NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Are you ready for some football? Well, if you're a Cudas fan, you'll have to wait until Saturday because tonight's game against Pine Ridge is cancelled because of heavy rain over the best two days that has drenched the field at New Smyrna Beach Stadium. Instead the 7 p.m. game with Pine Ridge will be played at Pine Ridge Stadium in Deltona. In the meantime, you can enjoy highlights from New Smyrna Beach High's home opener against Astronaut of Titusville.

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Highly-ranked Bulldogs even tougher foe

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Aganst Astronaught of Titusville, the Cudas offensive front was no match for the overpowering defense. The difference: Sheer size and speed. The Cudas need to put the home opener loss behind them and be ready for a team tonight at home that could be even better: DeLand.

Astronaut of Titusville 36 New Smyrna Beach 17

NSBNews.net photos by Sera Frederick / The New Smyrna Beach High School Cudas (in the black uniforms) were only a touchdown down at halftime, but Astronaut High of Titusville, pulled away for an easy win, 36-17 at New Smyrna Beach Stadium.  

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Cudas came up short in their home opener against Astronaut of Titusville, ranked eighth in the state Friday night, but there was something to cheer about: The Cheerleaders!

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Cudas host Titusville tonight at New Smyrna Beach Stadium

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Cudas take to the field tonight with second-year coach Lance Jenkins against the Titusville Astronaut squad at New Smyrna Beach Stadium. If Tuesday night's attendance at New Smyrna Beach High School for athletics night was any indication, tonight's home opener should be rocking.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Joey Logano took the checkered flag Friday in a last-lap crash-marred Jalapeno 250 at Daytona International Speedway.

Logano, whose No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota rolled off 40th due to an unapproved adjustment after qualifying, survived a spin in lap 27 and paired up with Jason Leffler with 30 laps to go.

Courtesy photo / NASCAR Sprint Cup driver parachuted to Daytona International Speedway to help promote July's Coke Zero 400 race.

DAYTONA BEACH -- NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Brian Vickers is known to fly around the high banks of Daytona International Speedway in a race car so when he skydived from a plane Wednesday he gave new meaning to flying on the track.

Vickers skydived solo into the legendary infield of the "World Center of Racing" from a jumping height of 5,000 feet.

Photos by Henry Frederick / These boats were part of the Memorial Day weekend extravaganza in New Smyrna Beach's Intracoastal Waterway, which drew several thousand people to Riverside Park for the various fishing tournaments under the umbrella known as FishStock 2011. NSBNews.net was there for the local coverage.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Many fishing enthusiasts went home happy Sunday afternoon at the conclusion of the gigantic FishStock 2011 at Riverside Park.

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Courtesy photo / Cubby says "play ball'' and WSBB radio in New Smyrna Beach will have all the action, both home and away for the upcoming season of the Daytona Cubs who call Jackie Robinson Stadium home.

DAYTONA BEACH -- The Daytona Cubs and New Smyrna Beach-based WSBB radio will partner up for the 2011 season to make AM 1230 the new and official "Voice of the Daytona Cubs." 

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Photos courtesy of the Smyrna Safari Club / Tadpole surfing will be held April 2 south of the Ponce Inlet jetty in New Smyrna Beach, part of a four-day Kona Pro Surf Contest, that begins March 31. This photo shows an unidentified mom and her child in the New Smyrna Beach surf, practicing for the tadpole contest

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The community's youngest surfers have been given the nickname of tadpoles, which Webster's Dictionary defines as a small creature with external gills that undergoes a metamorphosis to adult.

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EDGEWATER -- The New Smyrna Beach High School swim team has lost its pool at the Aqua Park Aquatic Center and as a result may fold, according to a story by WESH-TV in Orlando.