Devin Wright and Ryan Hunt both played their high school football locally and now get a chance to do the same at the college level.
Wright has been with the Argos since graduating from Navarre in 2022. Hunt is a Milton alum and transferred in from Middle Tennessee State last season.
Navarre’s football team aims to bounce back this week after dropping its opener against Pensacola Catholic.
The Raiders will get their shot Friday night when they hit the road to face Choctaw at 7 p.m. at Joe Etheredge Stadium.
Jaya McDonald had a pretty good freshman year of golf with the Navarre Raiders.
She proved to be one of the area’s best and even made it to the regional tournament.
There were moments where Navarre might have been able to steal the momentum from Pace in a District 1-6A volleyball match Wednesday night at home.
But in the end, it never happened as the Raiders were swept by the Patriots in a rematch of last year’s regional quarterfinal.
Grady Kelly didn’t need much time to adapt to the football side of things when he arrived at Michigan State in the spring.
And while he has joined a new football program for the third time in his college career, he felt welcomed from the jump in East Lansing.
Navarre and Pace competed in a meet with Gulf Breeze last Thursday at the Pullum YMCA in Navarre.
The Raiders won the girls side of the meet while Pace placed third. In the boys meet, Pace prevailed and Navarre took third.
Navarre’s own Quentin Randolph capped his storybook season by helping the Vegas Knight Hawks win their first Indoor Football League national championship in franchise history.
Positives can be found beneath the disappointment of a Navarre Raider comeback effort that fell a little short in Friday’s season opener against Pensacola Catholic.
Like the two touchdown catches by Brody Powers. Or the big-time defensive plays by Zeke Burgess. And don’t forget about the third-quarter throw from Roman Marshall to an open Marquez White for a touchdown, reviving hope for a Raider win on a humid August evening.
