Alex Gilchrist tweeted in early May that he doesn’t want to be remembered by everyone. He just wants to help his Navarre teammates get a ring so that he can remember them.
Eight weeks from tonight the University of West Florida football team will open its 2018 season at home against Carson-Newman. The Argonauts are coming off a historic season, reaching the national championship in their second year of existence. Over the next eight weeks the Navarre Press will look back at last year’s big moments.
Mitch Nay had already hit a home run for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, a solo shot that tied the game against the Mississippi Braves at 1-1 in the second inning. And now he was at the plate in the eighth, two outs against his team, which trailed 2-1 with two strikes against him.
Sweat shows through the shirt of Navarre head coach Jay Walls and he’s not even out running plays on the sunbaked football field at Bennett C. Russell Stadium. All he’s doing is coaching.
Matt Cronin isn’t done playing baseball yet. His next stop is North Carolina. He arrived there this past weekend to join the Team USA College National team.
