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A year after winning 37 games and capturing the Gulf South Conference championship, the University of West Florida baseball team is picked to win the GSC crown.

The Argos went 37-11 a year ago and advanced to the NCAA tournament.

Self-motivated all season, Navarre’s girls weightlifting team went into the District 1-3A meet and accomplished its mission.

For the 17th consecutive year, the Raiders hoisted another district title, and the feeling never gets old.

Navarre remains ranked ninth in Region 1-6A and keeps its hopes alive of earning a trip to the regional tournament.

The region is considered the toughest in the state as four of the teams are ranked in the top 10.

It might just be the showdown of the regular season when Navarre’s girls basketball team travels to Okaloosa County to battle Fort Walton Beach Wednesday night.

Ranked eighth in the state and third in the region, the Raiders (18-2) take aim at revenge and the opportunity to stay in the hunt for the No. 1 seed in the Region 1-6A tournament.

Caitlin Tilton has been a key contributor for Navarre’s softball team since her freshman year and has always hoped to play the sport in college.

She’ll get her chance after signing with Coastal Alabama North earlier this month.

Up until last Tuesday night, Pace’s girls soccer team had been on a roll. The Patriots were unbeaten in their last four games, tying state powerhouse Niceville while winning their last three.

But the Patriots didn’t have an answer for Navarre after closing the gap to 3-2 at Bennett C. Russell Stadium. The Raiders scored the next three goals as Pace lost for the first time since Dec. 10.

As Navarre’s girls weightlifting team prepares for another run at a state championship, starting with Wednesday’s District 1-3A meet in Niceville, head coach Garrett Bagley likes where things stand with his team heading into it.

Bagley said the team has progressed the way he hoped it would this season as it built toward the most important part of the season.

Abby Fogg talked to her team just before the start of the fourth quarter Friday night, her team’s once comfortable lead now trimmed to four.

Eighth-ranked Navarre was on the brink of being upset by rival Milton, and Fogg wanted to make sure the Raiders did what they needed to do to avoid it.

Jonathan Recinos chased down the Bay ball handler with every last ounce of energy he had and executed a perfect slide tackle, erasing a potential game-tying goal for the Tornadoes, the player falling to the ground and the ball rolling out of bounds.

In a soccer season that hasn’t been easy for Navarre’s boys soccer team, this was the one game Recinos wasn’t going to see end in defeat. Not here at Bennett C. Russell Stadium and not on senior night.

Emma Simon has grown up around the game of soccer, and for the last four seasons at Navarre, her dad, Rob, has been her coach.

That connection made senior night extra special for Simon, who, after the game basked in the glory of a 6-2 win over Pace with her teammates on a chilly January evening at Bennett C. Russell Stadium.