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Three years ago on a hot and humid Monday afternoon in early September, Josh Allen is on the football practice field behind Bennett C. Russell Stadium.

He’s a senior at Navarre and wasn’t feeling well on game day. So he sat it out, a rare occasion for someone who had only been absent from school one day in his life.

Chase Richardson and Alex Woodall didn’t expect their one-year run with the competitive cheer team at Navarre to lead them down a path to a college scholarship.

Yet, that’s exactly what happened for the Raider seniors as both have signed national letters of intent to continue their careers at Florida Gulf Coast.

Navarre is in search of a new baseball coach.

That search is underway after Chris Williams announced he was stepping down. He just completed his third season as the head coach.

Former Navarre Raider Matt Cronin is moving up the ranks in minor league baseball.

Cronin has been promoted to Triple-A Rochester after a strong showing with Double-A Harrisburg.

Even after Kyle Chambers had his senior football season cut short in early November because of an injury, he never stopped believing he was going to get an opportunity to play college football.

“I never really felt like it was the end. I had certain schools interested in me from camps and other showcases, so I had confidence that I was going to continue on to a collegiate program,” Chambers said.

Sebastian Melendez isn’t done playing football yet.

The Navarre Raider senior is taking his talents to NCAA Division III Millsaps this fall.

A big weekend of camps is ahead at the University of West Florida in early July.

The Argos will host a Friday Night Lights camp on July 8 and then a Specialist Show Out camp on July 10. That same day, UWF will have a Sunday Night Showdown camp.

Michael Sandle is on the bus with the Asheville Tourists, who are headed out on a Monday afternoon for a 173-mile trip over to Greensboro to play a series against the Grasshoppers.

These bus rides across the south to places like Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Rome, Georgia, are part of life in the minor leagues, but it’s a life the former Navarre Raider multi-sport star embraces.

EJ Love dodged a few tackles and found the end zone on two different occasions, getting lifted into the air by one of his offensive lineman after scoring his first touchdown of the night in Friday’s spring game against Gulf Breeze.

Those two touchdowns were the only ones of the night for the Raiders in the varsity half of the game at Bennett C. Russell Stadium, with Navarre losing that half 28-7 before winning the second half of the game by a 14-7 score.