Sports Archive

Although there hasn’t been football for two weeks in Santa Rosa County, the FHSAA regional rankings continue to be updated.

While schools in Santa Rosa County School won’t reopen until Monday due to the damage caused by Hurricane Isaias, an exception is being made for volleyball teams in the area.

District tournaments will be allowed to move forward this week. No other sports are allowed to be in action until schools open on Monday.

Sean Acosta was supposed to be holding tryouts for the Navarre boys soccer team on Monday.

Instead, he and several Raider athletes were at the Navarre Soccer Complex on a sun-splashed October morning cleaning up the mess left by Hurricane Isaias, which ripped through Northwest Florida as a Category 2 storm on Friday night.

In the wake of Hurricane Isaias, the Florida High School Athletic Association is providing some flexibility for athletic teams for district volleyball tournaments and for football.

FHSAA Executive Director Craig Damon talked about that flexibility during an interview on Monday morning.

District volleyball tournaments in the area are set to begin on Monday.

Jay and Navarre are both top seeds in their respective tournaments, with the Royals on top in Rural District 1 and the Raiders atop District 1-6A.

The University of West Florida football team isn’t playing Saturday after its game was canceled due to Hurricane Isaias.

The Argos were scheduled to take on Northeastern State out of Oklahoma at Darrell Gooden Stadium in what would have been their first home game of October.

It’s time to take a look at the latest round of regional rankings for high school football.

Keep in mind that the Florida High School Athletic Association regional rankings look a little different this year.

History is within reach for the Navarre Raider volleyball team, which will play for its first district championship in program history next Thursday.

The Raiders (11-12) are the top seed in the three-team District 1-6A tournament and get a bye into the championship round, hosting either Pace (9-13) or Crestview (9-13) for the crown.

The threat of Hurricane Isaias has washed out every area high school football game on the schedule this week.

Most teams moved their games to Thursday to get ahead of the storm, but an announcement was made  Wednesday that no after school activities were permitted in Santa Rosa County on Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

The final FHSAA regional volleyball rankings of the regular season were released Tuesday, giving everyone an idea of where teams are sitting heading into district tournament play as well as their potential for a regional tourney berth.