Blue Wahoo Bats Go Quiet In 4-1 Loss
June 4, 2026
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos dropped game 2 to the Chattanooga Lookouts Wednesday night by a final score of 4-1.
Alex Williams (L, 2-5) got the ball in game 2 and was quickly touched up in the first inning. Carlos Jorge, who would end his night with 3 hits, led things off with a single and quickly stole his 17th base of the season to get into scoring position. Two batters later, Cam Collier knocked a two-out, run scoring single into left field to give the Lookouts an early 1-0 lead.
Chattanooga’s opener, Nick Sando, would allow nothing after a leadoff single from Cam Cannarella, facing the minimum over his two innings of work. The Wahoos would strike back against Nate Peterson (W, 3-1) in the third. Peterson gave up a booming leadoff double to Garret Forrester, which was followed by a Dylan Jasso walk and an Emaarion Boyd single to load the bases with nobody out. Primed to do damage, Cannarella would send what looked like a sacrifice fly into left field, but a perfect throw home from Jay Allen II would cut down a tagging Forrester for a double play.
With men on second and third and two away, Aiva Arquette sent a single into center field that would score Dylan Jasso, but would see Emaarion Boyd get thrown out at the plate on a strike throw from Carlos Jorge. With two runners thrown out on the bases, the Wahoos had still managed to tie the game at 1-1.
This would be all the offense Pensacola could muster while the lookouts continued to put on runs. Two more would score on a two run single off the bat of Cam Collier in the 5th, giving him all three RBIs to that point. An inning later, the Lookouts would tack on another, this time off of Wahoos reliever Nigel Belgrave, when Carlos Jorge would bring in the 4th and final run on an RBI knock to give Chattanooga a 4-1 lead.
Pensacola would manage to get at least one man on base in innings 5-8, but was never able to capitalize on the Lookouts bullpen, who went a combined 7.0 innings allowing just one run. They would go down 1-2-3 in the 9th against Jonathan Lavallee (S, 3), putting the final nail in the coffin.
Relievers Jake Christianson and Michael Perez would make their Double-A and Blue Wahoos debuts and each pitch a scoreless, hitless inning.
Pensacola would fall to a 27-26 record while the Lookouts would jump to a 28-25 record.
The Blue Wahoos continue their series against the Lookouts on Thursday.
written by Charlie Hobert
Arquette’s Late Homer Becomes Wahoos Walk-Off Winner In Rain-Shortened Win
June 3, 2026
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos “walked off” the Chattanooga Lookouts by a final score of 5-4 in seven innings on Tuesday night. The win came under an unusual yet clutch circumstance, as a three-run homer by Aiva Arquette proved to be the final at-bat for either side before a raging thunderstorm engulfed Blue Wahoos Stadium.
The Blue Wahoos (27-25) hold a 5-2 edge over the Lookouts (27-25) this season with the win today, previously taking four of six at Erlanger Park in the two teams’ first series earlier this season. The victory also elevates Pensacola to a tie for second place in the South Division of the Southern League, now just 1.5 games back from Montgomery.
It was a big night for the new guys as the fresh additions of Arquette and Cam Cannarella provided the late-game power the Wahoos needed to edge ahead of the Lookouts. Joining Pensacola and making his Double-A debut, Cannarella picked up his first hit in the seventh inning with an infield single. Arquette, who had joined the Blue Wahoos a week ago, punched his second home run in as many weeks in the same inning to effectively secure the win.
Pensacola scored five runs on six hits as five different Wahoos recorded a knock, with Fenwick Trimble posting a 2-for-3 outing with a run scored. With his two singles tonight, Trimble tied Biloxi’s Dylan O’Rae for the Southern League lead in total hits with 55.
Chattanooga opened the scoring early after a Jay Allen II sacrifice fly into left scored a runner from third. Though two initial outs spelled trouble, Pensacola answered back in the bottom of the frame. Trimble got aboard with a single that rolled slowly down the third base line, and an offline throw from Chattanooga starter Kevin Abel (L, 3-3) allowed Trimble to hustle to second.
Dillon Lewis drew a walk in the following at-bat, and a wild pitch saw both runners move into scoring position. Ryan Ignoffo delivered, driving a single through the right side to score the pair and give the Wahoos a one-run edge, 2-1.
Two scoreless innings passed before the Lookouts evened the score in the fourth inning as former Blue Wahoo Shane Sasaki singled home Allen. Chattanooga pressured with two more runs in the fifth on an opposite field two-run home run from Carlos Jorge, pulling away with a 4-2 lead.
Reliever Kade Bragg (W, 2-1), who took over for Blue Wahoos starter Jacob Miller in the fifth, held off the Chattanooga bats through the sixth and seventh with three strikeouts earned and no hits relented. Held without a hit since the fourth inning, the Pensacola offense turned a pivotal bottom of the seventh as rain began to fall. Jay Beshears drew a one-out walk, followed by Cannarella ripping a line drive that ricocheted off the glove of Abel.
With two aboard and the sky opening up, it couldn’t have been better timing as Arquette powered a no-doubter over left field for his first hit of the night. The three-run home run proved to be a walk-off as lightning danced across the sky above Blue Wahoos Stadium, earning the series-opening 5-4 victory after a futile hour-long attempt to wait out the rain.
The Blue Wahoos continue their series against the Lookouts on Wednesday.
written by Maddy Branning
Molino Ballpark 12U All Star Take First In Perdido Warm Up Tournament
June 1, 2026
The Molino Ballpark 12U All Stars took first place this weekend in the Perdido Warm Up Tournament at the Southwest Sports Complex. Photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Legends 12U Goes Undefeated To Claim Ripken Experience Championship Title
May 31, 2026
The Pensacola Legends 12U won the Memorial Day Classic tournament at The Ripken Experience in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
The Legends went 6-0 to claim the 12U title.
There were 20 teams from at least five states in the tourney.
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Milbrandt, Blue Wahoos Reach New Heights In 7-2 Win
May 31, 2026
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos beat the Birmingham Barons 7-2 on Saturday night, climbing a season-high two games above .500 behind ace starter Karson Milbrandt.
Though Milbrandt was unable to complete 5.0 innings for the first time since mid-April, the righty still racked up seven strikeouts over 4.2 frames and extended his scoreless inning streak to 27.0 innings before surrendering a two-run homer to Drake Logan in the fifth. Milbrandt’s scoreless streak, which began on May 2, ended as the second-longest in team history behind reliever Lee Hyde’s 31.0-inning streak in 2013 and the longest ever for a Pensacola starting pitcher.
The Blue Wahoos jumped ahead on Barons starter Gabe Davis (L, 0-1) in his Double-A debut, scoring four early unearned runs thanks to infield miscues. After a Juan Mathews sacrifice bunt was thrown away in the second inning, Dillon Lewis scored on a wild pitch and Dylan Jasso laced an RBI single for a 2-0 lead. They added two more in the third when a Fenwick Trimble bunt was misplayed by Davis, and Matheus and Cristian Hernández hit back-to-back RBI singles. Hernández’s knock extended his hitting streak to 10 games.
Aiva Arquette, thriving in his first week at the Double-A level since a promotion on Tuesday, stretched the Pensacola lead to 5-0 in the fourth inning with an RBI double.
Milbrandt’s scoreless streak ended in the fifth inning when Logan homered, and he allowed two more singles and a walk before departing with a season-high 97 pitches thrown. Colby Martin (W, 2-2) entered to strand a pair of inherited runners in the fifth, and ultimately worked 3.1 scoreless innings of long relief to earn the win.
Trimble hit a solo homer in the sixth and Matheus added an RBI single in the ninth to extend the lead to 7-2 before Livan Reinoso finished off the win with a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth.
The Blue Wahoos wrap up their series against the Barons on Sunday afternoon.
written by Erik Bremer
First-Year Success: Coach Paul Bryan Leads Tate Girls Track To Historic, Record-Breaking Season
May 30, 2026
The Tate High School Aggies Girls Track and Field Team celebrated a great year at their end-of-season banquet last week.
During the team’s first season under head coach Paul Bryan, the Aggies broke 11 school records, won five invitational meets and claimed both a county and district championship.
Bryan’s coaching career started at Woodham High School in 1996, and he later moved on to Pine Forest High School. In almost three decades as a track head coach, he won state championships at Pine Forest in 2010 and 2011 and finished as state runners-up at Pine Forest in 2009 and at Woodham. He also earned a half-dozen state top 10 finishes. He had won eight regional championships and 20 district titles prior to coming to Tate, and he was named the Florida Dairy Farmers Girls 3A Coach of the Year three times.
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Northview Baseball Holds Youth Camp
May 30, 2026
Northview Chiefs baseball held their youth camp on Thursday and Friday.
For two mornings, aspiring players in grades 6-8 worked on their skills, learned the game, and enjoyed pizza with Northview players and coaches.
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Wahoos Even Birmingham Series With 3-2 Win
May 30, 2026
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos edged out the Birmingham Barons by a final score of 3-2 to even the series on Friday night.
Birmingham scored first when a leadoff double from Samuel Zavala would come around to score on a sacrifice fly from reigning Southern League Player of the Week Alec Makarewicz, making it a 1-0 lead in the first inning. That lead would grow in the 3rd without the benefit of a hit. Zavala would draw a leadoff walk which would be followed by a 2-out hit by pitch to Anthony DePino and walk to Calvin Harris to load the bases. Pensacola starter Orlando Ortiz-Mayr would surrender his fourth free pass of the inning to Jeral Perez, walking in a run and making the score 2-0.
Ortiz-Mayr would work himself out of the jam, however, and give his offense a chance to get back in the game. And the offense would do just that. Ian Lewis Jr. and Garret Forrester would lead off the 5th inning with back-to-back walks before Jay Beshears would send a ball into the right field corner, scoring both runners with a game tying 2-run double. Ortiz-Mayr would work around a leadoff double in the bottom half of the inning, finishing his day off with 5.0 complete innings for his second straight start.
Jacob Heatherly (L, 0-1) would be the first out of the bullpen for the Barons to start the 6th inning. And, though he would pitch a clean 6th, he would get pulled after Forester and Beshears would both reach with one out in the 7th. Jackson Kelly would enter to face Emaarion Boyd, who would drop a bunt down the third baseline. Kelly would field it and fire the ball past the first baseman and into right field, scoring Forrester from second and giving the Wahoos a 3-2 lead.
Mason Vinyard (W, 3-1) would earn the win for Pensacola pitching a near flawless 2.2 innings, allowing just one hit and one walk. He would hand the ball to veteran Luis Palacios (S, 2), who would get the final 4 outs to earn his second save of the season and secure the victory.
The Blue Wahoos continue their series against the Barons on Saturday evening.
written by Charlie Hobert
Blue Wahoos Walked off By Barons In Birmingham
May 29, 2026
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos fell 7-4 in 10 innings to the Birmingham Barons on Thursday night, failing to hold a pair of leads and surrendering a three-run walk-off homer to Anthony DePino.
A Connor Caskenette sacrifice fly and Dylan Jasso two-run double gave the Blue Wahoos a 3-0 lead in the second against Barons starter Dylan Cumming. The next three Pensacola innings would be snuffed out by ground ball double plays turned by the Birmingham infield.
Eliazar Dishmey started for the Blue Wahoos in his Double-A debut, flashing swing-and-miss stuff before running into trouble his second time through the order. He allowed a solo homer to Drake Logan in the third, and issued a pair of walks in the fourth that came in to score on a Wilfred Veras groundout and Jorge Corona RBI single to tie the game 3-3. Dishmey allowed three runs in 4.0 innings while striking out six and walking four.
Fenwick Trimble singled, took second on an error, and scored on a passed ball in the sixth inning to put Pensacola ahead once more 4-3. Kade Bragg worked 2.1 scoreless innings of relief, but Jack Sellinger surrendered doubles to DePino and Jeral Perez in the eighth to tie the game 4-4.
The Blue Wahoos were unable to bring home their placed runner in the top of the 10th against Jonathan Clark (W, 1-0), and Colby Martin (L, 1-2) was placed in a tough spot when entering in the bottom half of the frame. After a stolen base and an intentional walk, DePino launched a walk-off blast for a 7-4 final.
The Blue Wahoos continue their series against the Barons on Friday evening.
written by Erik Bremer
Wahoos Rock Rickwood In Historic Offensive Onslaught, Beat Barons 23-4
May 28, 2026
Playing for the first time at historic Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in America, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos made some history of their own in a blowout 23-4 win over the Birmingham Barons.
Playing as the Negro League’s Pensacola Seagulls, the Blue Wahoos enjoyed the pregame celebration of the ballpark’s storied past before setting single-game team records in hits (26), homers (7) and runs scored (23). Two buses of Blue Wahoos season ticket members and gameday staff who made the trip to Birmingham and were seated above the Pensacola dugout saw a game unlike any other in franchise history.
Among the many superlatives, Fenwick Trimble went 5-for-6 with a homer, finishing a triple shy of the cycle in just the fifth five-hit game in team history. Ian Lewis Jr. hit a pair of homers and drove in four, Emaarion Boyd was 4-for-6 with a double and RBI, Juan Matheus and Aiva Arquette each hit their first Double-A homers, Jay Beshears hit the team’s first grand slam of the season, and Dillon Lewis hit his team-leading 11th homer.
Every Blue Wahoos starter had at least one hit, making things easy for starting pitcher Alex Williams (W, 2-4). The righty worked 6.0 innings in a quality start, allowing four runs, three earned. Barons starter Connor McCullough (L, 0-2) labored through 2.1 innings, allowing three first-inning runs and departing in the middle of a five-run third that put Pensacola up for good.
Matheus and Lewis Jr. each went deep in the third, and Trimble and Beshears each hit their homers in the fifth. Lewis Jr., Lewis and Arquette capped the record-setting game with homers in the ninth inning, giving the Blue Wahoos a team-record seven homers overall.
Nigel Belgrave and Gabe Bierman combined to finish off the game with 3.0 scoreless innings of relief.
With the 19-run win, tied for the most lopsided in the team’s 14-year history, the Blue Wahoos are back above .500 at 24-23 with four games remaining in their road series in Birmingham.
The Blue Wahoos continue their series against the Barons on Thursday evening.
Written by Erik Bremer