Sports Archive

It was one last opportunity for area baseball players to play the game they love. Seniors from Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties competed in an East vs. West Pensacola Sports Association All-Star Game last Friday night at Pensacola State.

For a moment, there was a question of whether the Pensacola Sports Association All-Star Softball Game was officially over.


Yes, the East was firmly in control, leading the West by six runs on a humid evening in Pensacola, but the umpires had to determine if the game was going nine as originally planned or being called after seven.

Joeseph Skipworth will go into his senior season without the pressure of having to still find a place to play college football.


That’s because the Pace standout announced June 12 he was committing to the Kansas Jayhawks.

Pace Patriot pitching star Jayden Heavener and head coach Lexi Alexander have both been recognized by the Florida Dairy Farmers.

Kaylin Brown hasn’t been an athlete her entire life. But when she got to Milton High School, Brown was on the weightlifting team as a freshman and a teacher mentioned that lacrosse might be something she’d enjoy playing.

Two Central athletes aren’t done competing just yet.


Sasha Hatcher and Corbin James will both run cross-country at the college level after signing national letters of intent earlier this spring.

It’s summer now and little has changed for the Milton Panthers in terms of their approach to work on the football field.


On a June morning on the practice field, the players are dialed in as they run plays.

Keaton Henry said his goal going into this track season was to get better each meet.


The Central standout did just that as a sophomore, going all the way to the 1A state meet last month in Jacksonville and placing 13th with a throw of 132-feet-5-inches.

Central’s Dakota Bowman had never competed in track before this season. That didn’t seem to matter, however, as the senior standout ended up going all the way to the 1A state meet in the high jump.

Darrien McDowell was named an NCAA Division II first-team All-American after a successful baseball season at the University of West Florida.