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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.

The end of the school year in Okaloosa County on May 25 can mean many things.

One of those is the Crestview Bulldog Baseball Camp is just around the corner. The camp is open to boys and girls ages 4-13.

Anybody that has attended a Crestview High School baseball game in the last 20 years has probably seen Jim and Nancy Gillis.

Jim and Nancy are the parents of Bulldog coach Tim Gillis as well as three other sons that graduated from CHS.

When first-year Baker baseball coach Preston Nixon asked who would be willing to catch this year, the first player to raise his hand was Ethan Williams.

Williams, a senior, had never caught before having pitched and played third base, but that didn’t matter. Williams is the type of player coaches through the years have come to expect a Baker Gator to be. A Jack of all trades is what Williams has become whether on the baseball diamond or football field.

The 2023 baseball season came to an end for Crestview High School in the first round of the District 2-6A tournament. Niceville handed the Bulldogs a 9-2 loss that was indicative of how the season went for Crestview.

It’s been a magical season for the Baker School baseball team.

The Gators had an 11-7 record as they prepared for their April 20 game at Pensacola Christian Academy. Having previously beaten three of the five teams they had left before the District 1-1A tournament, Baker was on track to win the most games since the 2009 team went 14-12

A magical season for the Baker School baseball team continued on Tuesday. There was nothing fancy or dramatic about the performance of the Gators against Rocky Bayou Christian. What there was though was good pitching, solid defense and a team swinging the bats very well.