Sports Archive

There’s a saying in sports that great teams don’t rebuild, they reload.
The Baker football team has been great the last decade having gone to the playoffs for 10 consecutive years and having won at least one playoff game each of the last nine years. The highlight of the run came as the Gators won the 2020 state championship

There are athletic scholarships that award more money than the Whitney Megan Langley Memorial scholarship. There are athletic scholarships that some would say carry more prestige. But it’s hard to deny the meaning before the annual award is given to a graduating Crestview softball player.

The 2023 recipient was catcher Alex Carroll.

Baker football fans that can’t wait until the Kickoff Classic on Aug. 18 to scratch their football itch are in luck.
Baker School will host Meet the Gators Night on Aug. 11 and feature teams from the Baker Area Youth Association as well the school’s middle school, junior varsity and varsity teams.

Crestview senior Lazarius Parks has been a Jack of all trades throughout his Bulldog football career.
If the coaches needed a big play from a wide receiver, they knew they could rely on Parks. If they needed a change of pace at running back, they would give the ball to Parks.

With the official start of fall practice earlier this week the countdown to the 2023 football season has officially started.
The Baker Gators travel to Northview Aug.18 for the Kickoff Classic with the Chiefs. They open the season at home against South Walton a week later on Aug. 25.

John Carlisle is slowly but surely settling into his new office in the Baker School fieldhouse.
The longtime Baker softball coach and assistant football coach has traded his math classroom and coaching gear for the trappings of athletic director.

It was another banner year for the Baker School boys weightlifting team. The Gators won their fourth consecutive district championship. They also placed third in the region in both the traditional and snatch out of 23 teams.

The Gators finished off the season with a strong showing at the state meet. Led by the performance of junior Carter Glenn, who won the 139-pound state title in the snatch, Baker finished fifth among 96 teams in the snatch and was ninth in the traditional.

After more than two months, of waiting since spring practice ended, high school football teams from across the state will once again be allowed to put on the pads and start hitting on August 5, a Saturday, but most teams will wait until Monday, Aug. 7.
Teams opened practice on July 31 and aren’t allowed to put on the full gear until Aug. 5.

The countdown to kick off is underway.

We are less than two months from the start of the 2023 high school football season.

Once again Baker and Crestview will battle for the playoffs and a post season run.

The countdown to kick off is underway.

We are less than two months from the start of the 2023 high school football season.

Once again Baker and Crestview will battle for the playoffs and a post season run.