Sports Archive

Central School’s Girls Volleyball Team, the Lady Jags, left Friday for their first game of the Final Four for the state 1As. They are 1A regional champions. They will play Pierson at 2 p.m. Saturday at Pierson Middle/High School in Pierson, Florida. If they win that, they go to Fort Myers Wednesday to play the finals Thursday.

Their record is currently 17-10 and they are ranked #3 for 1A in the state.

Few words are needed to hype up the looming Gulf South Conference showdown between the University of West Florida and Valdosta State Saturday afternoon at Blue Wahoos Stadium.

The meaning of this game goes beyond that. The numbers say it all. And the stakes for this battle between two of the premier teams in NCAA Division II football speak for themselves.

Rachel Leggett drove into the lane and took a shot. It was slightly blocked, but she grabbed her own rebound and put it back in for another two points.

Leggett pumped her fist and embraced teammate Mickey Vollmer as they celebrated the moment early on in a preseason battle with Pine Forest Wednesday night.

Nearly a year has passed since Navarre’s boys soccer team has experienced the thrill of victory. It was Jan. 14, 2021, when the Raiders were last on the winning side of the scoreboard in a game.

A blanket quarantine followed, canceling the last two weeks of the regular season.

Jessica Farrer took off on a breakaway opportunity with a chance to put Navarre in front of Pace on the scoreboard. Then the defense closed in and robbed her of that chance.

Two minutes later, when Farrer was presented with another shot at scoring, she capitalized, and it proved to be the difference in a season-opening win over the Patriots.

No one needs to tell Rachel Leggett twice that the expectations are at a new level for the Navarre girls basketball team.

After winning a district championship for the first time since 2016 and making an historic run to the Elite Eight, the target that was starting to appear on the backs of the Raiders the last few years has now grown to the point where it’s hard to miss.

Navarre will be well-represented in the NCAA Division I women’s soccer tournament.

Three former Raiders are on teams playing in the postseason, with two squaring off against each other in the opening round as Emily Madril and Florida State will take on Hailey Bastian and South Alabama.

Four top 10 finishes highlighted Navarre’s performance at the Region 1-3A swim meet last Wednesday at the Morcom Aquatic Center in Tallahassee.

Leading the way was the girls 400 Freestyle Relay team of Jenna Cavanaugh, Grace Koch, Ava Parker and Claire Sczesny. The team finished ninth overall in a time of 3:57.16.

Emilia Collins was getting set for a bonus lift in the bench press Thursday afternoon when head coach Garrett Bagley called for her teammates to come over and watch Collins in action.

It wasn’t going to count in her final tally. The Navarre standout hit 265 for her final actual bench press.