Navarre High School has appealed the tentative reassignment of the Raiders’ football program to Class 7A, citing student population and financial considerations as reasons to remain in 6A.
The Navarre High School boys’ soccer team closed out the regular season last week with a 4-0 victory against Fort Walton Beach and a 1-0 win against Niceville and entered this week’s Florida High School Athletics Association District 1-4A soccer tournament seeded second behind Niceville.
The Raiders got off the bus Friday trailing host Milton by 14 points.
Or, at least, that’s how it must have seemed to Navarre High School’s struggling boys’ basketball team after a 54-39 loss to their cross-county and District 1-6A rivals.
Navarre High School dominated the district meet held Jan. 9 at home, placing first in nine of 10 weight divisions. The Raiders also had five second-place winners and one third-place finisher.
This time of the year every game is a challenge, according to Navarre girls’ soccer coach Rob Simon. In a week of non-district matchups, the Raiders beat a very tough Choctawhatchee team on Monday Jan. 7, tied Pensacola Catholic on Tuesday Jan. 8 and succumbed to West Florida after leading the game for the first 60 minutes on Friday, Jan. 11.
Navarre freshman Nadia Fingall recorded a triple-double and the Lady Raiders played their most complete basketball game of the season Friday in a 59-32 rout of visiting Tate High School.
Navarre High School’s boys’ soccer team played three games last week, winning against West Florida and Pensacola Catholic and losing to Choctawhatchee. Raiders coach Ken MacDonald substituted freely in each game attempting to rest several injured players before next week’s district tournament.
A national coaches association recently announced that Navarre High School’s 2011-2012 girls soccer team earned a Team Academic Award for its overall performance in the classroom.
