A familiar theme for the Crestview tennis team unfolded Friday as the Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs host Lincoln High School out of Tallahassee. As has been the case throughout the year, the more experienced Bulldogs came away with a 6-1 win while the younger Lady Bulldogs are still experiencing growing pains losing to the Lady Trojans 6-1.

It was as easy as one, two, three for the Lady Bulldogs in Crestview’s home football game with Fort Walton Beach on Friday. Maybe it wasn’t that easy, but three touchdowns by Kennedy Baluran proved to be the difference as Crestview beat the Lady Vikings 25-20.

Powered by an eight-run second inning, the Baker baseball team made quick work of Laurel Hill in a battle of North Okaloosa County neighbors and District 1-1A rivals. When the game ended after the top of the fifth inning due to the run rule, the Gators had a 13-2 win in their return to action after spring break.

Baker School hosted a track and field meet on Thursday with five other schools in attendance. Joining the Gators and Lady Gators were Rocky Bayou Christian, Walton, Paxton, Vernon and a group of junior varsity athletes from Crestview. When the final scores were tallied it was Baker coming out on top in both the boys and girls competitions.

When the umpire yelled, “Play Ball,” to start the baseball game between Crestview and Pace on Wednesday night, it’s doubtful anyone present realized how long the Bulldogs and Patriots would play. The game was one part an endurance contest and two parts a pitching battle that went 12 innings. In the end, it was a great high school baseball game. And as the cliché goes, it was ashamed one team had to lose.

Baker softball coach Mark Wilde smiles when he talks about sophomore catch Addie St. John.

The talented 10th grader is the type of player every coach dreams of. She has anchored the infield at third base, can play all four infield slots as well as the three outfield positions.

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.

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.