New Market got what it needed with a first-and-third situation in the eighth. Waynesboro didn’t get what it wanted with its first-and-third situation in the ninth.

The Rebels got the go-ahead run on an eighth-inning sacrifice fly by Matt Ford, and Michael Davis grounded into a game-ending 4-6-3 double play to kill a Generals rally in the ninth in a 7-6 New Market win Tuesday night. (more…)

The Waynesboro Generals game at New Market scheduled for Friday has been postponed due to rain.

The game will be made up at New Market on Tuesday, July 12.

New Market took advantage of uncharacteristic wildness by Waynesboro pitchers, who issued 12 walks to Rebels hitters as New Market rolled to an easy 11-4 win.

Starter GJ Strauss (0-2) gave up six runs on three hits and six walks in an inning and a third. New Market led 7-0 heading into the bottom of the second and 11-1 in the fifth after scoring four runs off reliever Devin Smith.

Andrew Blackwell did his part to keep the game within some striking distance, posting three shutout innings and piling up six strikeouts.

The Generals mounted a brief rally in the seventh, scoring on an RBI single by Dykota Spiess, a sacrifice fly by Chase Worthington and a run-scoring double by MJ Sartin.

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Story by Chris Graham
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A two-out eighth-inning throwing error gave New Market the eventual winning run in a 4-3 win at Waynesboro Sunday night.

The Generals had rallied twice from deficits on run-scoring hits by Drew Turocy. A two-out fifth-inning Turocy single scored Colin Harrington from second to tie the game at 1-1. Then after the Rebels took a 3-1 lead in the sixth with two runs off starter Jeremy Fitzgerald, Turocy tied the game back up in the seventh with a one-out bases-loaded single that scored Harrington and Jon Clinard.

It was a Turocy error in the eighth that gave New Market the 4-3 lead. With two outs and Dan Schafferman on first base, Joe Maloney singled to center. Schafferman rounded second and was about to make it to third safely when Turocy tried to gun him down. The throw was wide of the bag and got past third baseman Chase Worthington and went into the Waynesboro dugout, allowing Schafferman to advance home.

Turocy nearly atoned for the mistake in the ninth, hitting a 1-1 pitch over the right-field fence, but the ball hooked just foul, and he struck out looking on the next pitch.

Jake Guengrich (1-0) picked up the win with two and a third innings of hitless, scoreless relief. Justin Thompson (1-1) was the tough-luck loser, giving up one run, unearned, in two innings of work.

Story by Chris Graham
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A Grant Fillipitch two-RBI single gave Waynesboro a seventh-inning lead, and a four-run ninth highlighted by an Alan Stoupa two-run single gave the Generals a 10-4 win at New Market Thursday night.

Starting pitcher Michael Reed put in a strong effort for Waynesboro, pitching into the sixth and giving up three runs on six hits, but he left with his team down 3-2 after the Rebels put up a twospot in the bottom of the sixth to take the lead.

The Generals rallied with four in the seventh, with Jon Clinard tying the game with an RBI single and Fillipitch following one batter later with his two-run hit.

It was 6-4 entering the ninth when Waynesboro put up another four on the scoreboard off Anthony Constanatos.

The comeback made a winner of Greg Smith (1-0), who pitched an inning and two-thirds of hitless, scoreless relief.

Stoupa had three hits and three RBI for Waynesboro.