Pressure reached a boiling point late last Thursday night. Navarre found itself on the brink of disappointment in a softball showdown at home against Milton, its two-run lead no longer as safe as it once seemed to be. The bases were loaded, the fans were on the edge of their seats and the Panthers were […]
Navarre’s baseball team barely missed on sweeping Niceville last week. Thursday, Navarre grinded out a 5-4 win. On Friday, it was a sixth-inning, come-from-behind rally that nearly ended in victory. The Raiders fell 8-7. Both teams are now 3-1 in district play. Navarre’s overall record is 8-8. Kaleb Hellard ended up winning the game Thursday with his foot, as […]
Navarre’s flag football team came out on fire but cooled off late in a 13-12 loss to county rival Gulf Breeze on the road Wednesday night. The Raiders scored two touchdowns early before going silent for the remainder of the game. Hailey Smith picked off a pass and rumbled 20 yards to the end zone, giving […]
Jacobi Smith was almost brought to tears by the fact that he and his fellow seniors have helped put the Navarre boys weightlifting program on the map, leading the Raiders to a 2A state championship Friday at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach. “It almost makes you want to cry, having grown up together. […]
Jordan Jefferson was supposed to contend for a state title a season ago. After bench pressing 375 pounds, he scratched in the clean and jerk. He finished at the bottom of the standings in the heavyweight division, a long way from contention. But he was back at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach on […]
Josh Carter admits there were moments when he wondered if the hard work would pay off. That it would lead him down a path to another state championship in the 219-pound weight class. With a gold medal around his neck Friday afternoon at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach, the Navarre senior looks back […]
One point put the exclamation point on Navarre’s first boys state weightlifting championship in program history. Behind two state champions (Josh Carter and Jordan Jefferson), as well as three other medal winners, the Raiders edged Spruce Creek by the slimmest of margins. Noah Melendez placed fourth, and the three points he received for that effort […]
Griffin Jax plays professional baseball for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos. But that just scratches the surface for Jax, a starting pitcher for the Double-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. Read the full article in the April 11 issue of Navarre Press. Visit https://navarrepress.com/subscribe/ to view subscription options – or sign up to receive a digital […]
Rap or Rock? That was the question Garrett Bagley posed to Jacobi Smith prior to the start of a mid-day workout a week before Friday’s 2A state weightlifting meet at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach. Smith chose rock. But had he chosen rap, or really, any other brand of music, that wouldn’t have […]
Evan Gourley and Dante Wright are multi-sport athletes at Navarre High School. They qualified for state in weightlifting. The problem is the district track meet in Santa Rosa Beach is Friday, the same day as the state weightlifting meet in Panama City Beach. The conflict put both athletes in a difficult spot, one they shouldn’t […]
As the final seconds tick off the clock late Tuesday night, Navarre’s flag football team prepares to celebrate another win. The Raiders have just bulldozed their way past Tate, winning 26-7 at Bennett C. Russell Stadium to notch their fourth win of this inaugural season. In less than 24 hours, the players will be back […]
Jimmy Kerrigan was playing independent baseball in 2017. Pro ball seemed out of reach while in Missouri playing for the Frontier League’s River City Rascals. Until one day in July when he walked into the stadium and discovered his name was scratched off the lineup card. The Minnesota Twins purchased his rights, earning him a […]
A four-run explosion in the bottom of the sixth inning propelled Navarre’s softball team to a 6-3 win over Owensboro Catholic out of Kentucky last Tuesday. The comeback started when shortstop Kallie Anderson swatted a pitch over the left field fence, tying the game at 3-3. Rachel Hester nearly followed with a homer of her own, the ball landing […]
Hunter Wallace now has a better idea of just how serious soccer is in England. The freshman was one of several from Navarre who made a trip overseas during spring break to play games and train. Her father, Craig, the director of football and recruitment for the International Football Institute, heads up the opportunity for […]
Tony Carter has talked all season about peaking at the right time. Friday at the Andrews Invitational in Gulf Breeze, his Navarre Raiders showed they are indeed on the right track. Literally. Navarre’s girls track team won its first invite of the season, rolling up 126 points to crush the 16-team field. Pine Forest was […]
Lexi Kimes reached her hands out as the ball sailed above her. The seconds of the final minute on the clock ticked away in a flag football showdown between Navarre and Pace Thursday night. With the pressure mounting, Kimes knew she needed to deliver in a big moment. She refused to think back to earlier […]
Allison Gutierrez started to give up hits in the late innings against Spanish Fort last Monday night. She even allowed a run. But while her early dominance began to fade just slightly, Gutierrez didn’t back down, just as this Navarre Raiders softball team has refused to back down from any challenge that has come its […]
Navarre’s baseball team was an inhospitable host during the Northmont Thunderbolts’ spring break trip to Florida. The Raiders drubbed the “T-bolts” 14-4 in a five-inning tilt last Tuesday. After a morning on the beaches of the Panhandle, Northmont took to the field in its second game of the season. The Thunderbolts faced senior hurler Kaleb Hellard, who was making his second start. […]
Jordan Jefferson stood on the Raider logo, the bar, loaded up with 355 pounds, at his feet. His teammates cheered. Many of the fans did as well. Some held up their cell phones to record an historic moment for the Navarre senior at the 1-2A Regional meet Friday afternoon. Jefferson paused for a few moments, […]
Rock music blares to the point where it almost shakes the weight room on a Thursday morning, the sound loud enough to carry into the parking lot. Members of Navarre’s weightlifting team are having fun and working hard as they gear up for Friday’s Region 1-2A meet, which the Raiders are hosting starting at noon. […]
No one will deny the 2018 season for the University of West Florida football team was one that didn’t go as expected. The Argonauts finished 6-5, a game above .500, a year after going to the NCAA Division II national championship game. Injuries played a big part in it. Yet, here at Pen Air Field […]
Gatlin Casey sprinted down the field with everything he had, doing his best to impress those watching during a pro day at the University of West Florida’s Pen Air Field. Amid the crowd of onlookers was Rick Reiprish, a senior scouting assistant with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Casey displayed his speed in the 40-yard dash and […]
Navarre’s baseball team faced four teams from Oklahoma last week and came away from the Aggie Classic with a 2-2 record. A total of 20 teams competed in the tournament over the course of four days during spring break. Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Florida were represented in it. The tourney opened with a game […]
Ailsa Clark was on the golf course with her swing coach earlier this month. She told her she felt good about where her game was, believing it was as solid as it’s ever been. The former Navarre Raider also mentioned she wanted to win a college tournament for the first time in her career in […]
Kallie Anderson would have been happy with a hit. She did so much more for the Navarre Raiders in her first at-bat of last Tuesday night’s game against Tate. The senior slugger belted a two-run shot over the fence in left field, a first-inning hit that left no doubt it was leaving the yard and […]
Friday night’s Subway All-Star Game at Pensacola State’s Hartsell Arena provided Navarre’s David Melega the opportunity to play one last high school basketball game. He enjoyed every minute of it, especially with the East prevailing over the West 96-94 in a wild comeback win between senior standouts from Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa County schools. […]
Lauren Kane had a cheering section just for her at the Subway All-Star Game Friday at Pensacola State’s Hartsell Arena. Navarre head coach Abby Fogg and several players from the basketball team came out to watch her play in this event featuring seniors from Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa County schools. Raider softball coach Kelly […]
Dante Wright brought his own school record to its knees Saturday afternoon at the Steve Garst Wildcat Invitational in Pensacola. Sprinting down the track on a chillier than usual March afternoon, the Navarre senior came across the finish line in blazing fashion, clocking in with a time of 10.89 to win the 100-meter dash and […]
Cody Thompson admits he didn’t have his best performance of the year Thursday afternoon at the District 2-2A weightlifting meet at Choctaw. But he still won a district title, one of five Navarre lifters to do so, and the Raiders left town with the trophy they came for, repeating as district champions and winning their […]
Ailsa Clark is a medalist for the first time in her career at Florida Gulf Coast University. The Navarre grad shot a 69 on the final day of the Spring Break Shootout and finished the three-round tournament in Dade City with a school-record 206. Her effort helped the Eagles win the tournament with a school-record […]