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Western junior Ali Solo delivered exactly what the doctor ordered Saturday afternoon as she tossed a two-hit shutout and the Wildcats topped Seminole 2-0 for the Class 7A girls softball state championship game at the Legends Way Ball Fields in Clermont. Solo, who has been battling a cold for the past two weeks, pitched a gem as she struck out nine and retired the last 11 batters she faced in a 90-minute game.

Months after a Fort Lauderdale woman went missing in Spain, a grand jury indicted her husband on kidnapping charges, prosecutors announced Friday. Meanwhile, his defense attorney has filed a motion arguing for his release from a Miami prison. The motion and a recent cross examination bring new details to light about what might — or might not — have happened the day that Ana Knezevich disappeared in Madrid.

GAINESVILLE — The Florida softball team’s 12-game winning streak carried it to the cusp of a trip to the WCWS. The Gators (50-13) now have to bounce back from their first loss in a month, a 5-2 decision Saturday against Baylor during Game 2 of the NCAA Super Regionals. “I don’t even remember what it was like it’s been so long,” star shortstop Skylar Wallace said. Coach Tim Walton, vying for his 12th trip to Oklahoma City, is confident his players will respond. “We’ve done it all year,” he said.

A member of the United States Special Operations Command Parachute Team comes in for a landing on Fort Lauderdale Beach during the Great American Beach Party on Saturday, May 25, 2024. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)People cheer as the United States Special Operations Command Parachute Team comes in for a landing on Fort Lauderdale Beach during the Great American Beach Party on Saturday, May 25, 2024.

MIAMI GARDENS — Dominican-born undrafted rookie offensive lineman Bayron Matos had an interesting — but essential — first English phrase learned when he moved to the United States at 17 years old: “I’m hungry.” “Every time somebody used to ask me something, I say, ‘I’m hungry,’ ” he explained at Miami Dolphins rookie minicamp earlier this month, where he went back and forth answering questions in English and Spanish. “B, ‘how are you?’ I say, ‘I’m hungry.’ “B, ‘you’re going to school today?’… ‘I’m hungry.’ “That’s my answer to everything, for like seven months.” Now, Matos’ hunger comes in the form of trying to make the Dolphins’ roster this offseason as a tackle prospect with an infectious personality who never played a down on the offensive line in college at USF. To make it would make him the first NFL player born in the Dominican Republic to accomplish such a feat. “Not just as a Dominican, but representing all Latin America,” he said in Spanish.

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