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There was a point late in the third quarter when things got a little tight for Navarre in its season-opening game against Escambia Monday night.

Once ahead by double digits, the Raiders now led by just two late in the third quarter and managed to stay in front moving forward into the fourth as they hung on for a 53-47 over the Gators in Pensacola.

Navarre’s boys soccer team is currently 3-2 on the season and is under the direction of first-year head coach James Baccarini.

The Raiders have 20 players on this year’s roster.

Tommy Leggett was all but ignored by recruiters coming out of Navarre High. But that never stopped the former Raider football standout from believing in himself.

Four years later, Leggett is in a position most doubted he’d ever be in, standing tall as a captain and a starting safety for the Red Raiders.

Jada Thomas said she didn’t want to push herself too much in the first girls weightlifting meet of the season last Wednesday afternoon.

But being the competitor that she is, the senior attempted a few bonus lifts to test her strength.

Chants of Let’s Go Raiders boomed from the visitor’s section of Jack Foster Stadium.

Along the sideline, Navarre’s football players showed an extra bounce in their step, raising their helmets in the air in the final minutes of a 30-13 road win over Crestview.

Navarre’s girls soccer team split its two preseason matches last week at the NYSA Soccer Complex.

The Raiders knocked off rival Gulf Breeze 5-3 last Wednesday but lost 4-3 to West Florida Saturday.

Every so often Navarre head girls basketball coach Abby Fogg will remind her team of the gut-wrenching ending to last season.

That district tourney semifinal against Pace she references went to three overtimes, and ultimately it was a 17-of-29 showing from the free-throw line that doomed the Raiders’ upset bid in an 81-74 loss.

Luke Losquadro played football until his freshman year of high school at Navarre.

A tough day at practice changed everything.

Maybe I missed the memo. Maybe I was left off the press release list that was sent out by the Florida High School Athletic Association.

Or maybe I just need to clean out my email because an important one from the FHSAA is buried under the rubble of other emails that include requests for your checking account number so that you can have $100,000 deposited into your bank today.