When the Baker softball team hosted Escambia last Tuesday night, one thing was certain, the Lady Gators would win. The question was, which Lady Gators team would prevail.
Crestview had one lifter place in the top three at the Region 1-3A boys weightlifting meet last Saturday in Navarre.
Braxton Ratcliff finished second in the 183 lbs. weight class in Olympic.
Whenever a team from Crestview High School is trying to climb the mountain of success it seems as if Niceville is almost always standing in the way. This is especially true in softball where coach Danny Hensley has made the Lady Eagles the model of consistency for more than 20 years.
The Lady Bulldogs traveled to Niceville to take on the Lady Eagles in the stadium baring Hensley’s name on Thursday in hopes of getting the elusive win. But in what has become a continuing story it was the Lady Eagles coming out on top 10-3.
In what has become as much a signal of the arrival of spring as warm days and blooming azaleas, the Baker boys weightlifting team claimed a sixth-consecutive District 1-1A championship last Wednesday.
There was no April’s Fool joke on the Baker baseball team Monday as the Gators played host to Ponce De Leon.
Four Gator pitchers, Joel Morse, Maddox Smith, Wyatt Straight and Judah Morse, combined to hold the Pirates to six hits and didn’t all an earned run.
A familiar theme for the Crestview tennis team unfolded Friday as the Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs host Lincoln High School out of Tallahassee.
As has been the case throughout the year, the more experienced Bulldogs came away with a 6-1 win while the younger Lady Bulldogs are still experiencing growing pains losing to the Lady Trojans 6-1.
It was as easy as one, two, three for the Lady Bulldogs in Crestview’s home football game with Fort Walton Beach on Friday.
Maybe it wasn’t that easy, but three touchdowns by Kennedy Baluran proved to be the difference as Crestview beat the Lady Vikings 25-20.
Powered by an eight-run second inning, the Baker baseball team made quick work of Laurel Hill in a battle of North Okaloosa County neighbors and District 1-1A rivals.
When the game ended after the top of the fifth inning due to the run rule, the Gators had a 13-2 win in their return to action after spring break.
Baker School hosted a track and field meet on Thursday with five other schools in attendance. Joining the Gators and Lady Gators were Rocky Bayou Christian, Walton, Paxton, Vernon and a group of junior varsity athletes from Crestview.
When the final scores were tallied it was Baker coming out on top in both the boys and girls competitions.
When the umpire yelled, “Play Ball,” to start the baseball game between Crestview and Pace on Wednesday night, it’s doubtful anyone present realized how long the Bulldogs and Patriots would play.
The game was one part an endurance contest and two parts a pitching battle that went 12 innings. In the end, it was a great high school baseball game. And as the cliché goes, it was ashamed one team had to lose.
