Navarre and Niceville are an even 5-5 against one another since October of 2014, but not for long. The Navarre Raiders will look to defend their home field on Friday against the Niceville Eagles at 7:30 p.m. Hopefully Navarre focused on turnovers this week as the team gave up four on Friday.
Navarre is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 48 points last Friday, they were much more limited against Pace on Friday. They took a blow against the Patriots, falling 35-7. While losing is never fun, the Raiders can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 189th, while the Patriots are ranked 34th).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Niceville). They blew past Milton 43-3 on Friday. The Eagles might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won five matchups by 21 points or more this season.
Navarre has been struggling recently as they've lost three of their last four contests, which put a noticeable dent in their 3-6 record this season. As for Niceville, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 8-1.
Navarre took a serious blow against Niceville in their previous meeting back in November of 2023, falling 63-34. Thankfully for Navarre, Deangelo Shorts (who rushed for 214 yards and two touchdowns on only ten carries) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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