In what has become as much a signal of the arrival of spring as warm days and blooming azaleas the Baker boys weightlifting team claimed a sixth-consecutive District 1-1A championship on Wednesday. Led by double wins from Tyson McBride (154), Lane Cato (183), Joseph Blackshear (199) and Leroy Pierce (238) the Gators claimed both the Olympic and Traditional titles at the meet.

Tyler Zessin, a 2012 Laurel Hill School graduate, has traded the blue and gold of his alma mater for the green and white of Florala (Ala.) High School.

A former standout on the Laurel Hill basketball and baseball teams, Zessin played basketball for his father, Kent Zessin, and baseball for Ronnie Smith.

If a basketball player that spends all their time in the gym shooting baskets is a gym rat it only makes sense that the tennis player always honing his skills is a court rat.

Many students that are lifelong residents of Crestview dream of the day they will get to Crestview High School for the final leg of their journey in the Okaloosa County School system.

I hadn’t started kindergarten when I attended my first live softball game. It was a church league game of slow pitch, and my dad was playing.
I remember being amazed that Dad, being so old in his late 20s, could still run. What I don’t remember is having free run of the area around the field’s fence.

The age-old question of whether a baseball team starting spring break or ending spring break might have been answered on Friday night when Crestview traveled to Pensacola to take on Pine Forest. Okaloosa County schools were scheduled to return to class on Monday, March 25 while Escambia County students were celebrating the start of the week away from the classroom Friday evening. In this case it was the team returning to school that had the upper hand. Or it might just be that the Bulldogs are better than Eagles in taking the 9-2 win.

Joe Morse, the younger of the Baker baseball team’s Morse brothers, does have one thing he can hold over his older brother, Judah.

Baker School baseball coach Preston Nixon summed up Tuesday’s game between the Gators and visiting Winona Miss., well.

Stan Lewis, senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Crestview is, like most preachers, a storyteller.

Each week pastors open the Bible and share the real-life stories of men like Abraham, King David, Ezekiel, the Apostle Paul and, of course Jesus.

The Crestview High School tennis team played host to Fort Walton Beach last Tuesday with the Bulldogs taking down the Vikings 7-0 in match play.