17 days to the original kickoff of the 2020 HS Football season as Navarre would have been traveling to Gulf Breeze on 21 Aug 20. The season originally was scheduled to start on 27 Jul 20 (practice); but has now been delayed until 24 Aug 20.
17 games ago – Escambia 37, Navarre 27 (2018)
Box Score
Navarre……0 7 7 13 – 27
Escambia….20 0 7 10 – 37
The Raiders (6-1, 1-0) fell behind early as the Gators jumped out to a 20-0 lead after one. Escambia’s Frank Pesant rushed for two touchdowns (16 & 87) and Av Smith found the end zone from three yards out.
Navarre cut it to 13 at the half when Dante Wright caught a 34 yard pass from Marlon Courtney III…Gators 20, Raiders 7.
Josh Carter had a three yard TD run as Navarre would get within six early the third quarter. But, Pesant scored on a four yard run for his third TD of the night to stretch the lead back out to 13 going to the fourth quarter…Escambia up 27-14.
Ronnie Perez added a 37-yard FG at 8:36 for the Gators. Then, Navarre’s Quinn Caballero hauled in a 13-yard TD pass from Courtney and the Raiders were within 10 with 7:30 to go in the game. Escambia would get a 47-yard TD pass from Smith to JoJo Blackmon and Navarre a 21-yard TD pass from Courtney to Wright to close out the scoring.
Courtney had his best game of the season yardage-wise as he threw for 307 yards on 20-25 passing and three TDs. Chris Williams had four receptions for 101 yards and Wright added five receptions for 98 yards and two TDs.
The Raiders were led on defense by Carter’s 12 tackles (11 solo/assist) and Jordan Jefferson’s 9 tackles (4 solo/5 assists/2 TFL). Navarre compiled 11 tackles for the loss on the night with Isaiah Heyward and Grady Kelly with three each. Wright was 3-3 on extra points.
Raiders who wore #17:
QB Robby Miller – Class of 2013
WR John Graczyk – Class of 2014
DB Zack Hamm – Class of 2016
WR Anthony Vega – Class of 2017
WR Anthony Brockum – Class of 2019
Current Raider wearing #17:
QB Jason Deal – Class of 2021
17 – points scored in a game – Florida High (Week 8 – 2006)
17 – touchdown passes in a season – Austin Grimm (2007)
17 – touchdown passes in a season – Dusty Jones (2011)
17 – points scored in a game – Crestview (Week 4 – 2013)
17 – points scored in a game – Escambia (Week 6 – 2016)
Navarre is 11-6 in their last 17 games and leads the series against Escambia, 7-3.