Sports Archive

For more than 20 years the Justin Richards Scholarship Baseball Tournament has been providing a deserving Crestview High School baseball player scholarship money to help with college expenses.

In past years high school teams from across the Deep South have made their way to the Hub City to play some good baseball and maybe spend a little time at the beach on Okaloosa Island or Destin.

Denzil Ware has made the long football journey home to Crestview.

A 2014 graduate, Ware was a four-star prospect who signed with Kentucky.

Joe Brunson might not have been born with a football in his hands, but a football was probably one of his first toys as a baby.

The son of Baker School athletic director and former Gator head coach, Matt Brunson, Joe has been around football his whole life.

History is for sale at Crestview High School.

Pieces of the old CHS court went on sale Tuesday afternoon and the sale continues today from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. and Thursday and Friday from 8 a.m.-11 a.m.

The warm weather that settled in on the Crestview High baseball field didn’t seem to bother the boys and girls that were there for a baseball camp.

Long a fixture in the community that kickoffs summer, the camp teaches children the fundamentals of baseball while emphasizing the fun that kids should have while playing the game.

Crestview’s Olivia Keith was among a handful of softball players from Okaloosa County to represent the East in the Pensacola Sports Association All-Star Game last Thursday night at Pensacola State.

Playing baseball at Laurel Hill, Dalton Raef was ready to see if he could hang with the guys from Crestview, Pace and Tate, who probably had a history class with more students in it than Raef’s graduating class had with 26 students.

A quintet of Crestview baseball players took the field on last time on June 2 at the Pensacola State College baseball field as they played for the East team in the Pensacola Sports Association All-Star Game.

The East won the game 14-7 but playing with their friends one last time was what Brady Vann, Maddox Wesolowski, Joe Thomas, Bryce Dolce and Tison Breen will remember the most.

One play that almost every baseball and softball player dreams of being a part of, at least on the defensive side is a triple play.

But for a team of Crestview youth softball players ages 10-12 comprehending the rarity of such a play wasn’t easy after they turned one.

Ever since Crestview High School opened its doors in the current location in the fall of 1969, thousands of students have practiced, played, danced, celebrated and probably shed tears on the gymnasium floor.

That original floor is gone now and will be replaced by a new hardwood surface that will be the home floor of the Bulldog basketball and volleyball teams.