The Pace Patriots take aim at continuing their quest for a repeat as 6A state champions when they face Parrish Community today at Boombah-Soldiers Creek Park in Longwood.
Game time is Noon EST. Pace comes in at 23-3 and ranked second in the state in 6A. Parrish is No. 3 and is 26-3.
Pace’s football team finishes spring practice this Friday when it takes on Navarre in a spring game at Bennett C. Russell Stadium. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Pace softball players smile and wave from the windows of minivans. A few others do the same from the sunroofs of the vehicles, which begin rolling down a road lined with fans holding signs and taking videos as the team heads out for Central Florida.
This scene here on a mid-May afternoon hasn’t become an annual guarantee, but it sure is close. The reigning champion Patriots are headed to the state final four for the fifth consecutive year.
Milton’s football team wraps up spring practice this week, getting in work for three days on the practice field.
The Panthers host their Black and Gold Game on Friday.
Quincy Wilson has been one of the best players in the area all season.
Last Friday, the Central standout punctuated a successful high school season by earning East MVP honors at the Pensacola Sports Association All-Star Game.
Senior Emma Hicks dove and stretched for a fly ball in right field to record the final out of the seventh inning in the Region 1-6A championship game against Navarre Thursday night.
That play sealed Pace’s fifth consecutive trip to the state final four, the Patriots securing a 4-0 win over the Raiders and immediately erupting in celebration.
Milton grad Briana Willis was part of school history earlier this year at Huntingdon.
The former Panther is on the women’s golf team that won a USA South Athletic Conference championship for the first time.
A trip to state is on the line tonight for Pace and Navarre in softball.
The Patriots and Raiders face off in the Region 1-6A championship game at 7 p.m. in Pace, with the winner punching a ticket to the state final four in Longwood.
Players were hugging, with the seniors saying their final softball goodbyes. There were tears, as is always the case in these moments as Jay’s softball season came to an end Tuesday night in the Rural Region 1 championship game.
Amid the heartbreak of a 4-1 loss to Northview at home, however, there was also a lot for the Royals to be proud of, something head coach Brian Watson pointed out in a postgame interview.
There are some differences within the Pace football program as spring practice rolls on. Most notably, a new head coach, though Vance Smith is hardly a stranger.
He played for Pace and had been an assistant under his dad, Kent, before taking the reins in December when his dad retired.
