Sports Archive

Called into his head coach’s office at Florida A&M before the start of baseball season, Octavien Moyer learned his scholarship money was going to be increased.

Taylor Grzelakowski played his college baseball at a school that shares a name with a music icon. That would be NAIA Madonna University in Michigan.

A day filled with impressive feats of strengths, high fives, fist bumps, celebratory jumps for joy, big embraces and even a little frustration when a lift didn’t go quite right, boiled down now to one final moment at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach.

Jacobi Smith was almost brought to tears by the fact that he and his fellow seniors have helped put the Navarre boys weightlifting program on the map, leading the Raiders to a 2A state championship Friday at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach.

Pressure reached a boiling point late Thursday night. Navarre found itself on the brink of disappointment in a softball showdown at home against Milton, its two-run lead no longer as safe as it once seemed to be.

Navarre’s baseball team barely missed on sweeping Niceville last week.

Abigail Pantlitz helped carry Navarre’s girls track team to a third-place finish at the District 2-3A meet Friday at Emerald Coast Middle School in Santa Rosa Beach.

Navarre’s flag football team came out on fire but cooled off late in a 13-12 loss to county rival Gulf Breeze on the road Wednesday night.

Josh Carter admits there were moments when he wondered if the hard work would pay off. That it would lead him down a path to another state championship in the 219-pound weight class.

Brian Schales stepped up to the plate in the fourth inning last Wednesday night, already with one hit to his credit in this home opener for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, and he looked ready to deliver again.