Sports Archive

The Navarre Lady Raiders varsity basketball played the Fort Walton Beach Vikings after 12 days without playing a game, and it showed.

The Navarre Raiders varsity boys’ basketball team has to continue to play hard as the number of remaining games for the season continues to dwindle. The past few games the Raiders have won and lost by only a small margin. The Raiders participated in the Christmas Tournament at Pensacola Catholic over the holiday break. At the tournament, the Raiders beat Gulf Breeze High School 39-38, lost to Washington High 49-42, and lost to Escambia Charter 54-52.

The Raider girls dominated the sub-sectional meet held in Navarre on Jan. 8. The top three lifters in each weight division qualified for the sectional meet to be held at Choctaw on Jan. 22. “We had a pretty good meet,” Coach Garrett Bagley said. “Our goal was for each lifter to get one of the top three spots in each weight class and then move on to the sectionals in two weeks.”

In a rare Saturday afternoon match, the Raiders boys’ soccer team beat West Florida at home 5 – 0 on Jan. 10.

The Raider girls’ soccer team beat Arnold at home 3 – 2 on Jan. 8. For 12 of the girls, the victory was especially sweet since it was senior night. Gabby Armstrong, Taylor Brown, Ella Burkhart, Shelby Clark, Jenny Fitzpatrick, Hannah Gullickson, Hunter Moorer, Mercedes Schmick, Ally Spicer, Jade Whitley, Bri Young and managers Sierra Shepard and Jake Phillips were honored in a ceremony before the game.

With playoffs looming, the girls’ weightlifting and the boys’ and girl’s soccer team have been working hard, while fine tuning the teams.

JANUARY

A national coaches asso­ciation recognized that Navarre High School’s 2011-2012 girls soccer team earned a Team Academic Award for its overall per­formance in the classroom. Last year’s Lady Raiders compiled a 3.53 team GPA.

The next event for the Navarre High School girls weightlifting team is the district (sub-sectional) meet on Jan. 8.

The Lady Raiders had a tough break last week when they lost to Niceville, 61-48, dropping the Lady Raiders’ record to 6-8.

In Rob Simon’s first year coaching at Navarre, the Raiders lost to Gulf Breeze both during the regular season and in the playoffs. Since then, there have been five years of ties. The Raiders finally broke through on Dec. 17 in an away contest, as the Raiders won in exciting fashion over Gulf Breeze, 5 – 4.