Sports Archive

Head coach Dave Wilson is cooking up lunch on the grill while his Lighthouse Christian College football team practices on a Tuesday morning in October.

He’s just glad to be back at it with football after Hurricane Isaias hit the area hard on Oct. 9.

Jay Walls said in a phone interview that it seems like just yesterday the Soundside Hurricanes were getting their football program off the ground.

Gulf Pointe Latin’s volleyball team repeated as Panhandle Christian Conference champions earlier this month to punctuate a 23-0 season.

Pace and Jay remain in playoff contention in high school football based on the final MaxPreps rankings of October.

Soundside’s cross-country team wrapped up its inaugural regular season on Tuesday at the Aggie Invitational in Pensacola.

Girls and boys golf teams from Santa Rosa County played in the District 1-3A tournament on Monday at Stonebrook in Pace.

Jaya McDonald is headed to the regional girls golf tournament for the third year in a row.

That didn’t seem like a sure thing after the Navarre Raiders’ junior standout had surgery on her wrist in February.

Navarre, Pace and Milton competed at the District 1-3A meet at Frank Brown Park in Panama City on Thursday.

And several swimmers qualified for the regional, which takes place Tuesday in Gainesville.

The deficit was too much to overcome for the Navarre Raiders football team.

In their first game back on the field since Oct. 2, the Raiders trailed by more than 30 at the half against the Crestview Bulldogs.

For the first time in October, area runners competed in a big invitational. They put their running skills to the test on a mild Thursday afternoon at the Escambia County Equestrian Center in Pensacola.