Sports Archive

Raider Games is an exceptional event for exceptional students. Held Friday at Bennett C. Russell Stadium, home of Navarre High School’s football, soccer, and track and field teams, Raider Games isn’t about winning and losing. The games are about what games should be about – playing.

JACKSONVILLE – Sixty-four boys’ teams scored points Friday at the FHSAA Class 3A State Track and Field Championships, including Navarre High School – with one half of one point.

Runners Laura and Stephen Pifer met at the University of Colorado, where both competed for the Buffaloes. A few years later, the couple is married and raising sons Jameson, 5, and Vincent, 4, in Jacksonville, where Stephen is a technical representative and educator for Boulder, Colo.-based Newton Running. Laura is a stay-at-home mother and an Internet entrepreneur, marketing fashions made from repurposed materials from her web-based business, Trash to Couture (www.trashtocouture.com).

Jordan Leggett didn’t know much about Clemson University in South Carolina until the Tigers’ football program began recruiting the Navarre High School standout. But on April 13, he joined a select brotherhood.

For area high school football fans, New Year’s Day was May 1.

That’s the first day Florida High School Athletics Association teams could practice.

Imagine if a game was played and the fans remained silent in the stands. For Navarre High School’s cheerleaders, that silence is not an option.

Navarre High School distance jumpers Nick Benton and Elijah Appel are the only Raiders competing at the Class 3A state track and field meet Friday, May 3, at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.

The University of West Florida Argonauts will play West Alabama at 9 a.m. today, May 2, in the first game of the 2013 Gulf South Conference Baseball Championship Tournament at AT&T Field in Chattanooga, Tenn.

The Pensacola Sports Association on Sunday announced that the Florida College System Activities Association will hold its Women’s Fast Pitch Softball Championship tournament in Pensacola May 3-5.

The biggest surprise that came out of the District 1-3A track meet two weeks ago may have been the emergence of Navarre High School triple-jump third-place finisher, Elijah Appel. The senior football star and sprinter came out of nowhere to become a medal winner and, last week, to become one of just two Raiders who qualified for the Class 3A state championship meet Friday, May 3, at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.