High School Sports

Live updates: 2024 Manatee County high school football scores in Week 1

Lakewood Ranch makes their entrance through a tunnel to play Manatee at Lakewood Ranch stadium on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.
Lakewood Ranch makes their entrance through a tunnel to play Manatee at Lakewood Ranch stadium on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. ttompkins@bradenton.com

High school football has returned.

The regular season begins Friday with various Manatee County teams in action.

It’s a new era with name, image, likeness (NIL) underway across the state and four of the county’s seven public schools have different coaches than last season.

Here’s a look at Week 1 games:

  • Bayshore at St. Petersburg Catholic

  • Braden River at Gainesville

  • Lakewood Ranch vs. Englewood Lemon Bay

  • Manatee vs. Lake Minneola

  • Palmetto at Tampa Alonso
  • Parrish Community at North Port

  • Southeast vs. Brooksville Central
  • Saint Stephen’s at Oviedo Master’s Academy
  • IMG Academy White vs. Episcopal School of Dallas
  • Corner Canyon (Draper, Utah) 35, IMG Academy National 34 (Thursday)

Swipe below for scores involving Bradenton area programs:

Jason Dill
Bradenton Herald
Jason Dill is a sports reporter for the Bradenton Herald. He’s won Florida Press Club awards since joining in 2010. He currently covers restaurant, development and other business stories for the Herald. 
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