Sports Archive

Tanner Sauls finished off the latest big moment for this 2022 edition of Pace baseball with a strikeout.

In fact, he struck out the side in the seventh inning to help seal the deal on a 2-0 win over University and punch the Patriots’ ticket to the state final four.

Ava Grace Wheaton won a 3A state championship in the javelin Friday afternoon in Gainesville.

The Pace junior recorded a personal-best throw of 125-feet-7-inches, more than 10 feet better than runner-up Avery Brincat out of Island Coast.

Walter Ford never allowed himself to get rattled Tuesday night in a pressure-filled situation, the moment never becoming big enough to consume the pitching star with Major League Baseball potential.

There were a couple of passed balls and a couple of walks that put the Patriots in a tight position early on in a Region 1-6A quarterfinal against Forest.

With her arms stretched out and a smile on her face, Shelby McKenzie acted as if she was an airplane coming in for a landing, swaying back and forth as she headed towards home plate Thursday night.

Whether or not the three softballs she hit ever landed is up for debate, but what there is no doubt about is that McKenzie’s big night was a difference maker for top-seeded Pace in a 9-2 win over Lake Howell in a Region 1-6A quarterfinal.

For most of the night in a Region 1-5A quarterfinal game against Gainesville Thursday, Milton’s softball team kept itself in the hunt for a victory on the road.

The Panthers grabbed an early two-run lead and trailed by only one after four innings of play.

Pace’s best flag football season in program history came to a close last Monday night.

The Patriots went on the road to battle Fleming Island and fell 19-7 to the Golden Eagles in a 1-2A regional final.

Milton’s baseball team saw its season come to an end last Tuesday night in a 2-0 loss to Gulf Breeze in the semifinal round of the District 1-5A tournament.

The Panthers battled the top-seeded Dolphins tough all the way through, keeping the game scoreless through the first four innings.

Pace’s Ava Grace Wheaton and Sean Drummond are ranked first and second, respectively, in the girls and boys javelin heading into Friday’s 3A state meet at the University of Florida.

Wheaton recorded a throw of 119-feet-9-inches at the regional to win a championship and is hoping to win her first state title in the event.

Broc Parmer came back to the dugout feeling confident before the bottom of the seventh inning of Pace’s District 1-6A championship game against Tate.

It didn’t matter that the score was tied at 4-4, or that the pressure was mounting even more than it had in the previous six innings of a thrilling classic between two of the best teams in the state and nation.

As Haylee High stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the sixth inning, a runner on base, and the outcome against Niceville hanging in the balance in the District 1-6A championship game, one thing was on her mind.

“It’s getting close to the end of the game. I have to make something happen for my team,” High said.