Chattanooga Lookouts complete sweep of Suns

By David Paschall August 19, 2012 2 min read

Lookouts

The Chattanooga Lookouts are down to just five more home games following Saturday night’s 3-2 comeback triumph over the Jacksonville Suns.

That’s five more regular-season home games.

Chattanooga is rolling toward a second straight appearance in the Southern League playoffs, having polished off Jacksonville in the first five-game sweep this season at AT&T Field. The Lookouts haven’t made consecutive playoffs since the 1995-96 seasons.

“You see it every year: It’s the team that gets hot in the end that makes the run in the playoffs,” Lookouts right fielder Blake Smith said. “Finishing strong is what we’re trying to do, and we want to carry it over in the playoffs and win this thing. If we’re going to stick around, we might as well win it. That’s our goal.”

The Lookouts improved to 33-22 in the second half and are 65-58 overall with 15 games remaining. They started Saturday three games ahead of Jackson in the North Division’s second-half race and five games ahead of the rest of the division in the wild-card chase.

David Paschall

David Paschall has covered sports at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 1999 and wrote for the Chattanooga Free Press in the nine years before that. David has mostly covered college athletics, with a focus on the University of Georgia from 2000 to 2019 and the University of Tennessee since 2020. He grew up in Chattanooga and is a graduate of the Baylor School and Auburn University. David has received multiple writing awards and has served as a Heisman Trophy voter since 2003. He has also worked in radio in Chattanooga and has been on the SEC Network's "Classic Rewind" series since 2014. David and his wife, Kelly, have three children — Conner, Emily and Spencer.

Contact David Paschall at dpaschall@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6524.