• Boyd Anderson is headed to the 6A FHSAA Final Four after defeating Miramar 56-55.  Senior Travis Elliott scored 16 points and had 15 rebounds to lead the Cobras.  Cobra Tvaughn Ferguson sank two free throws with 29.5 seconds remaining to give Boyd Anderson a 56-55 lead.  Miramar, which led by as many as 14 points with 6:09 remaining in the third quarter, had a chance to win in the closing seconds as it had three offensive rebounds before the Patriots Luis Dinolis hit the first of the run at the buzzer.

• Sun-Sentinel Water Polo – BCAA Teams to Watch

Boys Girls
St. Thomas Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas
Cypress Bay Deerfield Beach
Pembroke Pines Charter Hollywood Hills
Deerfield Beach Cypress Bay
Cardinal Gibbons Cardinal Gibbons
Fort Lauderdale
Flanagan

• Players to Watch – BCAA Water Polo

Boys
Giovanni Martino, St. Thomas Aquinas
Laurence Tummings, St. Thomas Aquinas
Brian Etchechury, Pembroke Pines Charter
Devan Petal, Deerfield Beach
Mike Marino, Cardinal Gibbons
Nicolas Alemann, Cypress Bay
Justin Kelly, Hollywood Hills

Girls
Kristen Plitnick, St. Thomas Aquinas
Samantha Veit, Northeast
Samantha Khalil, Hollywood Hills
Chelsea Dixon, St. Thomas Aquinas
Alex Sutton, Cardinal Gibbons
Casey Vanvoorheis, Flanagan
Alyssa Palmer, Deerfield Beach

• Two long respected friends of the BCAA will be inducted this year into the Florida High School Athletic Hall of Fame.  Pat McQuaid, athletic director and head baseball coach and sports writer/high school guru Larry Blustein will be inducted on April 25 at the Best Western Gateway Grand Hotel in Gainesville.  McQuaid has coached baseball at Nova since 1977, compiling a 750-278-2 record entering this year and winning two state championships and a national championship.  He was named the Florida Dairy Farmers Baseball Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2006, and was inducted into the Broward County Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
  
  Larry Blustein has covered high school sports in South Florida for 40 years.  He hosts a radio sports talk show on WQAM and is the Miami Herald’s football recruiting analyst.  Larry writes a weekly column for the BCAA web site, Blu’s Column.  Larry was recently inducted into the Florida Wrestling Hall of Fame after serving as public address announcer at the state wrestling finals for many years.

• Senior Dawnn Maye led Dillard High to their fifth state championship defeating Boca Ciega 53-44.  Maye, the tournament MVP, scored 25 points.  Maye resurrected Dillard from a 9-0 deficit in the first quarter scoring 11 for a 14-12 lead.  The Panthers never trailed again.  Dillard (26-4) had to fight off a stubborn Boca Ciega team throughout the second half.  The Pirates Kenya Joseph made a 3-pointer to pull her team within 34-33.  Dillard wouldn’t fold as it finished the third quarter on an 8-1 run to lead by eight.
  
  The Panthers also won titles in 1980, 1982, 2004, 2005, and now 2010.  Dillard High became the third program in state history to win at least five girls basketball championships.

• Jacinta Monroe, Stranahan alumni and FSU ladies basketball player, was named to the All Atlantic Coast Conference first team in women’s basketball.  Monroe is averaging a team high 13.4 points, 7.6 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game.  The Fort Lauderdale, FL native ranks ninth in scoring (13.4) in ACC games and second in rebounding (8.2).  Her 51.1 field goal percentage in conference games ranks among the top five in the ACC.

• Cardinal Gibbons linebacker Jarael Watson has signed with Northwood University.  Pompano Beach quarterback Chase McCallum has signed with Central Missouri.