The Laurel Hill Lady Hoboes are off to an impressive start this basketball season. They were 7-3 heading into Thursday game with Paxton.
Not only are the Lady Bobcats the biggest rival of Laurel Hill, year in and year out they are one of the top teams in the state.
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 by a 56-54 score.
The second set of FHSAA regional rankings have been released for girls and boys basketball.
The top eight teams at the end of the season in 6A will make the playoffs while the top four will get into the 1A playoffs. District champions earn an automatic berth.
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.
Joe Brunson was born to play football.
The son of longtime Crestview and Baker coach Matt Brunson, who is now the head coach at Opp, Ala., Joe was a member of Baker’s 2020 state championship team playing running back and linebacker.
It’s time to highlight some of the top volleyball players from our coverage area in 2023.
Baker had the most memorable season, winning a 1A state title, while Navarre and Jay both earned runner-up honors in their respective districts and made the regional tournament.
Kayleb Wagner was back in Baker for the holiday break last month after completing his first season of college football at Southern Illinois University.
Wagner redshirted and played in one game. He did score a touchdown in the game and will have four years of eligibility remaining.
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.
Biblical King Solomon is said to be the wisest man that ever lived. In chapter three of the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon reminded us that there is an appointed season for everything under the heavens. The appointed seasons of local sports are part of the cycle of life. At this time every year we take time to look at the top sports stories for the year that has been.
