Michael Sandle continues to be effective at the plate for the Frontier League’s Windy City Thunderbolts.
Sandle has appeared in 83 games this season for the Thunderbolts, batting .279.
Bryce Wheeler remembers going to Navarre Raider football games when he was younger and watching Grady Kelly dominate on Friday nights.
Kelly is now a defensive lineman at Michigan State and Wheeler has drawn comparisons to one of the school’s all-time greats.
Quentin Randolph is having the greatest season of his pro football career, and that has not gone unnoticed as the former Navarre Raider has been named an All-Indoor Football League selection.
Randolph, who has shined in the bright lights of Las Vegas for the Knight Hawks, earned first team honors on Saturday.
Navarre head football coach Garrett Bagley gathered his team in the locker room after Friday night’s Kickoff Classic against Pensacola was canceled and told the players to flip the negative into a positive.
As much as they wanted to play ball against an actual opponent under the lights at Bennett C. Russell Stadium, even if it was the preseason, they had to move on and get ready for next week’s season opener.
Former Navarre Raider Tyrell Marshall didn’t play his freshman football season at the University of West Florida, though it wasn’t an empty season by any stretch of the imagination.
Marshall still put in work in practice and learned a lot along the way.
Rey Ortiz isn’t sure what he’d be doing in the summer months if he wasn’t running for the Navarre Xpress track club.
A standout high school athlete for the Navarre Raiders, Ortiz said the AAU track experience has made a world of difference.
The wait is over for the Navarre Raiders to face off against someone other than themselves on the football field.
Navarre will take on Pensacola Friday in a Kickoff Classic at 7:30 p.m. at Bennett C. Russell Stadium.
