Sports Archive

Here in the sixth inning of a game where victory appeared to be out of reach, Navarre’s softball team came to life and seemed to have the wheels in motion for a comeback win.

Trailing by four runs, the Raiders scored twice, including once off a sacrifice fly by Kayden Riddle that sliced the Orange Beach lead to two.

Derek Percivalle was selected for not one, but two all-star games. He couldn’t play in the football all-star game in December due to his commitment to hoops season.

But two weeks ago in Pensacola, the standout Navarre athlete played in the Pensacola Sports Association All-Star basketball game.

Renee Harris-Toliver is a year older and has more experience as she gets rolling with another year on the Navarre track team.

Nearly a month into the season, the junior standout is in a good place.

Cheyenne Beasley did her best to deal with the physicality of an early-season showdown with Fort Walton Beach Wednesday night at Bennett C. Russell Stadium.

Visibly showing her frustration at times, Beasley kept getting up and going after it, doing what she could to help Navarre come out with a win.

Tyler Hymel is focused on making the most of his senior tennis season at Navarre.

He believes the work he put in during the offseason has been instrumental in achieving that goal.

Navarre’s baseball team went into spring break still searching for its first win of the year.

The Raiders nearly had that initial victory last Thursday night, falling just shy of the win column in a 2-1 loss to Pine Forest.

Renee Hester didn’t flinch under pressure.

She stood at the plate in the seventh inning and swung the bat, sending the ball into the outfield for a game-winning, walk-off double that lifted Navarre’s softball team to a thrilling 5-4 win over Pensacola Catholic Thursday night.

Four records were broken, including two by Kamal Rustom, as Navarre rolled to a win in its own weightlifting invitational Wednesday night.

Rustom, who competes in the 154-pound weight class, was the pound for pound champion and set invitational records for clean and jerk and overall total. He was one of five lifters to win his respective weight class.

Abby Fogg was watching youth girls basketball one day over at NYSA and took notice of one of the players. That moment painted a picture of what Raider girls basketball has come to mean in Navarre.

“I complimented this little girl and her mother reached out and said ‘you just made her whole night,’” said Fogg, the head coach of the girls basketball team. “I was laughing because four years ago someone would have been like ‘oh that’s the girls basketball coach.’”