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Chris DeCorte hasn’t always been a running back.

But since moving from the defensive to offensive side of the ball, the rising senior has embraced his new role on Navarre’s football team.

Victory wasn’t out of reach for the East in the Subway All-Star Soccer Games Thursday night at the Ashton Brosnaham Complex in Pensacola.

Featuring five Navarre soccer standouts, the East team dominated the girls game in shutout fashion while the boys’ East squad, which featured three Raiders, saw its tightly-contested battle decided by penalty kicks.

Navarre's girls weightlifting team continues its dominance of the region, winning its 14th consecutive championship Friday at Oak Leaf High School in Orange Park.

The Raiders claimed the trophy on the strength of a performance that featured four regional champs.

Minor League Baseball is changing in 2021, and that change has impacted the future of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos.

The Miami Marlins extended an invitation for the Blue Wahoos to become their Double-A affiliate, and the Northwest Florida franchise has accepted it, breaking off from its previous partnership with the Minnesota Twins.

Promise and potential dot the sports landscape in the area with the arrival of the new year.

Navarre’s girls basketball team has 10 wins to its credit, the most in the first half of the year since the 2015-16 campaign when the Raiders won a district title and advanced to the regional.

Abby Fogg coached like her team was down 30 instead of up by that much throughout Thursday night’s showdown with Pace.

Rachel Leggett, Mickey Vollmer and the rest of the players on Navarre’s girls basketball team kept playing like they were the team trying to dig out of a hole rather than bury its opponent in one.

Five Navarre Raider football players are headed to the Subway All-Star Football Game Dec. 18 at Washington’s Sherman Robinson Stadium.

Jaden Rivera, Grady Kelly, Jaden Jones, Elijah Melendez and Preston Brewer have been selected to the game, which will kick off at 7 p.m. next Friday night.

Chants of Let’s Go Raiders boomed from the visitor’s section of Jack Foster Stadium.

Along the sideline, Navarre’s football players showed an extra bounce in their step, raising their helmets in the air in the final minutes of a 30-13 road win over Crestview.

Jebari Mitchell has developed a knack for setting the tone with an explosive kick return.

He was at it again Friday night with Navarre trailing by a touchdown four minutes into its homecoming showdown with Enterprise.