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After an abrupt end to last year’s season, with the Patriots losing by a point to Buchholz in the first round of playoffs, the Pace Patriots enter this year with their eyes on vengeance.

Their story began Friday night when they hosted Pensacola Catholic in their Kickoff Classic.

Football in the North end of Santa Rosa County gets rolling tonight as area teams take part in their respective Kickoff Classics.

Pace hosts Catholic, Milton travels to Pensacola and Jay welcomes Lighthouse Private Christian Academy into town.

Four University of West Florida football players have been named to the preseason All-Gulf South Conference team, including wide receiver Caden Leggett.

Santa Rosa County swim teams got some preseason work in on Tuesday in a preseason relay meet at the Pullum YMCA in Navarre.

Navarre, Pace and Milton all competed at the meet on a hot and humid afternoon. Gulf Breeze was there as well.

Panhandle Prospects is hosting its third Top 40 Showcase Aug. 27 at the Fricker Center in Pensacola.

The top 40 players from the area will be participating in front of college coaches and members of the media, including Milton’s Treymar Jones and Ra’shaun Elzy as well as Jay’s Mason Allen. CJ McKinley, who had been playing at Milton and will play this season at FCP National High School, will also participate.

The Florida Aquatics Swimming and Training Center in Ocala will be the home of the state swim meet in Florida for the next three seasons.

It’s hot here on a practice field just outside of Pen Air Field on an early August afternoon. The kind of hot that requires multiple water breaks over the course of two hours and popsicles at the end of practice.

And yet, the University of West Florida football team pushes through the brutal summer heat and stifling humidity.

Joe Surratt helps a young football player adjust his helmet before practice begins for Central on an open athletic field in rural Santa Rosa County.

It’s one of those things that comes with the territory of being a program literally being built from the ground up.

The University of West Florida men’s soccer team is ranked 20th in the United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll.

Manny Kimmons started playing football in middle school and hasn’t looked back. He’s now one of the Milton Panthers’ top players going into the 2023 season.

A senior defensive lineman, Kimmons is doing his best to be a leader.