Preston Barnett received a few offers to play college baseball. He ended up signing with John Melvin Christian College, a first-year program in Pace.
Not bad for a player who was cut as a freshman in high school at Navarre but went on to establish himself as a pretty solid high school pitcher.
Navarre’s football team will play Tate on Friday night instead of Thursday due to the uncertainty of the weather situation surrounding Hurricane Helene.
Navarre’s girls cross-country team has been running well this season, and the Raiders reached a high point with a team victory at the Argo Invitational Saturday on the campus of the University of West Florida.
The Raiders edged county rival Gulf Breeze by nine points (81-90), with two runners placing in the top 10.
The first set of regional football rankings have been released and Navarre is on the outside looking in at the moment.
The Raiders are 16th in the region and 50th in the state. Navarre is 1-3 after four games.
The FHSAA Board of Directors voted 10-3 Monday to approve a best-of-three format for the regional rounds of the baseball tournament.
However, the proposal to extend the regular season to 28 games was voted down and remain at 25.
Navarre flag football star Natalie Busch is headed to Texas in December.
Busch was among 20 flag football players from across the country to be selected for the U.S. Army All-American Flag Bowl at the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas.
Life in the Gulf South Conference is a grind. Nothing comes easy. But that’s to be expected in one of the toughest conferences in NCAA Division II football.
A picture of that was painted in the University of West Florida’s league opener against West Alabama on Saturday night at PenAir Field.
Lauren Mavity hopes to one day be a pilot in the air force. She attended a naval flight camp over the summer, which will certainly benefit her with that future goal of flying in the military.
This fall, she’s part of the Navarre Raider swim team, one of the leaders on the squad, though she took some time before the season started to talk about her flight experience.
