Sports Archive

For more than a decade, a drug-testing policy for student-athletes has been in place in the Santa Rosa County School District.

Adapting to a new team comes with the territory of being a minor league baseball player. Players promoted to the next level must get used to new teammates, a new stadium and new opponents.

It wasn’t long ago that Nick Brahms was barely on the recruiting radar.

When Taf Bentley first started running a summer hoops league at Navarre, game time was limited. The Raiders played 11 or 12 games.

Here was Tyler Mahle, in just the second start of his Double-A baseball career for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, staring straight into the evil eyes of a bases-loaded jam last Wednesday night.

Michelle Lee was thrilled with the turnout at Navarre’s volleyball camp last Wednesday and Thursday.

Adapting to life in a new city won’t be anything new to Navarre’s Zamir Jones when he heads to New England this fall to play basketball at Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts.

Phillip Ervin steps off the field after batting practice on a Saturday afternoon in June, wiping the sweat from his forehead before he begins answering questions about how his second season in the Southern League has played out in Pensacola.

Concerns are on the rise over pitch counts in baseball but Navarre pitcher Tyler Rebber will tell you it’s the last thing on his mind when he is in a game.

Just behind Bennett C. Russell Stadium, the place where Navarre’s dreams of a perfect season came crashing down in a gut-wrenching 23-22 loss to Tate in the opening round of the playoffs last November, the Raiders work hard on a sun-splashed practice field.