Crestview baseball coach Tim Gillis will be one of the first to tell you Connor Riffe has a good baseball future ahead of him if he continues to put in the work.

Riffe, a junior, plays first base and outfield for the Bulldogs and leads the team in runs batted in with 10. At 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds, Riffe is one of the biggest players on the team.

A tough week for the Crestview baseball team got tougher Friday night as the Bulldogs hosted a talented Catholic team. Boy are the Crusaders talented. Catholic pounded out 11 runs and Crusader pitch Jackson Khor threw a complete game shutout in an 11-0 win that was called after six innings.

Neko Stubblefield was a whirlwind as she moved across Joel Martin’s Crestview High School classroom.

Stubblefield, a vice-president at Eglin Federal Credit Union, was on mission to pack as much financial wisdom and responsibility as possible into a class session lasting a little less than an hour.

By the time the Lady Bulldogs got their bats cranked up against Tate on Thursday night it was too little too late. The Crestview softball team managed to score four runs in the sixth and seventh innings. But the Lady Bulldogs never threatened as Tate had nine runs on the board before Crestview scored three in the sixth inning. The Lady Aggies took the game 12-4.

To paraphrase the old baseball poem, “Casey at the Bat,” there was no joy in Crestview on Tuesday night, 13 Bulldog batters struck out. The 13 strikeouts were only a small part of the story as Crestview only had two hits and nobody reached base after the fourth inning. Ironically, Jaden Appleby reached base on a third strike passed ball. The anemic offense by the Bulldogs wasted a stellar pitching performance by Anthony St. Vincent.

A quick look at Baker’s Layne Brewer and it’s obvious that he’s a young man that spends a lot of time in the weight room.

Crestview High School’s flag football team hosted Tate in the first round of the District 1-2A playoffs Monday. The game was all Lady Bulldogs as Crestview took no prisoners in a 25-0 win. The Lady Bulldogs were scheduled to take on Navarre in the semifinal at Navarre on Tuesday.

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.

It has been almost five years since lightning struck First Baptists Church of Milligan on July 9, 2019, causing a fire that destroyed the church.

The Baker School gym was filled with some of the strongest young men in the state of Florida on Saturday. A total of 266 lifters from 27 schools were on hand to take part in the Region 1-1A championship. Florida High and Maclay had the furthest trips coming 160 miles from Tallahassee. Port St. Joe made the 140-mile trip to Okaloosa County.