Ray Palacio didn’t grow up a Laurel Hill Hobo. The senior point guard on the boys basketball team is a first-year student at the school after transferring from Crestview High School.
Crestview boys basketball team hosted Navarre in the opening round of the District 1-6A basketball tournament on Tuesday with the winner advancing to stay alive for the district title.
Simply put, Navarre had no answers for a Bulldog team that played its best game of the season.
The Crestview Lady Bulldogs hosted Navarre in first round of the District 1-6A girls basketball tournament. The Lady Raiders almost proved to be too much for the home team to handle.
Crestview led by 14 points with a little more than 12 minutes left in the game and then hung on for dear life. A gutsy Navarre squad fought to the bitter end coming up a point short as the Lady Bulldogs took win 48-47.
Ray Palacio didn’t grow up a Laurel Hill Hobo. The senior point guard on the boys basketball team is a first-year student at the school after transferring from Crestview High School.
It hasn’t taken him long to establish himself a leader on the court and a favorite of coach Mike Davis.
The Laurel Hill Lady Hoboes traveled south to Niceville on Thursday to take on Rocky Bayou Christian.
Even before the game started, it seemed the deck might be stacked against the visitors. Coach Carl Henry Jr. missed the game due to illness. Things then went from bad to worse before getting better for LHS.
Nobody could accuse Lady Gator basketball coach Chelsea Medley of running up the score or padding the statistics of her starters on Tuesday night as Baker hosted East Hill Christian.
Baker dominated the first half holding the Eagles to a single basket in the first quarter and scoreless in the second quarter in taking a 23-2 lead into the half.
If only Laurel Hill had had another minute or two on Monday night in the boys basketball game between the Hoboes and Holmes County might have had a different outcome.
If only a couple of the 3-point shots Laurel Hill players usually make had gone in, the end results might have been a Hobo win.
The Crestview High School boys basketball seniors went out in style on Thursday.
Crestview celebrated Senior Night in the last regular season home game against a tenacious Navarre squad. But as people in North Okaloosa County will tell you, nothing’s more tenacious than a Bulldog.
To apply a saying from baseball to basketball, fans dig the long ball. And Laurel Hill fans were digging what they saw as the Hoboes hosted Baker in boys basketball on Tuesday.
Long balls were in abundance for Laurel Hill as the Hoboes hit 12 shots from 3-point range on their way to a 62-35 win over the Gators.
Trailing Laurel Hill 50-48 with 3.2 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Baker’s Lady Gators might not have needed a miracle, but they needed something close.
A Lady Hobo turnover on a 5-second call gave Baker the ball near mid-court. Lady Gator coach Chelsea Medley called a timeout and drew up a play that worked to perfection. McKenzie McGraw, who at that point had a team-leading 22 points, would get one more shot.
