Normally when a pitcher throws a no-hitter, he gets credited with a win and can expect to be mobbed on the mound at the end of the game. Unfortunately for Navarre High School hurler Jeff Rutledge, neither of these things happened Feb. 21 in Cantonment. Rutledge, who was making his first varsity start, did not allow a hit in six innings of work against the Tate Aggies, but one unearned run by the hosts proved to be the difference in the game.

The Navarre High School softball team played Pensacola on Feb. 12 and won easily by a 10-0 score. Two days later, the Lady Raiders played at Fort Walton Beach on Feb. 14 and were shutout by the Vikings. The next evening, they took on Tate at home and everything went wrong for the Raiders. Their defense let them down and their pitching was pounded by the Aggie hitters.

In the first boys’ weightlifting meet of the season, Navarre High School lifters held on to a narrow 48-42 win at home over Pace on Feb. 12. Three days later they competed in the Fort Walton Beach Invitational and placed second out of the six teams entered.