The Wandering Disciple

The Sarasota area is known for a few talented marching bands. One of them is the Mighty Sailor Band from Sarasota High School. The Mighty Sailors are over 60 members strong and winners of several distinctions. Here is the 2014 band performing during a parade in downtown Sarasota. (Photo: November 11, 2014)

Although classes are no longer held in the historic Sarasota High building, the history of the building lives on. Built in 1926, it is the oldest school building in Sarasota. Classes were held here until the late 1990’s. Today it is being renovated to house the Sarasota Museum of Art. (Photo: December 12, 2004)

North Port, Florida: The Sarasota offense combined with a penalty happy officiating crew made for a rough night for the North Port Bobcats as they lost to the Sarasota Sailors 38-13 on Friday night at The Preserve at North Port High School. The Bobcats won the toss and elected to defer to the second half. The game looked to be a defensive battle as both teams exchanged punts on their first drives to start the game. But that was as close as it would be as Sailor offense jumped out to a big lead by scoring 24 unanswered points in the first half. The Sailors would march down the field to score on their second possession of the game. A 43 yard pass from Sage Hansard to Mack Dancer set up a 2 yard touchdown run by Marlon Mack to put the Sailors on the board 7-0. After exchanging stalling drives, the Sailors got the ball back via an interception. They marched down the field to score their second touchdown as Hansard went to the air to Marquis Zimmerman for a 1 yard touchdown pass to p...