Sports Archive

Two Pace flag football players were named to the Florida Athletic Coaches Association 2A All-State team last week.

Ashten Dickerson earned second-team honors for defense while Amaya Pablo was a third-team pick on offense.

Sean Tomey has been waiting for a chance to get back into coaching softball. When the job at Milton opened up earlier this year, Tomey didn’t hesitate to apply.

Tomey has been named the new head coach of the Panthers and he’ll trade in the sideline for the dugout after spending the last four years as the head flag football coach at Navarre.

As Walter Ford competed in various national events last summer, including with USA Baseball’s 18U National team, that feeling of potentially going pro much sooner than expected started to seem a little more real.

But he wasn’t thinking at the time about the possibility of reclassifying from junior to senior ahead of the 2022 high school baseball season.

Pace head girls basketball coach Greg Gill considers himself an eternal optimist.

Though his team is playing summer basketball without two of its best players, not all is lost for the Patriots.

Ranked as one of the top kickers in the nation, Pace’s Reice Griffith never stops working to maintain that standing.

He’s already attracted Division I offers, including from Army and Air Force, and he’s always working on his craft, whether it’s in kicking workouts locally or attending camps on various college campuses.

Gracie Bonds started pitching when she was 9 years old.

It turned out to be a love at first pitch kind of deal for the Milton ace.

Tyler Marion Strain played in four games last season for Illinois, and the former Pace defensive back will be the first to tell you it was quite a jump from high school football to the Big Ten.

“It was eye-opening,” Strain said. “It was a big adjustment for me. It took time to get used to it.”

Jayden Heavener is California dreaming.

The Pace softball star is headed out West in late July to compete in the Premier Girls Fastpitch Futures All-American Game.

Riley Alcantar is dominating the middle-school aged wrestling scene.

Alcantar, part of the Pace Gracie Jiu Jitsu Academy, continues to train in Jiu Jitsu but also has become quite the wrestler, excelling in various tournaments around the region.

The wait is over the Pensacola Blue Wahoos.

After missing out twice on a chance to clinch the first-half Southern League South Division title, the Double-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins got the job done Thursday  night with a 10-6 win over Biloxi.