Sports Archive

Shed Long could have gone in two directions when it came to playing  a sport at the professional level.

It was as if the running back had no idea what just hit him. One of those ‘Did you get the license number of that truck?’ plays.

For someone like Shaun Parcher, an athlete who has always been in that close but not quite category when it comes to track, getting to the regional is a big deal.

Austin Tebo couldn’t have asked for a better way for senior night to play out. He and fellow Navarre seniors Cade Taylor and Ryan Cocker went out winners in the final regular-season district game of their careers, the Raiders knocking off Crestview 5-1 Friday night.

It is, arguably, the most pressing question for the Navarre Raiders heading into spring football.

Going into the district playoffs, the Raiders will be fighting to end a three-game losing streak. They are getting great pitching and timely hitting. However, the defense, one of the team’s strong points, has recently lacked consistency. The Raiders lost three games this past week, all by one run. Errors have been the difference between a win and a loss.

Until his sophomore year, Nick Lightner didn’t play much tennis. Carson Whitley, on the other hand, has been playing the sport since he was a young child. His dad, Rob, after all, is the head coach.

Quentin Randolph played in the third spring game of his University of West Florida football career Saturday afternoon at Pen Air Field.

If there is a silver lining to the end of last week for Navarre’s baseball team it is that this team, a team with only three seniors, is going to leave it all on the field no matter who the opponent is.

Abigail Pantlitz leaned over on the track, a few feet away from the finish line she had just crossed in the 100-meter dash in a time of 12.65, her hands on her knees, trying to fight back the pain in her legs.