Florida High School Football Scores: Miami Palmetto and St. Thomas Aquinas Win in Week 11
The final Friday of Florida's regular season brought a 17-9 win for Miami Palmetto at Naples, a 49-8 rout for Fort Lauderdale's St. Thomas Aquinas, and a 13-6 loss for North Miami Beach - with playoff brackets due Nov. 6.
Miami Palmetto closed the regular season with a road win on Friday night, beating Naples 17-9 in Week 11 of the Florida high school football season, according to the News-Press and Naples Daily News results report read by the Sports Desk. North Miami Beach fell 13-6 to St. John Neumann in another South Florida result from the same report.
In Broward County, St. Thomas Aquinas of Fort Lauderdale beat West Broward 49-8, a result carried in USA TODAY's Super 25 Week 11 roundup, which listed Miami's Columbus as idle this week. The same Southwest Florida report recorded Gulf Coast 48, Immokalee 24; Estero 65, Bonita Springs 14; Riverdale 38, Lehigh 0; South Fort Myers 55, Lely 0; and Key West 45, Barron Collier 21, among the Friday finals.
Week 11 was the final week of the Florida regular season for most teams, with a few Saturday games still to play. The FHSAA playoff brackets are to be revealed Nov. 6, according to the Naples News Week 11 preview, and the state championships are set for Pitbull Stadium in Miami - the next test for the South Florida teams that carried Friday night's form into the postseason.
