Lake Worth looking to end playoff drought
It’s been three years since Lake Worth earned a berth in the state playoffs, and the Trojans have not won a playoff game in 31 years. The drought could end this season. The Trojans return seven starters on both sides of the ball, including third-year quarterback Evan Moore, a junior who has shown steady progress since being given the starting position his freshman year. “That showed a lot as a freshman coming in and starting and taking his lumps and being thrown to the wolves, but he took it and each week, each year, he has gotten better,” Lake Worth coach Errick Lowe said of Moore. Lake Worth was in position to lock up a playoff berth last year, but lost its final district game to crosstown rival John I. Leonard that eliminated the Trojans from the playoffs. Santaluces is the defending district champion, but as Lowe said: “It’s a wide-open district, and the [Trojans] are hungry for this district championship.”
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West Boca Raton, which has one of the area’s best kickers in senior Mauro Bondi, gets the nod as the favorite in the county’s other Class 5A district, but coach Chris Romano has done a solid job rebuilding the program at Wellington, and the Wolverines could be a sleeper team this season. Of course, everyone knows that the road to Orlando and the 5A state championship game goes through St. Thomas Aquinas, which happens to be in the same region as West Boca and Wellington.
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