Lakewood Ranch trio will walk on at SCF baseball team

Andrew McNett, Shane Davidson and Reggie Lindsey, three promising Lakewood Ranch High baseball players, will walk-on and compete for a position on the State College of Florida baseball team next season.

Each member of this trio showed he can swing the bat and are versatile players who can fill in at a variety of positions.

A second baseman, McNett batted .453 with 23 RBIs in 33 games while earning All-Area honors. He showed some power with two homers and had a .632 slugging percentage while stealing 13 bases.

Davidson, the Mustangs third baseman, finished with a .388 batting average, had 19 runs-batted-in and a .533 on base percentage. He showed his speed and base running savvy by stealing 14 bases in 15 attempts.

Lindsey was headed into his third year as the Mustangs starting quarterback when the football season started and missed nearly the entire year with a wrist injury.

He might have been able to catch on somewhere as a receiver, but the outfielder said he wants to give baseball a serious try. He finished last season with a .303 batting average and drove in 13 runs while scoring 20.

Ranch's Lindsey appears back to normal

The Lakewood Ranch High football team didn’t win its spring game against Cape Coral Island Coast, but the Mustangs had some things to feel good about.

At the top of the list is their quarterback Reggie Lindsey. It was his first live game action since breaking his jaw in a baseball game a few months ago and there was concern about that would affect his play.

Lindsey took some tough hits, didn’t shy away from contact and appeared to back to his normal self on the football field. The biggest problem for the rising senior was Island Coast defensive end Aaron Lynch, who has been offered by nearly all the top notch programs in the country, including Florida.

The 6-6, 255 pound Lynch, hounded Lindsey all night, recording three sacks for 49 yards and forced the quarterback into a fumble in his own endzone that Island Coast recovered for a touchdown.

Island Coast has one of the top defensive fronts in the state and Lakewood Ranch head coach Shawn Trent knew it would be tough to run the ball against the Gators. It put a lot of extra pressure on Lindsey to make things. He had a few nice plays, but the big thing was that he did show any ill effects from his baseball injury.

The worst news for Lakewood Ranch was that defensive back Zach Larson separated his shoulder on the first play of the game and will be in a sling for about two months. It means he will miss a lot of the summer workouts and baseball he was planning to play.