Sports Archive

Raiders 4, Panthers 3

In order for the third-seeded Navarre Raiders softball team to play for the district championship, it had to win against rival Milton last Tuesday night.

Michael Sandle had already extended his hit streak to five games an inning earlier. He was now up to bat one final time for the University of South Alabama on a sunny and warm Sunday afternoon at Stanky Field in Mobile.

None of the players on Navarre’s softball team had played for a district championship until last week.

The Navarre baseball team’s last week of the regular season had one ugly outing followed by a shutout performance, and then capped off the week with a lopsided final game. 

Two years into his job as the head coach of Navarre’s track team, Tony Carter has the program on the right track. Literally.

Marlon Courtney is having the football tossed in his direction from Navarre head coach Jay Walls after spring practice Wednesday evening.

Chasing a berth in the state track meet doesn’t come without putting forth an effort in which limits are pushed to another level.

Navarre’s softball team won only 10 games two years ago but has been a much different team the last two years. The Raiders have 15 wins in 2019 and 32 over the last two seasons.

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.