Waynesboro used a homer, three hits and five RBI from Travis Echols and eight strong innings on the mound from Tavis Bruce to ride to an easy 11-2 win over Covington in the regular-season finale for both teams Friday night.

The Generals (26-18), the #3 seed in the 2011 Valley League playoffs, will host #6 seed Rockbridge (21-23) Saturday at 7 p.m. at Mathers Park in Waynesboro in Game 1 of a best-of-three first-round series. (more…)

Ryan Ashooh pitched six scoreless innings, and Waynesboro got two two-run hits in a key seventh-inning rally from Chase Worthington and Rob Amaro, and the Generals got a big 8-4 win over Covington Friday night.

Ashooh (3-0) scattered seven hits, striking out five and walking one. He left with a 4-0 lead after six innings, but Covington closed the gap in the seventh on reliever G.J. Strauss, who gave up three runs, two earned, in a third of an inning of work.

Waynesboro loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh on walks to Brad Noland, Dykota Spiess and Jordan Walton in advance of a Worthington two-run double down the left-field line. Amaro lined the next pitch into centerfield to score Walton and Worthington. (more…)

A seven-run fourth pushed Waynesboro to a big lead, and the Generals held on for a 12-7 win over Covington Thursday night.

The score was tied at 1-1 with two outs in the fourth when Matt Petrone, who had four hits on the night, legged out an infield single. The next seven Generals reached base, chasing Covington starter Scott Garner (1-3), who gave up run-scoring hits to Dykota Spiess, Travis Echols and Scott Wilcox before being lifted. (more…)

Covington had taken five of the first six games in its series with Waynesboro, and up 6-1 heading into the sixth inning Sunday night it looked like the Lumberjacks were cruising to another win over the Generals.

But for the second time in three nights, Waynesboro erupted in the sixth inning, this time sending 12 batters to the plate and scoring nine runs en route to posting a 12-8 win over the ‘Jacks. (more…)

Shane Halley hit his second homer in four games in Waynesboro, but the Generals offense stalled aside from that long ball in an 11-1 loss at Covington Wednesday night.

Waynesboro had won three straight, including two in a row over rival Staunton, coming in, but could do nothing after the first-inning Halley homer off Covington starter Brandon Johnson (2-1), who gave up seven hits and struck out seven in eight solid innings of work.

Generals starter Ryan Poplawski (1-1) struggled on the mound, giving up eight runs, all earned, on 12 hits in four innings of work. The Lumberjacks took control with a five-run third, highlighted by an Anthony Stokes two-run homer. Stokes went deep in the eighth off reliever TJ Page.

Halley and leadoff hitter Brad Noland each had two hits for Waynesboro, which is now a game and a half behind Southern Division leader Covington.