PACE – Navarre exploded for 22 points in the third quarter and held on for a 46-41 upset win against Washington in the first round of the District 1-6A girls’ basketball tournament Monday.
The Navarre High School Student Government Association is asking fans to “black out” the Raiders home basketball game against cross-county rival Gulf Breeze tomorrow to support the American Heart Association.
Two Navarre players received red cards and were ejected from the Raiders’ District 1-4A championship game Friday against top-seeded Niceville. The Eagles held on for a 2-1 win at Navarre’s Bennett C. Russell Stadium, earning their ninth straight district crown in the process.
Navarre High School’s boys’ basketball team eked out an overtime win against Pace and lost district tilts to Pine Forest and Tate last week before being routed by Fort Walton Beach on Monday. The Raiders will host Crestview tonight, Thursday Jan. 31, and Gulf Breeze on Friday, Feb. 1, to end the regular season. The District 1-6A tournament begins Monday at Pace.
The Navarre High School girls’ soccer season ended Jan. 16 with a 1-0 loss to Pace in the semifinals of the Florida High School Athletics Association District 1-4A tournament played at the Navarre Soccer Complex and Bennett C. Russell Stadium.
Milton scored the game’s first seven points and never looked back, snapping Navarre’s modest three-game basketball winning streak with a 43-33 district win Friday on the Lady Raiders’ home court.
Phil Frazetta, who plays in the Navarre Youth Sports Association football program, led the National team to victory at the 2012 Offense-Defense Youth All-American Bowl on Dec. 29 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
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.
