Senior Luke Morris represented Navarre at the 2022 Drill Team championship meet earlier this month.

Morris competed in the armed solo division with 80 others from around the nation and wound up third overall.

It has proven to be another banner year for the Navarre Navy Junior ROTC unit.

The Raider battalion came away with a top 20 finish at the national meet in Pensacola earlier this month, placing 14th. There are more than 600 units world-wide.

Maybe you noticed and maybe you didn’t, but some of the people involved in the decision making efforts when it comes to high school athletics did something right this month with boys weightlifting.

Two regions in the state were divided into sub-regions, including one locally.

Courtney Danforth caught a pair of touchdown passes in the fourth quarter and lead Navarre to a 12-0 win over Tate in the opening round of the District 1-2A tournament Monday night in Cantonment.

The win over the fourth-seeded Aggies sends the fifth-seeded Raiders to the final four of the tournament for the second consecutive season.

Three Raider athletes won championships in their respective events at the District 1-4A meet Saturday at Emerald Coast Middle School, with Rachel Leggett winning titles in the high jump and long jump.

Freshman standouts Eddie Love Jr. and Dante Core also won championships, with Love sprinting to a win in the 200 and Core claiming the triple jump crown.

Jessi Farrer found herself in a tight situation last Tuesday night, one enveloped in pressure, the Raiders clinging to one-run lead on the road against Choctaw.

It hadn’t been an easy night for Farrer, and she could have been rattled to the point of no return after giving up a home run earlier in the seventh inning.

Garrett Bagley stood in the center of R. Marion Craig Coliseum early Thursday evening, his arms folded, the look on his face saying it all.

Only now, here on a mid-April day in Port St. Joe, was the sting beginning to sink in that a dagger had been driven through the heart of Navarre’s state championship dream.

Ameer Rustom lets the javelin fly across the practice football field. Devin Wright unleashes a monstrous throw in the discus out behind Bennett C. Russell Stadium.

Caden Howard and Rachel Leggett are both fine tuning their high jumping ability and EJ Love has his sights set on preparing to run his fastest 100-meter times of the year.

Nearly a dozen Navarre athletes signed national letters of intent Wednesday afternoon during a signing day ceremony in the cafeteria.

Included in that group were a pair of NCAA Division I signees, Rachel Leggett (South Alabama) and Emma Simon (Alabama State).