BOYS BASKETBALL: Faulkner has made basketball matter at Columbia with run to Final Four

  • Columbia coach Steve Faulkner reacts as his team closes out a victory over Daytona Beach Mainland in Friday night’s Region 1-6A final. The win sent the Tigers to their first Final Four since 1968. (BRENT KUYKENDALL/Lake City Reporter)
    Columbia coach Steve Faulkner reacts as his team closes out a victory over Daytona Beach Mainland in Friday night’s Region 1-6A final. The win sent the Tigers to their first Final Four since 1968. (BRENT KUYKENDALL/Lake City Reporter)

    Football has always come first at Columbia.

    Aside from the softball team’s state championship in 2013, football has reigned supreme. Columbia’s been a football school — simple as that.

    Well, not anymore…