On a field still muddy after Friday’s downpour that caused the game to be postponed, Sarasota Out-of-Door Academy got a first-quarter touchdown by quarterback Brian Ragone and held on for a 6-0 victory over St. John Neumann on Tuesday afternoon.

The game was the District 1B-6 opener for both teams.

To read more on the game, click here.

East Lee County and Barron Collier will be without their quarterbacks Friday night. See who else is hurting by clicking here.

Taurus Johnson has found a new NFL home.

The Detroit Lions signed the former Cape Coral High School wide receiver to their practice squad Wednesday, according to scout.com.

Johnson, who played at the University of South Florida, was released by the Kansas City Chiefs prior to the start of the NFL season.

Mariner’s mascot Mr. Triton had picked up 74 votes as of 3:20 Tuesday afternoon to take the lead in The News-Press’ mascot survey. Fort Myers’ Tsunami Sam and Lely’s Trojan were tied for second with a distant 14 votes.

Look at the mascots photo gallery at news-press.com/sports then vote for your favorite at news-press.com/mascots.

Cape Coral High (4-0) is ranked No. 8 in Class 4A in this week’s Florida High School Football poll. Barron Collier (4-0) and Naples (3-1) were sixth and seventh, respectively, in Class 3A, while South Fort Myers High received five votes.

Evangelical Christian (3-0) moved up to No. 2 in the Class 1B poll.

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Make sure you take a look at our Southwest Florida high school mascot photo gallery at news-press.com/sports and then log on to vote for the mascot you think is the best at news-press.com/mascots. We’ll reveal the results of the voting next Tuesday.

St. John Neumann and Sarasota Out-of-Door Academy will make up their District 1B-6 game in Naples at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Neumann atheltic director and football coach Steve Howey announced in an e-mail on Saturday.
The game was called Friday night after a long delay due to inclement weather.

It was a long and wet night, but here are the stories for Friday night/Saturday morning’s games. And don’t forget to come back Saturday afternoon for the continuations of the North Fort Myers at Fort Myers, Palmetto Ridge at Estero and South Florida Prep at FCI games.

Friday night’s scores and stories:

Barron Collier 42, Lehigh 18

Dunbar 48, Gateway 0

Gulf Coast 38, Immokalee 26

Naples 33, East Lee 0

Lely 21, Golden Gate 7

Cape Coral 28, Port Charlotte 23

Clewiston 32, Island Coast 28

ECS 63, Moore Haven 6

Baker 37, Lakewood Ranch 8

First Baptist 56, Princeton Chr. 8

Woods Haven 52, SFCA 7

Lake Placid 20, LaBelle 18

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