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As a rule, there is no tying in baseball. But all-star games often play by their own set of rules and that was the case as East took on West in the Pensacola Sports Association annual game. And not even that rule was firm as members from the East squad were moved to the West dugout shortly before the start of the game so it could be played.

Some people mark the beginning of summer with the end of the school year, others might consider Memorial Day as the official start of the season and some the official passing of the summer solstice. But for more than two decades many young baseball players in Crestview have known summer is here when they attended the Crestview Bulldogs Baseball Camp.

In what has become an early summer rite of passage, the Crestview Bulldogs Baseball Camp is scheduled for May 28-29 from 9 a.m. to noon. Registration starts at 8 a.m. May 28 at the Crestview High School baseball complex. Cost of the camp, which is open for players ages 4-13, is $75 and includes a T-shirt and pizza on Wednesday as well as admission to the Justin Richards Scholarship Tournament early next month.

In what might very well be his final home game as a Crestview Bulldog, senior Anthony St. Vincent was lights out on the mound as the Bulldog baseball team hosted West Florida in the last regular season home game of the year. St. Vincent threw a complete game shutout in the 7-0 win over the Jaguars.

Powered by a third inning grand slam home run off the bat of Maddox Smith, Baker rolled to a 16-8 baseball win over Laurel Hill on Tuesday. The Gators were firmly in control of the game from the outset, scoring four runs in the top of the first and never looking back.

It’s been said that baseball is a funny game. Balls hit like heat seeking missiles are caught and big cuts that produce swinging bunts produce runs.

Crestview baseball coach Tim Gillis will be one of the first to tell you Connor Riffe has a good baseball future ahead of him if he continues to put in the work.

Riffe, a junior, plays first base and outfield for the Bulldogs and leads the team in runs batted in with 10. At 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds, Riffe is one of the biggest players on the team.

A tough week for the Crestview baseball team got tougher Friday night as the Bulldogs hosted a talented Catholic team. Boy are the Crusaders talented. Catholic pounded out 11 runs and Crusader pitch Jackson Khor threw a complete game shutout in an 11-0 win that was called after six innings.

To paraphrase the old baseball poem, “Casey at the Bat,” there was no joy in Crestview on Tuesday night, 13 Bulldog batters struck out. The 13 strikeouts were only a small part of the story as Crestview only had two hits and nobody reached base after the fourth inning. Ironically, Jaden Appleby reached base on a third strike passed ball. The anemic offense by the Bulldogs wasted a stellar pitching performance by Anthony St. Vincent.

There was no April’s Fool joke on the Baker baseball team Monday as the Gators played host to Ponce De Leon. Four Gator pitchers, Joel Morse, Maddox Smith, Wyatt Straight and Judah Morse, combined to hold the Pirates to six hits and didn’t all an earned run.