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In Pace Friday Night, the stands were packed as Pace took on Choctaw on the newly named Mickey Lindsey Field. The Patriots fell 21-14 to the Indians in their non-district showdown.

Before the game, the Pace community held a ceremony to name the field in honor of the Patriots’ longtime coach.

After two weeks of showing flashes of its potential but coming up empty in the win column, Milton’s football team secured a victory, rolling over Navarre 51-13 on Friday night at Bennett C. Russell Stadium.

Head coach Ronnie Douglas could sense his team was close to putting it all together over the last couple of weeks.

Both Jay and Central entered Friday’s rivalry game with zeroes in the loss column. Only one could remain undefeated, however, as the Royals walked away with a 41-0 road win.

Pensacola State women’s soccer coach Mark Yepshin remembers when his Pensacola State women’s soccer team only had a practice field and had to play its home games at the Ashton Brosnaham Complex.

Navarre and Pace competed in a tri-meet with Gulf Breeze last Tuesday at the Pullum YMCA in Navarre.

The Raiders won the girls meet with 574 points while Pace was second with 481. On the boys side, Pace took second (858) and Navarre was third (798).

We are now three weeks into the high school football season and every team in our coverage area is in action Friday night.

Pace welcomes Choctaw to town, Milton travels to Navarre and Jay and Central square off in a rivalry game in Allentown.

Before the third set of Pace’s rivalry showdown with Milton on Tuesday night, senior standout Allie Morgan said she and her Pace teammates talked about having a dog mentality.

Down two sets to none, the Patriots had no choice.

Pace’s baseball team will challenge itself in a big way in 2027 as it plans to play in a tournament in Las Vegas over spring break.

The Patriots are set to compete in the Faiths/Public Classic, which his hosted by national powerhouse Bishop Gorman and scheduled for March 22-25.

The University of West Florida’s Byron Puryear has been named the United Athletic Conference’s Defensive Player of the Week.

Week two of the high school football season is in the rear-view mirror.

Here’s a look back at how things played out and a glance at what is ahead for Navarre, Pace, Central, Jay and Milton this week.