Joseph Lucas was solid in his second start of the season, and Waynesboro got four hits and four RBIs from leadoff hitter Brad Noland to beat Rockbridge 11-2. The win, coupled with Staunton’s 3-2 loss to Covington, clinches the South Division title and the #3 seed for the Generals in their final regular-season home game.

“It’s a big confidence boost clinching the division tonight. We’re confident going into the playoffs,” said Lucas, a Waynesboro High School graduate, who was dazzling on the mound in the clincher, giving up one run on six hits and striking out five in five and a third innings. (more…)

Waynesboro Generals first baseman Jordan Walton has been named the Southern Division Player of the Week.

Walton hit .364 with eight RBIs last week and had four hits and four RBIs in Waynesboro’s 9-5 win over Staunton on Sunday night. The win over Staunton clinched a 2011 playoff berth for the Generals.

For the season, Walton is fourth in the Valley League with a .375 batting average with a homer and 28 RBI.

A three-run Jordan Walton triple keyed a five-run seventh-inning rally, and another run-scoring hit by Walton aided a three-run eighth that helped bring Waynesboro back from a 5-1 deficit and push the Generals to a 9-5 win over Staunton Sunday night at Mathers Park.

The win gives Waynesboro a two-and-a-half-game lead over Staunton in the Southern Division with three regular-season games remaining. The Generals’ magic number to clinch the division and the #3 seed in the upcoming Valley League playoffs stands at one. (more…)

Waynesboro got another good effort against Rockbridge from Tim Leather, but the Generals could only manage two hits off Jordan Elliot, and the Rapids got a 3-0 win in Lexington Saturday night.

Leather (2-3) had won back-to-back starts against Rockbridge earlier in the month, and had shut out the Rapids through four before a pair of errors helped the Rapids get their first run across in the fifth when Clinton Freeman hit a grounder to short that Keith Picconi booted allowing Richard Palase to score and give Rockbridge a 1-0 lead. (more…)

Interviews with Waynesboro Generals players Ryan Ashooh, Chase Worthington, Rob Amaro and Travis Echols following Waynesboro’s 8-4 win over Covington on July 22, 2011.