Last Friday, I attended my first signing ceremony for a high school athlete in the area.
It had the usual pomp and circumstance that is associated with an event like that.
The Baker softball team rallied late, but ultimately fell short at home against Destin by a final of 11-9 on Mar. 3.
Destin held a six-run advantage through four innings, but then the Gators struck back.
Laurel Hill baseball coach William Barton took a moment to address his team in the second inning of a 26-9 loss against Baker on Mar. 3.
After the Hoboes had just surrendered 16 runs defensively in the top of the frame to trail 21-3, Barton gave his team a specific message.
The Crestview beach volleyball dropped their first match of the 2025 season to reigning state champion, Gulf Breeze, by a final of 5-0 on Mar. 3.
Gulf Breeze who went 22-0 last season, defeated the Bulldogs 2-0 in every set.
Olivia Keith was a star for the Crestview High School softball program.
She played in over 60 games across four seasons with the Bulldogs, tallying 55 hits and scoring 39 runs.
Julian Rover, a senior at Crestview, finalized his decision to continue his football career at William Penn University in Iowa next fall.
Rover made the signing official in front of friends, family and members of the Bulldogs coaching staff at Pounders Hawaiian Grill in Crestview on Feb. 28.
For the first time since 1981, college golf teammates at the University of Montevallo, Larry Adams, Norm Tums and Tim Mosteferis, shared laughs, hugs and tears at Music Mart on Feb. 24, a store that Mosteferis owns in Valparaiso, Florida.
The trio was honored as part of the 1981 Montevallo men’s golf team that was inducted into the school’s hall of fame in January.
The Baker softball team dominated Rocky Bayou Christian on Feb. 27, as they swept the Knights in a double-header.
Baker won both games by a final of 17-0.
All three North Okaloosa County high schools participated in the Baker Invitational track meet on a breezy, late winter day on Feb. 27.
In the boys 100-meter dash, Sean Smiley of Laurel Hill was the top finisher with a mark of 11.89, while Crestview had the next two finishers who competed all in the top 10 overall with Hayden Harris and Ziare Hobdy running in under 12.01 seconds.
