Sports Archive

Many Baby Boomers are likely to remember the cartoon character Quick Draw McGraw.
McGraw was an animated horse that served as a lawman and was the fastest and deadliest shot in the West. The Baker Lady Gators basketball team has its own Quick Draw McGraw in sophomore point guard McKenzie McGraw.

Samantha Kerrell has made a college decision. The Crestview High School volleyball senior will be taking her skills an hour north to Andalusia, Ala., where she will play for Lurleen B. Wallace Community College.

“I actually looked at a few other colleges and they’re good,” she said. “It’s close to home and I just really feel like I had a place there and the coach (Janie Wiggins) and the team wanted me.

It has been a few weeks since Baker’s volleyball team fell to Liberty County in the state championship match last month. As is the case with all things, time marches on at a clip faster than any of us want to think about.

Chelsea Medley starts her second year as the Baker girls basketball coach with a young, but scrappy team.

Senior guard Payton Barnhill will be the glue that provides leadership for the Gators, but the players Medley expects big things from are sophomores Addison Cadenhead and McKenzie McGraw.

Heidi Sheikho’s high school volleyball career ended a little more than a month ago when Crestview was eliminated from the district tournament.

Sheikho’s career with the Bulldogs might be over as she’ll graduate in the spring, but she will continue to play volleyball as she signed with Belhaven on Friday.

Crestview’s Lady Bulldogs basketball team hosted Milton on Tuesday trying to avoid an 0-2 start in District 1-6A play.
Mission accomplished. Crestview used a suffocating defense and timely shooting to down the Panthers 45-32.

When is win not a win? When an official misses what seems to be an obvious goal.
That was the fate of Crestview’s girls soccer team on Monday night when the Lady Bulldogs hosted Washington. An action-packed first 22 minutes of play saw the teams tied at 2-2.

Baker’s boys basketball team survived a torrid end to the first quarter by Gulf Pointe Latin on Friday night.
The Gladiators rolled up 15 points in the final 3:30 of the first quarter to lead the Gators 17-12 after the first quarter. The 17 first-quarter points would be more than half of Gulf Pointe’s total for the night.

An undersized and outmanned Laurel Hill boys basketball team was not match for a larger, more experienced Paxton squad on Thursday night.
The Hoboes dug themselves into an early 17-0 hole and although they turned in a gutsy performance, they couldn’t keep up with the Bobcats. When the final horn sounded Paxton had claimed a 72-40 win.

A little more than a week after Baker lost in the volleyball state championship, Gator players Kailyn Ellis and Leighton Mitchell were back on the court at the University of West Florida Fieldhouse as members of the East team in the Pensacola Sport Association All-Star Volleyball Classic.