Not lost on our intrepid sports staff amid the recently completed ranking of Putnam County’s top 20 football teams over the last 40 years was the fact they played football here before 1980 – darned

The good news for Jenny Galvan is she will play college soccer.

See the boats jot the river on a spring or summer day. Then check out the amount of people who come in daily to Messer’s Westside Bait and Tackle on State Road 19 in Palatka.

The 1981 Palatka High School football season opened up with a win over a state champion team.

The season ended with a Palatka win for a state championship on the same field.

A state championship will put any team on a pedestal.

But the 1982 Palakta High School football team wanted to maintain that standing.

So it ultimately happened, three days after it should have happened in the first place.

The Melrose 12-and-under Babe Ruth Baseball All-Star team picked the wrong time to stop hitting.

PICK 2

Midday: 2-1. Evening: 2-0.

PICK 3

Midday: 9-6-2. Evening: 1-5-8.

PICK 4

The 1983 Palatka High School football season was already three games in and already the Panthers had lost more games than they had in the previous two seasons combined.

Three days after going full speed ahead with the fall sports season as scheduled, the Florida High School Athletic Association pumped the brakes on going forward with that plan on Thursday.