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Nearly two weeks of spring football are in the rear-view mirror and Navarre head coach Jay Walls is pleased with the direction the team is headed in.

He said the effort in the spring has been a continuation of what he has saw during offseason workouts.

Michael Sandle strolled up to the plate in the fifth inning Sunday with the same confidence he’s had throughout his college career.

Disregard the pop up in his last at-bat against Coastal Carolina on a sun-splashed May afternoon at the University of South Alabama’s Stanky Field. That wasn’t about to rattle the former Navarre Raider.

Emily Madril saw her dream of a national championship in women’s soccer end Monday night at WakeMed Park in North Carolina.

Madril and the top-ranked Florida State Seminoles were beaten by Santa Clara in a penalty kick shootout in the College Cup final.

Bri Edwards soaked it all in on Sunday as she competed in a national championship meet at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach.

She didn’t get this chance a year ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and because of that, competing this year meant a little more to the level 10 gymnast out of Navarre.

Emily Madril and the Florida State Seminoles are on the brink of another national championship.

The former Navarre Raider helped FSU advance to the College Cup final with a penalty kick shootout victory over Virginia Thursday.

Skylar Mayo was told by Lighthouse Private Christian Academy Athletic Director Robert Schneider that if there was an ever an opening for a coach within the athletic program Schneider headed up, he would hire him.

That was back in 2013 when Mayo was playing football at Southeastern University and Schneider was an assistant coach at the time at the school.

J.J. Bleday put his bat on the ball in the bottom of the fourth inning Wednesday night and sent it soaring over the wall in right field, helping the Pensacola Blue Wahoos erase a scoreless tie.

It was the first home run of his professional career and provided a shot in the arm for the Double-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins in their 4-1 victory over the Birmingham Barons at Blue Wahoos Stadium.

A year ago, there was no spring football for the Navarre Raiders. The COVID-19 pandemic axed those plans.

But Monday afternoon Navarre was back on the field ready to roll.

Navarre athletic director Scott Murphy has told me the story before about the time the Raiders were at the state softball tournament and someone mispronounced Navarre while also wondering where the heck the town was in Florida.

That was more than a decade ago.

Navarre’s Bri Edwards is headed to nationals in gymnastics after a successful run at the state and regional level.

Edwards is one of seven athletes representing Region 8 at the national meet, which takes place May 16 at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach.