The Pensacola Blue Wahoos edged Biloxi 3-2 Wednesday in Mississippi.
Down 4-3 in the eighth, Will Banfield put the Blue Wahoos back in business with a game-tying home run. Norel Gonzalez then hit a homer to put Pensacola ahead for good.
Michael Sandle is still playing High-A baseball for the Asheville Tourists while Matt Cronin remains on the injured list for the Triple A Rochester Red Wings.
They are graduates of Navarre and the first two former Raiders to play professional baseball.
Navarre head coach Jay Walls now has time to sit back and evaluate the way things went this spring for his Raider football team.
It all wrapped up two weeks ago with a spring game against rival Gulf Breeze, and while the final score of the varsity half didn’t favor the Raiders, Walls thought there was a lot of good from that game and the spring as a whole.
Rising senior Calyn Rounsaville is already committed to NCAA Division II Montevallo for softball.
How the Navarre standout was first noticed by the Falcons is kind of a funny story.
Dante Wright has a new home as a college football player.
But forget that he will play out East this fall at Temple instead of out West where he’s been the last few years as a wide receiver for Colorado State.
Kamal Rustom was planning on just going to school. He had no intentions of lifting weights competitively after high school.
And then a successful performance at the Navarre Invitational his senior year changed his course. Someone from Mars Hill connected with Raider head football coach Jay Walls and that set things in motion.
Emily Madril spent a little time two summers ago working with players from Navarre United at a camp. She was still at Florida State at the time.
Now the Navarre alum is in her first year as a pro with the Orlando Pride and is taking that connection with the local soccer club to another level.
