Sports Archive

The Shoal River Middle School Mustangs are celebrating a recent championship over Ruckel Middle School. According to Head coach Del Phillips, this Shoal River team is one of the best he has been around.

As Madi Muse prepared for her final lift of the day, an attempt of 175 pounds on the clean and jerk, fan support for her was not in short supply inside the R. Marion Craig Coliseum in Port St. Joe.

Family, friends and teammates cheered from the stands.

Crestview head football coach Tim Hatten remembers the day in 2004 well. His Pearl River Community College football team was playing for a national championship.

It was cold and windy. Nothing unusual for a December day in Coffeyville, Kansas.

For one half last Wednesday night, Crestview’s girls soccer team hung around against Navarre in a District 1-6A tournament quarterfinal.

The Bulldog goalkeeper made several tough saves that prevented the Raiders from running away from the game early in the first half.

Crestview’s boys and girls soccer teams are gearing up for District 1-6A tournament play this week.

The Bulldog boys are the fifth seed in the tournament and take on Tate in the opening round on Jan. 27 in Fort Walton Beach.

Crestview girls weightlifting coach Alex Pottinger has watched his team take steps forward throughout the season and the Bulldogs showed off that progress last Wednesday at the District 1-3A meet in Niceville.

The Bulldogs had one district champion in Madi Muse, who prevailed in 110-pound weight class in the traditional meet of bench press and clean and jerk with a total lift of 295 pounds.

It’s not that Crestview head boys basketball coach Greg Watson enjoys games where the pressure begins to rise and things get a little too close for comfort.

But at the same time, those are the moments that benefit a team, and Watson believes his Bulldogs learned from the experience of a tightly contested 64-60 win over Navarre Tuesday night.

The latest regional rankings are out in the various winter sports as hopes remain intact for area teams to reach the postseason.

The top eight teams at the end of the year make the regional, with the four district champions earning an automatic berth.

Crestview defensive coordinator Adam Robertson intended to only be a marine reservist when he signed up for the service. 

His dad told him it would be a great way grow as a man and get his college education paid for.

Crestview’s Marcus Patterson started working toward his dream of playing college football when he was in middle school.

He made the dream a reality last month, signing his national letter of intent with Western Kentucky.