If you peel back the layers of Friday night’s showdown against Escambia, a game where Navarre kept scraping, kept clawing and kept fighting to grind out a 17-13 win over the Gators, at the heart of it is a defense that took a gigantic step forward.

Before Navarre’s volleyball team played its senior night match against Tate Thursday night, head coach Michelle Lee had dinner with her seniors.

Navarre swam against rival Gulf Breeze last Wednesday afternoon at the Pullum YMCA and Olivia Sczesny came through with the lone individual first-place finish for the Raiders as she won the 50-yard freestyle in a time of 27.66.

Before she even played her first collegiate soccer game, Kayla Folse was asked by her coach to set goals for herself for the season ahead.