Many coaches and athletes will tell you there is no taste sweeter than that of revenge.
Revenge is just what the Crestview Lady Bulldog basketball team got on Friday night with a 45-35 win over Navarre to even the score on the season with the Lady Raiders.
Baker’s boys basketball season started 2024 the same way it ended 2023, with a win.
Powered by Andrae Jackson and Joshua Prows, the Gators slipped past Pensacola Christian Academy on Thursday night 56-54.
Just when it looked as if the Crestview boys basketball team had a fighting chance against Pope John Paul II on Wednesday things fell apart.
The Bulldogs had closed a Knight lead that had once been 15 points to a point at 41-40 after Makhi Jones hit a pair of free throws with 7:20 left in the fourth quarter. John Paul, out of Hendersonville, Tenn., exploded for a 30-11 run after the free throws by Jones.
It’s fair to say the Baker boys basketball team didn’t play a perfect game on Tuesday against Northview. But the host Gators did play a very good game.
The result was a 66-44 win over the Chiefs.
The Crestview Lady Bulldogs traveled to Niceville on Monday for a District 1-6A basketball game.
For all practical purposes the game was over at the end of the first period with the Lady Eagles up 17-2. In a twist of fate, Crestview outscored Niceville 17-2 in the fourth quarter.
Anybody hoping for what has become a typical nail biter when the boys basketball teams from Crestview and Choctaw square off would have been disappointed on Friday night. Those hoping for a win at home by the Bulldogs will be overjoyed.
The game was close in the first quarter as the Indians led 14-12 at the end of the period. The rest of the night belonged to Crestview as the Bulldogs ran away with a 69-48 win.
It would have seemed appropriate if the theme song from the classic TV show M*A*S*H had been playing as the Baker boys basketball team took the court against West Florida Baptist on Thursday evening.
A large part of the Gator starting lineup was out with injuries. To make matters worse, starting post player Levi Hunter went down with an ankle injury early in the game after scoring one basket.
The last 10 or 12 minutes of Thursday’s girls basketball game between the Baker Lady Gators and Paxton looked as much like a game of keep away or hot potato as it did basketball.
Baker’s attempt to keep the ball out of the hands of the potent Lady Cat offense didn’t change the outcome of the game, a 53-21 win.
A good coach is often most unhappy when it seems their team pulled off an easy win.
Crestview boys basketball coach Greg Watson is a good coach. And he saw many things that needed to be fixed after the Bulldogs beat Pace 52-38 on Tuesday night.
Just when all hope looked lost for the Crestview boys basketball team in Friday’s game at Niceville, it wasn’t.
The Eagles led the Bulldogs 55-48 with 1:32 left in the fourth quarter after a pair of free throws by Anwar Conley. Conley’s points would be the last for Niceville.
