Windermere baseball wins third straight Metro Conference championship

The Wolverines topped Timber Creek High, 13-3, for the conference crown and continue their fantastic form in 2024.

By Sam Albuquerque
| 6:15 a.m. April 21, 2024

Windermere High baseball beat Timber Creek High for the Metro Conference championship.

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After a 13-3 win over Timber Creek High on Friday, April 19, the Windermere High baseball team has taken home the Metro Conference championship trophy for the third consecutive season.

Not only has Windermere won the Metro Conference title, but it is also currently on a 12-game winning streak; having not lost a game for more than a month, losing to Winter Springs High on March 19, 2-1.

Overall this regular season, Windermere has been phenomenal on the diamond; currently holding a 20-3 record. Of those three losses, two of them came by only two combined runs — the one-run loss to Winter Springs and an extra innings one-run loss to Lake Minneola.

Windermere has two more games in the regular season — both against Hagerty High, home Wednesday, April 24, and on the road Thursday, April 25— before the district playoffs start state-wide on April 29.

Sam Albuquerque

A native of João Pessoa, Brazil, Sam Albuquerque moved in 1997 to Central Florida as a kid. After earning a communications degree in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, he started his career covering sports as a producer for a local radio station, ESPN 580 Orlando. He went on to earn a master’s degree in editorial journalism from Northwestern University, before moving to South Carolina to cover local sports for the USA Today Network’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah, newborn son, Noah, and dog named Skulí.