Eddie Love Jr. is back at Navarre, the place it all started for him in high school, and he’s spending his final months as a high school athlete running track for the Raiders.
“To come back, it’s like friends and family. It feels like home. I definitely enjoy being back,” Love said.
Pace and Navarre remain two of the top flag football teams in Region 1-6A. The Patriots are ranked second in the region this week while the Raiders are seventh.
The two teams have gone head to head once already this season, with Pace prevailing 34-0 on March 3. They are slated to play again on March 24 at Pace.
The first shot Darius Cunningham Jr. made in a college game was a 3-pointer that went off the backboard.
“You don’t want to bank a shot in, but if it goes in, it goes in,” Cunningham said.
Navarre’s girls lacrosse team is in position to make the regional tournament for the first time as its in the top eight of the Region 1-2A rankings.
The Raiders are fourth in the region and 18th in the state.
Yalal Mustafa says a quick prayer before stepping onto the platform at the Navarre Invitational earlier this month for his latest lift. He then proceeds to crush the attempt.
It’s another highlight in what has been a good second year of weightlifting for the Navarre Raider standout, who has had to get used to quite a bit inside and outside the athletic world.
Rozlyn Palmer is looking forward to a big opportunity in lacrosse later this spring.
The Navarre Raider sophomore will represent her state in a USA Lacrosse National Tournament at UMass-Amherst in May.
Navarre softball standout Natalia Taylor has earned a little added recognition in the early part of the 2025 season.
Taylor has been named to the Premier Girls Fastpitch Regional Watch List.
There were no runs on the scoreboard for Navarre when Natalia Taylor crushed a home run off it in the first inning of a home game against Fort Walton Beach Tuesday night.
Though Navarre head weightlifting coach Garrett Bagley spent most of his time focused on running the Navarre Invitational on Wednesday, he saw enough from his own team to say the Raiders had a pretty good day.
Keyon Stoutemire’s success didn’t happen overnight.
A year after not seeing the field, Stoutemire burst onto the scene at LaGrange in 2024 as one of the top defensive players in the USA South Athletic Conference.
