JANUARY
A national coaches association recognized that Navarre High School’s 2011-2012 girls soccer team earned a Team Academic Award for its overall performance in the classroom. Last year’s Lady Raiders compiled a 3.53 team GPA.
In Rob Simon’s first year coaching at Navarre, the Raiders lost to Gulf Breeze both during the regular season and in the playoffs. Since then, there have been five years of ties. The Raiders finally broke through on Dec. 17 in an away contest, as the Raiders won in exciting fashion over Gulf Breeze, 5 – 4.
The Raiders boys soccer team split their games last week with a hard-fought 2 – 1 victory at Crestview on Dec. 17 followed by a 3 – 0 loss to Niceville at home on Dec. 19.
The Navarre Raiders boys basketball team was looking to keep their winning ways going when they played the Niceville Eagles at home on Dec. 17, but came up short when Niceville took a one-point lead with 11 seconds remaining in the game to win 56-55.
The Raiders once again dominated the competition as they won the Choctaw Invitational on Dec. 11 with 84 points. Their closest competitors Niceville and Choctaw scored 30 and 23 points respectively.
The Lady Raiders scored a 5 – 0 win on Dec. 10 at home against Fort Walton Beach. Three days later they played Bay at home and shut them out as well by an 8 – 0 score.
The Raiders proved to be road warriors last week as they traveled to Pace on Dec. 9 and Tate on Dec. 10 and came away with wins in both contests. The Raiders beat the Patriots 4 – 2 in a non-district game and the Aggies, 3 – 1 the next night in a district game.
