Sports Archive

Navarre’s football team is playing on the road for the second consecutive week as the Raiders take on Pensacola Catholic Friday night.

Game time is 7:30 p.m. And the Raiders go into it looking for their first win of the season.

Gabby Cover’s older sister played golf, and that inspired her to give it a try.

Now a senior on the Navarre Raider golf team, Cover is glad she got into the sport.

Navarre, Pace and Milton competed at the Amy Wolfenden Invitational on Saturday at the University of West Florida Aquatic Center.

It was another big day of running for Santa Rosa County teams as athletes took part in the Gulf Coast Stampede on Saturday at the Escambia County Equestrian Center in Pensacola.
There were more than 150 runners on the girls side and more than 250 in the boys race on a hot and humid morning.

High school golfers in Santa Rosa County got their first big test of the season on Monday, playing in the Byron Nathan Classic at Stonebrook.

Golfers played 18 holes for the first time this season in live competition, battling not only the course but also the hot and humid conditions enveloping the day here in Pace.

Time to look back at week four of the high school football season.

Pace bounced back this past Friday while Navarre and Milton both lost their district openers.

It could have been a throw in the towel kind of night for Navarre’s football team in its District 1-5A opener against Niceville.

The Raiders were 0-3 and lost by 38 points to Milton a week earlier. They certainly had built-in reasons to fold.

Thunder could be heard off in the distance on an overcast and humid afternoon at Stonebrook.

But Pace, Navarre and Milton were able to play their golf match on Thursday despite the threat of bad weather in Pace.

One thing Soundside head football coach Jay Walls knows for sure now is that his team won’t go 0-10.

The Hurricanes won their first game in program history on Sept. 8, beating Milton 7-0.

The road doesn’t get any easier this week as Navarre’s football team hits the road to play Niceville Friday night.