softball Archive

Sometimes the greatest teams are not the ones with the great players, but rather the great teammates. Kayla Martin was one of those great teammates for the Crestview Lady Bulldogs softball team as a senior this year.

John Toolan has been on the job as Crestview High School’s head softball coach for a little less than a year but has run the program since being named the interim coach early last summer. While serving as interim, Toolan ran his first Crestview Lady Bulldogs Softball Camp. Anyone thinking the second time around might be easier, would be wrong.

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.

For many high school coaches and athletes, the first week or two of summer is spent as counselors and coaches at a team’s youth skills camp. That holds true at Crestview High School as well as current Lady Bulldog softball players instruct future Lady Bulldogs.

For more than a decade, Niceville has been the 500-pound gorilla in the room for the Crestview softball team.

As other sports, both girls and boys, have gained traction with the Eagles and now play the longtime rival on what is an even playing field, the Lady Bulldogs continue to struggle with their rival to the south.

Crestview’s leadoff hitter, Ava Secor, scored the only run the Lady Bulldogs would need in the top of the first inning in Tuesday’s District 2-6A semi-final softball game against Mosley on Tuesday.

When Crestview’s leadoff hitter Ava Secor scored the only run the Lady Bulldogs would need in the top of the first inning in Tuesday’s District 2-6A semi-final softball game against Mosley on Tuesday. Secor wasn’t the only Lady Bulldog to score as Crestview crossed the plate nine more times. The final run came in the bottom of the sixth inning when Mayson Feller scored from second on a Julian Forrest hit to close out the 10-0 win.

There were no surprises Monday evening when the Class 6A Crestview softball team hosted 1A opponent Paxton. As one might expect, the Lady Bulldogs dominated in every aspect of the game. And is almost always the case, the dominant team won.

Hits and runs were hard to come by Friday as the Baker softball team hosted Catholic. The Lady Crusaders scored three runs on four hits, all coming in the first three innings. Catholic pitcher Isabelle Little-anoai was even more stingy allowing four hits. She also walked four, hit one Lady Gator batter and was the victim of two Catholic errors.

Although the game only lasted five innings, it was a long afternoon for the Laurel Hill softball team Thursday as the Lady Hoboes hosted Destin. To say Laurel Hill was slow out of the gate would be the definition of an understatement. To say the Lady Hoboes ever stopped fighting would be a lie. But by the time the Lady Hoboes finally scored in the third inning they already trailed 18-0.