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There was no joy in Crestview High School baseball complex on Tuesday night. The Bulldogs opened the season with a talented Mosley squad and were no match for the visiting Dolphins. Crestview managed just two hits by Anthony St. Vincent in a 7-0 loss.

The Crestview baseball team was fortunate that Tuesday’s game with Niceville was only a preseason contest. The Bulldogs played good defense executing a couple of impressive pickoff plays. But as far as hitting and pitching goes, there wasn’t much to smile about in a 6-1 loss.

Anthony St. Vincent will be staying close to home as he continues his baseball career. The Crestview third baseman/pitcher/outfielder signed a scholarship with Northwest Florida State College on Wednesday at a Signing Day Ceremony at Pounders in Crestview.

There’s nothing that says spring is right around the corner than the start of the high school baseball season.

Teams across the state of Florida can play preseason games starting Feb. 12 and begin regular season play on Feb. 19.

Javin Shoemake will be trading the so-called tools of ignorance for the green, green grass of home next spring. Shoemake the catcher on Crestview High School’s baseball team the last few seasons has graduated and signed to play at Bishop State Community College in Mobile, Ala., where he will move to the outfield.

John Gillis still has big baseball dreams that include one day playing pro baseball.

Gillis played baseball and football at Crestview. The latter part of his senior football season, he was the starting quarterback for the Bulldogs. But baseball always has been his first love, which is to be expected as his father, Tim, is a former minor league player and the Crestview baseball coach.

Pearson McDaniel only spent a year at Crestview High School but it was good year. A 2023 Crestview graduate, McDaniel enrolled at CHS last summer after spending his first three years of high school at Fort Walton Beach.

Crestview High School baseball coach Tim Gillis has announced the cancellation of the 2023 Justin Richards Scholarship Baseball Tournament. Weather was the culprit in making the decision.

Early each summer the Crestview High School baseball team celebrates one of its own that left too soon. The Justin Richards Scholarship Baseball tournament has been a fixture on the Bulldog summer schedule since 1996. The tournament helps raise money for a scholarship honoring Richards, who was a senior on the Crestview baseball team when he lost his life in a car accident on January 20, 1996.

Nothing says summer like baseball. And nothing says summer has started like the Crestview Bulldogs Baseball Camp.