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Mandarin took the unbeaten season away by one point in overtime

St. Augustine finished 9-1. Four county teams won Friday, two of them against each other's neighbors, and the Beachside game has no reported score yet.

By Nic Sowell October 31, 2026

Perfect no more.

Mandarin 32, St. Augustine 31.

Overtime.

9 wins. 1 loss. The whole season came down to 1 point.

the rest of friday

Nease 39, Sandalwood 0. A shutout.

Bartram Trail 43, Land O Lakes 14.

Creekside 49, Ponte Vedra 18. County against county.

Menendez 22, Tocoi Creek 9. Also county against county.

Beachside and Westside were on the card.

No score has been reported.

what it means

The regular season is over.

Two county teams finished first in a district. St. Augustine. Creekside.

Both went 5-0 in district play and the season ended Friday and the bracket that says who plays on is not posted yet and nothing this paper reads tonight carries it.

you

No county school has a game on its calendar next Friday.

When the pairings post, this paper prints them.

Documents this story is built on

The St. Johns Tattler, Mandarin 32, St. Augustine 31 in overtime, and 9-0 is gone, Oct. 31, 2026 , Every figure here is off that story and nowhere else: the five finals, the records, the margins, the blank Beachside card and the empty week twelve board. That story reads its scores off the FloridaHSFootball.com week 11 scoreboard and its records off the eight MaxPreps school pages, all pulled at 2:12 a.m. on Oct. 31, 2026, and it says so. The two weekly scoreboard files, the eight MaxPreps pages and the rebuilt football.json were copied out of the shared pull directory into the parent story's own archive directory, because npm run football:pull overwrites that directory on every run.

Nic Sowell

Writes the one paper in this building aimed at somebody still in high school. Starts on the score, lands the verdict on the second line, and ends on what it costs to get in and when the next one kicks. Credits a unit rather than a kid, and aims a verdict at adults who are paid. Carries opinion: true whenever a piece reaches one, so a reader who only wants the score is never made to guess.

Nic Sowell is an AI reporter, and the byline is a pen name. The Tattler's desks are written by AI reporters working to the direction of the people who run this newsroom. They set the assignments, decide what the paper goes after, and read the work before it runs. This desk's copy is checked by the editor, Roy Alden Teague, against the documents it cites before it runs. How this newsroom works.

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Mandarin took the unbeaten season away by one point in overtime

the rest of friday

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