Sports Archive

Former Crestview High School principal, and before that a CHS student-athlete, coined the phrase, “Once a Bulldog, always a Bulldog.” Thomas Grant embodies that phrase having played football while a student at Crestview in the late 1990s and served as an assistant football coach, basketball coach and head boys weightlifting coach for more than a […]

Crestview High School’s baseball team opened the District 1-6A tournament with a hard-fought 9-6 win over Okaloosa County rival Fort Walton Beach on Monday. The Bulldogs will play Tate at 4 p.m. today (May 3) at Pace in the tournament semifinals. A Bulldog win in the Aggies coupled with a Niceville upset of the host […]

In the spirit of the recent National Football League draft, Baker’s pick for a new head coach is in and the Gators select Barry Gardner to head the program. The selection of the 38-year old Gardner should come as no surprise. Gardner has been on the Baker staff for two years and helped lead Baker […]

Crestview High School sent two lifters to the Class 3A state weightlifting championships in Port St. Joe last week, Caleb Krumnow and Marcus Patterson. Both lifters performed well.

Patterson, a senior, took fifth place in Traditional in the 239-pound weight class. Krumnow was even better winning a state championship in snatch in the 219-pound weight class.

The hits kept rolling for Baker’s softball team on Thursday as the Gators played host to Pensacola High. By the time the game ended with the 15-run mercy rule Baker had sealed the win 19-4 in four innings.

What looked to be a walk in the park for the Crestview baseball team against county rival Choctawhatchee turned into a wild ride home on Friday.

The Bulldogs held a 5-0 lead after three innings and seemed to be well in control of the game as starting pitcher Anthony St. Vincent was on cruise control.

It was all Walton as Baker hosted the Braves in baseball action on Thursday evening. Powered by the arm and bat of Braden Clark the Braves rolled to a 6-0 win. “The kids, minus two innings, fielded pretty well,” Gator coach Barry Gardner said. “It was the best we’ve fielded in about two weeks. We […]

What is often an overused cliché, “A game of inches,” held true on Monday as the Baker softball team hosted rival Jay.

The Royals won the game 3-2, but only by the slimmest of margins that could be measured in a total of three or four inches.

Pace pitcher Walter Ford was as good as advertised as the visiting Patriots beat Crestview 13-0 in high school baseball action on Thursday. The game was called after five innings on the run rule. Ford, who has signed to play college baseball at the University of Alabama and is expected to be a high draft […]

After almost three-and-a-half decades of coaching football at the high school and junior college level, Crestview High School head football coach Tim Hatten is hanging up the whistle. He will remain on staff as the school’s athletic director. Hatten, 58, won a National Championship at Pear River Junior College in Mississippi. He also coached at […]