Generals get win in first game of Sunday doubleheader

Story by Chris Graham
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Chastin Akers picked six strong innings in his first start of the Valley League season, and Waynesboro got the win in the first of two on Sunday, knocking off Covington, 6-4.

Akers (1-0) gave up three runs on seven hits in his second appearance of the season. The 6-7 lefty from Concord got some help early as the Generals scored three runs in the bottom of the first aided by a pair of Covington errors, including one on a one-out grounder by Drew Turocy that allowed Colin Harrington and Cody Hudson to score.

Chase Worthington had a pair of sacrifice-fly RBIs for Waynesboro, which had already clinched a playoff berth on Saturday night when Woodstock lost to Winchester.

The win pushes Waynesboro for the moment into fifth place a half-game ahead of idle Harrisonburg.

The Generals host Staunton at 7 p.m. in their regular-season home finale.

Thursday’s game postponed due to weather

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The Covington Lumberjacks-Waynesboro Generals game scheduled for Thursday has been postponed after Waynesboro was hit by a severe storm Thursday afternoon.

The game will be played on Sunday at 1 p.m. as part of a day-night doubleheader. Waynesboro will host Covington at 1 p.m., and then play at home against the Staunton Braves in the regular-season home finale at 7 p.m.

Generals split pair in Covington

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Jaryd Summers was solid in his first start for Waynesboro, pitching five shutout innings in an 8-0 win for the Generals, who split a doubleheader with Covington Friday night. The Lumberjacks took game two of the doubleheader by a 4-2 final.

Summers, a 6-5, 220-pounder from West Virginia University, struck out seven and walked four while giving up two hits in five innings in the first game of the twinbill. Drew Turocy paced the offense with a 3-for-3 night at the plate with two RBI and two runs scored.

Brian Atkins (1-3) was the tough-luck loser in game two. Atkins had a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the fifth on the strength of a two-run single by Haskell Fink in the top of the inning, but a Richie Rodriguez single tied it at 2-2, and a two-run single by Giuseppe Papaccio broke the tie.

Casey Selsor (3-0) got the win for Covington, and Andre Vasquez got his second save of the season with a 1-2-3 seventh.

The games were both seven innings each to accommodate the doubleheader, which included a game made up from a rainout in Waynesboro earlier in the week.

Another rainout

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Tuesday night’s game between the Waynesboro Generals and the Covington Lumberjacks has been postponed due to rain and forecasts of possibly heavy rain in the area ongoing through the evening.

No makeup date has yet been set for the game.

Generals get second in a row

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A pair of RBI singles by Drew Turocy and seven quality innings from Taylor Sandefur highlighted an 11-7 win by the Waynesboro Generals over the Covington Lumberjacks Sunday night.

Sandefur (3-0) gave up seven runs, four earned, in seven innings and had 11 strikeouts on the night. The game was tied at 7-7 in the eight when the Generals pushed across three runs, including one on a Covington error that allowed Terrell Thompson to score and two more on the second of Turocy’s RBI base hits that scored Jon Clinard and Cody Hudson.

Thompson knocked in a run in the ninth to add to the cushion for Waynesboro, which won its second game in a row after ending a four-game losing streak Saturday night with a 6-4 win over Haymarket.

The win Sunday night moves the Generals to three games back of first-place Harrisonburg and Winchester in the Valley League standings.

Waynesboro has a day off on Monday and returns to action at Mathers Park on Tuesday with a 7 p.m. home tilt against Front Royal.

‘Jacks romp, 14-5

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Hoo, boy, that was ugly. Six Waynesboro errors led to eight unearned Covington runs that the Lumberjacks used as the foundation to their 14-5 shellacking of the Generals Wednesday night at Mathers Park.

Starting pitcher Brian Adkins was cruising with a 2-0 lead with two outs in the fifth before back-to-back RBI hits by Andrew Longley and Mike Martinez knotted the score at 2-2. A two-out sixth-inning error by Waynesboro first baseman T.J. Kuban opened the floodgates to three unearned Covington runs that allowed the ‘Jacks to take a 5-2 lead.

The Generals rallied for three in the bottom of the sixth with the big blow a two-run single by catcher Chris Colquhoun, but Covington broke the game open in the seventh with four more unearned runs off Waynesboro reliever Dylan Ray (0-1).

Martinez put the game out of reach with a long grand-slam home run to left in the ninth.

Grant Fillipitch and Drew Turocy each had three hits for Waynesboro.