Nick Wilhelm scored what head coach Jonathan Jones called a ‘beautiful goal.’
The nice move by the senior standout to get open and fire a shot into the net gave Navarre an early 1-0 lead against rival Gulf Breeze in the opening round of the District 1-2A tournament Friday night.
We’ve reached the final stage of the boys high school weightlifting season and several area lifters are headed to the 3A state meet Saturday at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland.
Alex Minisall and Bryce Eberhardt both won regional titles in Olympic and traditional this past weekend at Flagler Palm Coast. The Raiders, the regional runner-up in both competitions as a team, are sending a total of 13 lifters to state.
Navarre’s girls and boys track teams competed at the Frank Lay Patriot Invitational last Thursday in Pace. The boys placed fifth as a team and the girls finished sixth.
Renee Harris-Toliver helped lead the way for the girls, placing second in the 100 (12.74) and third in the 200 (26.72). She also took 10th in the high jump with a leap of 4-feet-6-inches.
Courtney Danforth raced down the field, turned, looked up and waited for the perfect pass from Madison Simmons to drop into her hands before snagging the ball in the corner of the end zone as Navarre extended its lead to 24 points.
“I kept running my route, went straight to the corner, and (Madison Simmons) threw it to me. It worked out perfectly,” Danforth said.
The latest regional rankings are out and one local team finds itself at the top in baseball.
Pace is ranked No. 1 in Region 1-6A and is also the No. 1 team in the state. The Patriots are the reigning 6A runner-up. In softball, Pace and Navarre are both in the top eight of the current 6A regional rankings.
Through two innings there was no score. After four, it was only a 3-1 game, Navarre’s softball team still harboring hope of an upset over one of the nation’s best teams.
What the Raiders couldn’t do against Pace, though, was avoid the mistakes that the No. 3 team in Florida is always quick to cash in on.
Keyon Stoutemire has long dreamed of playing college football. He made that opportunity official on March 30 when he signed a national letter of intent with LaGrange College.
The Lighthouse Private Christian Academy receiver weighed his options this offseason before choosing the NCAA Division III school.
There’s a passion quarterback Cameron Dukes has for the often unforgiving game of football that keeps him pushing ahead to pursue his pro dream.
Sure, the Navarre resident has been knocked down, but he’s always gotten back up, and he understands that you just have to keep betting on yourself.
Ace DeMotts thought he swung a little late.
And truth be told, he wasn’t even trying to hit his third home run of the night in Navarre’s road game against state-ranked Pace Tuesday night.
Isaac Cole almost didn’t lift at Wednesday’s District 1-3A meet. He hurt his back at a meet a week earlier and that put his postseason hopes in jeopardy.
“I thought it was going to stop me,” Cole said.
