Navarre’s boys lacrosse team played a challenging schedule all season, facing some of the best competition in the area.
That remained the case Thursday as the Raiders faced area power Niceville on the road and lost 15-1.
As the Navarre Raider flag football team walked off the field late last Thursday night, the sting of defeat cutting deep, it couldn’t help but notice the celebration going on behind it.
Pace was enveloped in joy, celebrating its 19-0 victory over the Raiders in the District 1-2A championship game at Bennett C Russell Stadium.
Layla Prochazka is best known for her play on the volleyball court at Navarre. She was an integral part of the Raiders’ success this past season, stepping up as one of the team’s top hitters with 268 kills.
She has spent the spring of her senior year, however, on a different kind of court. A tennis court.
Charlie Cottrell was on spring break when he got the news Birmingham-Southern is closing its doors at the end of this school year.
A football recruit out of Navarre, Cottrell was looking forward to his time as a college athlete for the Panthers starting this fall.
Renee Hester has been playing varsity softball since her freshman season and has always been an integral part of the program in that time.
This year is no different for the junior standout, who is doing what she can to help Navarre contend for a district title and playoff berth.
Kate Hudson leads the Huntingdon women’s lacrosse team in goals scored. The sophomore has found the back of the net 10 times while also dishing out two assists.
A bye week is the only thing that has slowed down Quentin Randolph so far this season.
Randolph and the Vegas Knight Hawks didn’t have a game the first weekend of April.
With a runner on base and two outs, Navarre’s baseball team was on the cusp of perhaps piecing together a seventh-inning rally last Monday night.
The Raiders had just scored one run on a ground out by Bo Shipley, cutting the Pace lead to two, but couldn’t deliver the clutch hits when they needed them most to keep hope for a win alive.
Navarre’s baseball and softball teams are currently outside the top eight in the latest regional rankings.
The baseball team is 21st in the region and is 6-11. The softball team is 7-8 and ninth in the region.
Connor Mathews has spent hours in the weight room, far too many too count. And the amount of weight he’s lifted all season in preparation for the 3A state weightlifting meet next Friday in Lakeland is, simply put, a lot.
