Generals lose to New Market

BY CODY CLIFTON Correspondent
Published: July 21, 2008

Pitching and defense are normally Waynesboro’s keys to victory. Sunday they failed them to the tone of five errors and eight runs given up by starter Jeff Sinkiewicz in a 14-5 loss to New Market at the KC.
The Generals fell behind early, giving up five runs in the second and third innings.
Waynesboro attempted to fight back the entire game.
“I told the guys I was proud of them,” Waynesboro coach Lawrence Nesselrodt said. “They battled back. They never gave up, and we were a couple swings from getting back in that ballgame.”
The Generals got their first run in the fourth when Ryan Adams doubled, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on Derek Hamblen’s groundout to third.
Waynesboro scored two more in the fifth when Andrew Scherer and Greg Meleski walked. Austin Morgan’s single scored Scherer. Evan Webb’s sacrifice fly plated Meleski to shrink the Generals’ gap to 10-3, halfway through the game.
Things got interesting in the seventh inning.
With little excitement due to the blowout, the Rebels had the bases loaded when Michael Mooney flew out to Hamblen.
Hamblen threw home when Riley Cooper attempted to score. Cooper plowed over Scherer before the ball arrived. Cooper was ejected from the game on the play, clearing both benches immediately after the contact.
With the Generals still trying to claw back, Hamblen fouled a ball off the plate, striking umpire Dwight Godwin in the face after his mask had slid across his face.
Godwin managed to stay in the game until the ninth, when he took himself out of the game with facial bruising and swelling.
None of this distracted the Generals as they were able to hit the ball at a tremendous pace from the sixth inning on.
Scoring only two runs in that span, Waynesboro stranded eight runners.