A haunted house set up at the former Pensacola News Journal building on East Romana Street  netted $11,146 to help a nonprofit that aims to use athletics to improve the lives of inner-city youth.

Fear City Nights, which set up a haunted house in the former News Journal property now owned by Quint and Rishy Studer, presented the check to Pensacola Training Academy/RBI.

The funds will help purchase new training equipment for the Pensacola Training Facility on Davis Highway. A portion of the funds will be used to support RBI league play and help defray the costs of umpires and uniforms for kids who others couldn’t afford to participate, said John Myslak, chairman of the board of the baseball nonprofit.

Pensacola Training Academy is linked with Major League Baseball’s Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program.

“This equipment is needed to attract users to the academy which generates revenue to support the RBI league play program and ultimately after school academic programs,” Myslak said.