Pace beat Navarre 5-3 in the District 1-6A baseball tournament semifinals, guaranteeing the Patriots their ninth-straight trip to regionals and sending the Raiders home for the season.
Second-seeded Pace (18-9) will play top-seeded Tate, which beat Escambia 5-2 in the other semifinal Wednesday, today at Tate for the district championship. Both teams will compete in the Region 1-6A tournament that starts May 2.
Navarre finished the season with an 11-15 record.




