The Lighthouse Private Christian Academy boys basketball team is a state champion.
The Stingrays won the Sunshine State Athletic Association championship Saturday in Winter Haven with a 79-48 win over Cornerstone Charter Academy.
Kaitlyn Lawson saw the ball deflected in the box and rolling in her direction. Here on a chilly senior night against Choctaw at Bennett C Russell Stadium, the Pensacola State signee was on a mission to put that ball in the back of the net in the final minute.
Darius Cunningham Jr. is known as a big-time scorer for Navarre’s boys basketball team.
And last Tuesday night against Choctaw in a 77-75 loss at home, the Raider senior standout hit a scoring milestone.
A torn ACL prevented Jordan Szymczyk from playing soccer his junior season at Navarre.
But he’s back on the field this season could not have asked for a better situation to come back to for his senior year.
Things have changed a bit this week in the FHSAA Region 1-6A rankings.
Pace and Navarre have traded places in the girls rankings, with Pace going to fifth and Navarre now sixth.
If there is one thing Navarre’s boys basketball team has done this season it’s compete.
Of its eight losses through the first 18 games of the season, only four have been by double digits.
Madison Simmons knocked down a 3-pointer with a minute left in the first half of a showdown with Niceville Monday night, bringing the Raiders within seven and maintaining a glimmer of hope that an upset of the No. 4 team in 6A was possible.
Izzy Zach was a state qualifier for Navarre’s girls weightlifting team last season. But she only placed ninth.
Yet, it was during that first year of competitive weightlifting for Zach where she learned what it was going to take to succeed in the sport.
After head coach Garrett Bagley gave a pep talk to the team Friday night, Izzy Zach took a moment to say a few words to the team in the wake of a runner-up finish for the Raider girls weightlifting team at its own invitational.
She was certainly pleased about the two gold medals around her neck, one for winning her weight class (183) in Olympic, and the other for a victory in traditional.
