Sports Archive

Play ball. Or is it play golf?


In this instance, it is both sports for Jameson Rasmussen and Logan Hand. They are among a handful of athletes who play golf and baseball for the Navarre Raiders.

Even in a year when neither Navarre nor Gulf Breeze has a winning record, the Beach Bowl still means something.

Six games into the season, the University of West Florida is 6-0.


The interesting thing is that until this season, UWF, which has enjoyed a lot of success in a short time as a program, has never been unbeaten through its first six games.

There was little that could be said after Navarre’s football team lost 41-0 to Crestview Friday night at Jack Foster Stadium.


The Raiders lost their seventh game of the season, remaining winless and still searching for answers to flip the script, even if for just one night.

Volleyball teams in the area begin district tournament play next week and a lot is at stake as winners receive an automatic bid to the regional.

Down two sets to none, Navarre needed a spark. The Raiders found it in a hard-fought third set against Choctaw, surviving 25-23, to keep hope for a senior night win alive last Thursday night.

Take a look at the area football stat leaders.

Earlier this week in practice, the Navarre Raiders tried to ramp up the competitive fire among the player with competitions.


The hope is that it provides an added spark for Friday’s District 1-6A battle with Crestview at Jack Foster Stadium.

Twice in a span of a little over a week last season, Navarre’s girls soccer team lost to Niceville.


The Raiders fell in the district final and then in the Sweet 16 as their season came to a close.

Zeke Burgess has landed his first major college offer.


The versatile junior standout athlete for the Navarre Raiders picked up an offer from the University of Kentucky on Monday.