Navarre’s baseball team celebrated its first district title since 2015 Friday night by engulfing Ben Waschenko under a dogpile just off the pitching mound on Niceville’s home diamond.
Looking back, a three-game stretch at the end of April and into the beginning of May proved to be nothing more than a hiccup for a Pensacola Blue Wahoos offense that has seen more good days than bad ones from an offensive standpoint during this 2019 Southern League Season.
Navarre baseball player Kaleb Hellard, a right-handed pitcher for the Raiders, has committed to play at George C. Wallace State Community College in Selma, Alabama.
Raiders 4, Panthers 3
In order for the third-seeded Navarre Raiders softball team to play for the district championship, it had to win against rival Milton last Tuesday night.
Michael Sandle had already extended his hit streak to five games an inning earlier. He was now up to bat one final time for the University of South Alabama on a sunny and warm Sunday afternoon at Stanky Field in Mobile.
The Navarre baseball team’s last week of the regular season had one ugly outing followed by a shutout performance, and then capped off the week with a lopsided final game.
