Tate Gets Homecoming Win Over Milton
September 23, 2017
It was very happy Aggie homecoming Friday night in Cantonment as the Tate Aggies powered past the Milton Panthers 28-6.
Tate was first on the board with 6:28 to go in the first period at Pete Gindl Stadium on a quarterback keeper from Hunter Rigdon from six yards out, 7-0 Aggies.
With 4:22 to go in the second quarter, junior shemRiggan found Patrick Palmer on a 27-yard touchdown pass, 14-0. The Aggies repeated their Riggan to Palmer combination with 15.9 seconds in the half for another touchdown pass, this one 14 yards, to go ahead 21-0.
Rigdon gained over 60 yards on a keeper before senior Shemari Jones was in to seal another Tate touchdown, 28-6, with 9:08 in the third.
The Milton Panthers scored late in the third on a short pass. With a missed point after attempt, the score was 28-6 headed into a scoreless fourth quarter in Cantonment.
The Panthers fell to 2-2, while the Tate Aggies are 3-1 on the season.
Next week, Washington will visit the Tate Aggies at 7 p.m.
During Friday night’s game, Logan Hamlin was named homecoming queen.
We will post photo galleries with more football action photos, homecoming court, parade and more on Sunday or Monday.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Jennifer Repine, click to enlarge.
Century CI, Fountain Place In Southeastern States Manhunt Field Trials
September 23, 2017
The winners of 2017 Southeastern States Manhunt Field Trials were named at the event’s closing ceremony Firdayday. Twenty-one K-9 Teams from Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas competed in the three-day event hosted by the Escambia County Road Prison.
Single Leash Division
- First place – Apalachee Correctional Institution, average time 16:33
- Second place – Jefferson Correctional Institution, average time 18:51.5
- Third place – Rayburn Correctional Center, average time 19:45
- Fourth place – Century Correctional Institution, average time 23:28
Multi-Leash Division
- First place – Jackson Correctional Institution, average time 11:16.6
- Second place – Fountain Correctional Facility, average time 11:50.5
- Third place- Wakulla Correctional Institution, average time 12:45
- Fourth place – Holmes Correctional Institution, average time 14:36
The annual event was held in the Blackwater State Forest. Teams competed in one day and one night event, on tracks that are 1.5 miles long and two hours old. A combined average time was used to determine the winner. Single leash and multi-leash dog teams competed. Multiple tracks were laid for each day’s sessions, and the teams draw numbers for which track they would compete. Teams had an hour and a half to complete the course, collecting up to four flags along the way. Each flag collected removed one minute from the final time, and each flag missed added one minute.
Pictured top: The K-9 team from Century Correctional Institution. Pictured below: The K-9 team from Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Friday Night’s High School Football Scores
September 23, 2017
Here are scores from tonight’s high school football games in the North Escambia area:
FLORIDA
- Holmes County 42, Northview 13
- Tate 28, Milton 6
- Escambia Academy 49, Jay 23
- Crestview 38, West Florida 20
- Navarre 27, Pine Forest 14
- Catholic 28, Pensacola 14
- Choctaw 49, Pace 21
- Gulf Breeze 38, Washington 19
ALABAMA
- Andalusia 45, Escambia County 0
- Escambia Academy 49, Jay 23
- Flomaton 20, Cottage Hill Christian 7
- W.S. Neal 67, Calhoun 0
- Mobile Christian 35, T.R. Miller 21
NorthEscambia.com photo.
‘Severe Meth Addict’ Charged With ‘Viciously Beating’ Small Dog
September 22, 2017
A Cantonment woman has been arrested for allegedly “viciously beating” a small dog while it “cried out in pain”.
Heidie Creamer, 35, was booked into the Escambia County Jail on a felony animal cruelty charged.
She “intentionally and repeatedly” inflicted “unnecessary pain and suffering on a one-year old, five pound Chiweenie (chihuahua/dachshund mix) dog by picking the dog up by its back leg, raising it in the air, then viciously beating the animal while it screamed out in pain and suffering,” according to an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office report.
Creamer and her boyfriend had been living in a tent on a woman’s property on Frank Ard Road. The woman said Creamer is a “severe meth addict” and her drug abuse had grown out of hand, according to the report The woman told deputies that Creamer walked over the dog and snatched it up as as it was peacefully sleeping in the shade. After the alleged beating, she carried the dog upside down by one leg about 50 feet back to her tent. The woman said Creamer had beat the dog four or five times in the past month.
Several witnesses provided deputies with a similar account of the incident.
In their report, deputies describer Creamer’s tent and living area as “utterly filthy” with a strong body odor. The report also states Creamer was covered all over her body with festering sores and she appeared to be high on some substance.
The deputy reported that when Creamer stepped out of the tent, the Chiweenie and a Yorkie appeared to cower away and try to move away from her as if in great fear.
Creamer remained in the Escambia County Jail Friday with bond set at $5,000.
Bill Would Name Stretch Of Highway 4 The “Sen. Greg Evers Memorial Highway”
September 22, 2017
A 13-mile stretch of Highway 4 that cuts through the Blackwater River State Forest would be named after the late former Sen. Greg Evers under a measure filed Thursday by Rep. Jayer Williamson, R-Pace.
Under Williamson’s proposal (HB 171), State Road 4 would be designated the “Senator Greg Evers Memorial Highway” between Munson Highway and State Road 189 in Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties.
Evers, 62, died Aug. 21 in a single-vehicle accident near his home in Okaloosa County. Evers, a Republican, served nine years in the Florida House before his election to the Senate in 2010. Evers left his Senate seat last year to make a bid for the U.S. House but lost the Republican primary to U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Williamson’s bill is filed for the 2018 legislative session, which starts in January. If the bill passes and is signed by the governor, it would take effect July 1, 2018.
by The News Service of Florida with contribution from NorthEscambia.com
Century Library ‘Rocks’ Hide And Seek
September 22, 2017
The Century Branch Library held a “Hid and Seek” rock painting event Thursday night. Children had a chance to design and paint their own rocks to join their popular hide and seek craze. Photos by August Whorff for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Hurricane Irma Claims Filed Statewide – Including 83 Claims In Escambia County
September 22, 2017
In Hurricane Irma’s destructive wake, property insurance claims have been filed in all 67 Florida counties — including 83 damage claims filed in Escambia County.
The statewide claims range from a high of more than 55,000 claims in Miami-Dade County to half dozen in sparsely populated Liberty County, the state Office of Insurance Regulation reported Thursday.
Some 496,532 property insurance claims have been filed, representing just under $3.1 billion in potential losses caused by the hurricane.
Hurricane Irma struck the Florida Keys on Sept. 10 and then made a second landfall in Collier County, moving up the entire length of the state before exiting as a tropical storm on September 11. The insurance claims show the heaviest property losses appear to be in the southern portion of the state, where the storm was in its most powerful stages.
Of the 83 claims filed in Escambia County to date, 19 claims have been paid, five have been closed with no payment and 59 remain open.
Ernest Ward Powers Past Perdido (With Photo Gallery)
September 22, 2017
The Ernest Ward Middle School Eagles powered past the Perdido (AL) Raiders 36-6 Thursday night in Walnut Hill.
The two teams will face off again next week, as Perdido hosts the Eagles at the Poarch (AL) Athletic Complex at 6 p.m.
For a photo gallery, click here.
NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
Bad News For Walnut Hill Drivers: Temp Bridge Weeks Away
September 22, 2017
Bad news for drivers in part of Walnut Hill…expect an emergency bridge detour to last for at least a month.
That’s the word from the Florida Department of Transportation, which Wednesday ordered the emergency closure of the Arthur Brown Road bridge over Boggy Creek. The bridge near the Walnut Hill Baptist Church failed two inspections on Wednesday.
In July, work began at the location to construct a temporary road and bridge in order to construct a new permanent bridge. Thursday, FDOT officials reported that the it will take another 30 to 45 days to complete the temporary bridge. That means a minimum seven mile detour for local residents.
A new bridge, with 11-foot travel lanes, six-foot shoulders and a solid concrete barrier railing, is due to be completed next spring.
NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
Byrneville Elementary Board Of Directors Plans Meeting
September 22, 2017
The Byrneville Elementary School Board of Directors will meet on Wednesday, September 27 at 3:30 at the school.
The charter school’s board of directors meetings are open to the public.