Sports Archive

Jessi Farrer found herself in a tight situation last Tuesday night, one enveloped in pressure, the Raiders clinging to one-run lead on the road against Choctaw.

It hadn’t been an easy night for Farrer, and she could have been rattled to the point of no return after giving up a home run earlier in the seventh inning.

Garrett Bagley stood in the center of R. Marion Craig Coliseum early Thursday evening, his arms folded, the look on his face saying it all.

Only now, here on a mid-April day in Port St. Joe, was the sting beginning to sink in that a dagger had been driven through the heart of Navarre’s state championship dream.

Ameer Rustom lets the javelin fly across the practice football field. Devin Wright unleashes a monstrous throw in the discus out behind Bennett C. Russell Stadium.

Caden Howard and Rachel Leggett are both fine tuning their high jumping ability and EJ Love has his sights set on preparing to run his fastest 100-meter times of the year.

Nearly a dozen Navarre athletes signed national letters of intent Wednesday afternoon during a signing day ceremony in the cafeteria.

Included in that group were a pair of NCAA Division I signees, Rachel Leggett (South Alabama) and Emma Simon (Alabama State).

Angel Rhodes took off down the field last Wednesday night, leaving the defenders behind her as she scored on a 56-yard catch-and-run play that gave Navarre its first points of the night in a flag football showdown with Pace.

It was a silver lining on a challenging night in which a slow start was too much to overcome in a 32-6 loss to the Patriots at Bennett C. Russell Stadium.

Just after 8 a.m. on a Friday morning, Navarre’s boys weightlifting team is hard at work, the focus all in on carving out a special place in school history.

Music blares over the speakers, the sound of weights clanking mixed in with it, the lifters encouraging and working with each other to make the most of this morning workout just days before the 3A state meet in Port St. Joe.

As Navarre’s girls lacrosse team walked off the field for the final time late Thursday night, there was, without question, pain from the sting of defeat, but that feeling was overwhelmed by the sense of pride the Raiders were feeling in the wake of how far they have come in 2022.

They played for a district championship for the first time in program history, facing area power Niceville for the title, and though the 13-4 loss here on a warm April evening at Eagle Stadium ended their season, they won’t let the loss define their season.

Davion Hardy hoped to get a shot to play college football. He had a couple of offers come his way and finally found a home.

The senior tight end for the Navarre Raiders announced on social media last week that he’s taking his talents to Warner University in Lake Wales.

Bri Edwards recalls the first meet of her college career at Florida.

A quad meet at home inside the O’Dome, which would be buzzing with excitement that evening in front of an electrified crowd, awaited the freshman out of Navarre.

A year ago, Jessi Farrer was the younger pitcher on Navarre’s softball team, playing behind and learning from the now graduated Rachel Hester.

This season, Farrer, junior, is the veteran on the staff while Kayden Riddle, a freshman, is learning the game at this level the way Farrer once learned from Hester.