Joseph Lucas gave Waynesboro five and a third quality innings in his first start of the season, and a power surge led by Dykota Spiess and Devin Smith pushed the Generals to a 10-5 win over Haymarket in the nightcap of a Friday doubleheader.

Waynesboro lost the first game by a 10-3 final. The split, coupled with Staunton’3 4-3 extra-inning loss at Front Royal, puts the Generals (18-16) back in first place in the Southern Division.

Waynesboro and Staunton (17-16) play a two-game home-and-home series beginning at Staunton on Saturday. (more…)

The Valley League announced today the makeup dates for the two games lost this week to rain.

The Haymarket home game that was rained out Sunday night will now be played as part of a doubleheader at Haymarket on July 15. The makeup game will be played at 4 p.m. The regularly scheduled game at 7 p.m. will be the nightcap.

The Staunton home game will be played on Monday, June 27, at 7 p.m. at Kate Collins Field.

Tonight’s scheduled game between the Waynesboro Generals and the Haymarket Senators has been postponed due to poor field conditions following a Sunday-afternoon storm.

No makeup date has been announced.

Story by Chris Graham
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League-leading Haymarket finally solved Waynesboro, but it wasn’t easy.

The Generals jumped out to an early 5-1 lead and then rallied for three runs in the ninth before falling to the first-place Senators 10-9 Tuesday night.

The win was the first in four tries for Haymarket, which extended its lead over second-place Winchester to four and a half games with the win over Waynesboro and the Royals’ 2-0 loss at Harrisonburg.

Grant Fillipitch hit his fifth homer of the season in the first, a three-run shot that helped push Waynesboro to what became a 5-1 lead in the third. Haymarket rallied back to take a 7-6 lead with two runs in the sixth off reliever Devin Smith (0-1).

Kevin Ferguson (4-1) picked up the win for Haymarket with two scoreless innings of relief.

Waynesboro starter Jeremy Fitzgerald gave up five runs, three earned, in five innings.

Drew Turocy had four hits to raise his average to .375 for the season.

Story by Chris Graham
freepress2@ntelos.net
 

A four-run fifth gave Waynesboro the lead, and a four-run ninth provided the final cushion in a 9-3 win at first-place Haymarket Saturday night.

The Senators had jumped out to a 3-0 lead with a three-run fourth off Generals starter Taylor Sandefur (5-0), but Waynesboro rallied in the fifth with an inning highlighted by a two-run triple by Cody Hudson, an RBI sac fly by Zephan Guyear and an RBI bases-loaded walk by Terrell Thompson.

A Guyear RBI single that plated Drew Turocy made it 5-3 in the sixth, which is where things stood until the ninth, when the Waynesboro offense erupted for four more runs with RBI singles by Thompson, Jon Clinard and Grant Fillipitch and an RBI sac fly by Hudson.

Sandefur went seven innings and gave up three runs on seven hits while striking out five.

Turocy had a 4-for-6 night at the plate, and catcher Alan Stoupa was 3-for-5 with a run scored.