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The Crestview football team traveled to Escambia High School on Thursday for a Kickoff Classic that was more a situational scrimmage than a practice game.
Each team had the same number of plays on offense. Each possession started from the same designated spot on the field at the start of the alternating possessions.

Chloe Ates is a senior libero on the Baker School volleyball team with no plans on stepping away from the sport any time soon.
The Lady Gator stalwart already has scholarship offers from Gulf Coast State College in Panama City and St. Leo in the Tampa Bay area. St. Leo is a NCAA Division II program that competes in the Sunshine State Conference.

Devan Miller feels right at home at Baker School. And for good reason. He graduated from Baker in 2016 and was a member of the track and cross-country teams.

He now teaches at his alma mater and was recently named the school’s cross-country coach to go along with his duties as an assistant coach on the track team helping with the distance runners.

Crestview head football coach Thomas Grant is quick to heap praise on senior center Michael Foley.

“I don’t say this lightly, but he might be the most important person on our team,” Grant said. “He touches the ball on every play. This is a guy that I have that has been a three-year starter.

The unofficial start to high school football season has arrived.

Crestview High School will be one of the first teams in the area to hit the field as the Bulldogs travel to Escambia for a 7 p.m. showdown with the Gators on Thursday night in a preseason Kickoff Classic.

The Crestview High School football team took a trip to Gulf Breeze on Saturday morning to take part in what was one part scrimmage and another part officials clinic.
It was a beautiful morning in Gulf Breeze that was probably more suited for a day on Pensacola Beach. the heat index reached 112 degrees by 11 a.m.

Standing 5-foot-10 and weighing around 250 pounds, sophomore lineman Makani Abdon is what one might think of as a typical Baker Gator football player.

He might be a tad small and a step slow, but he makes up for those shortcomings with the intangibles of smarts, toughness and heart.

The familiar rhythm of football echoed across the Crestview practice field.

The calendar might say early August, but there’s a sense of urgency with the Bulldogs counting down the days until they travel to Escambia Aug. 17 for the Kickoff Classic with the Gators.

A sure-fire sign that high school football season is upon us is the annual Meet the Bulldogs Night.
The big event is set to take place on Friday, Aug. 11 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Jack Foster Stadium. Cost is five dollars.

Javin Shoemake will be trading the so-called tools of ignorance for the green, green grass of home next spring.
Shoemake the catcher on Crestview High School’s baseball team the last few seasons has graduated and signed to play at Bishop State Community College in Mobile, Ala., where he will move to the outfield.