As Navarre’s girls weightlifting team prepares for another run at a state championship, starting with Wednesday’s District 1-3A meet in Niceville, head coach Garrett Bagley likes where things stand with his team heading into it.

Bagley said the team has progressed the way he hoped it would this season as it built toward the most important part of the season.

Abby Fogg talked to her team just before the start of the fourth quarter Friday night, her team’s once comfortable lead now trimmed to four.

Eighth-ranked Navarre was on the brink of being upset by rival Milton, and Fogg wanted to make sure the Raiders did what they needed to do to avoid it.

Jonathan Recinos chased down the Bay ball handler with every last ounce of energy he had and executed a perfect slide tackle, erasing a potential game-tying goal for the Tornadoes, the player falling to the ground and the ball rolling out of bounds.

In a soccer season that hasn’t been easy for Navarre’s boys soccer team, this was the one game Recinos wasn’t going to see end in defeat. Not here at Bennett C. Russell Stadium and not on senior night.

Emma Simon has grown up around the game of soccer, and for the last four seasons at Navarre, her dad, Rob, has been her coach.

That connection made senior night extra special for Simon, who, after the game basked in the glory of a 6-2 win over Pace with her teammates on a chilly January evening at Bennett C. Russell Stadium.