Pensacola State’s women’s soccer team will play its first regular-season game in program history Aug. 18 at home against Hinds Community College. The Pirates will play their 2023 home games at the Ashton Brosnaham Complex in Pensacola.
Vinny Villanova said he got in maybe one play on varsity last season. So, the bright lights of Friday night will be a new experience for him as he heads into his junior season with the Navarre Raiders.
He feels good about where he’s at with kickoff fast approaching and is happy with the work he’s put in this summer.
Chelsi Kania was a familiar face in the dugout and at first base during games last season. Now, the former assistant is moving into the head coaching role for Navarre’s softball team.
Kania talked by phone Monday about the opportunity in front of her after learning she had gotten the job earlier in the day.
Jack Patching heads into his third season of soccer at the University of West Florida this fall.
Patching came through with a solid sophomore season for the Argos in 2022, finishing third on the team in scoring.
Elijah Thompson charges hard at a rolling tackle dummy and drills it. Seeing the scene unfold makes one feel sorry for the pain he’s poised to unleash on a real opponent this fall.
Navarre’s boys soccer team is all in with an intense game of futsal inside the Gulf Pointe Latin gymnasium on a Tuesday in late July.
Back and forth. Hard shots on goal. Big saves. This is the kind of thing head coach James Baccarini wanted to see from his team during its month of summer workouts.
Medals clanking has become a familiar sound for the Navarre Xpress. The sound grew a little louder this year.
The local track club had its best AAU season yet in its short history, particularly at the regional meet in Jacksonville earlier this summer when 19 qualified and 17 punched a ticket to nationals.
Reigning Gulf South Conference co-champion University of West Florida football is picked to finish in the preseason conference football poll this year.
The Argos received two first-place votes and 56 points in all in the poll, second only to GSC favorite Delta State, which earned six first-place votes and tallied 61 points. West Georgia checks in at No. 3 and got one first-place vote.
Austin Reed was on fire. Not literally, of course, but in sports terms.
He threw one touchdown pass. And then another. And another. And one more for good measure. Four in all to go along with a New Orleans Bowl-record 497 passing yards as he guided Western Kentucky to a 44-23 win over South Alabama on mid-December night in the Caesars Superdome.
Michael Sandle continues to play well for the Asheville Tourists in his third season as a pro while Matt Cronin remains out of action for the Rochester Red Wings. Both are alums of Navarre.
Sandle is batting .218 through 55 games for the Tourists, the High-A affiliate of the Houston Astros. He has racked up 44 hits and driven in 19 runs while scoring 22 runs.
