While we were waiting to find out whether or not we were going to get to host our home opener last Friday the phone rang with news from Knoxville, Tennessee that my Mother has passed away. Mom had been ill for a while and we knew the time was near, just not that close.

        Earlier today, on what would of been her 74TH Birthday, we held the Funeral services in the Cumberland Gap portion of Tennessee. The amount of folks that checked in and passed on their well wishes truely touched me and my family and for this I am incredibly grateful. With this is mind I wanted to share a few pics of the family with those who took the time to check on us over the past few days.

       We did a number of speeches and held meetings throughout the off season and we tossed out a number of ideas early on. One of those ideas was to walk from one park to another on one of the nights that Staunton played Waynesboro. The hope was to try and draw attention to our ball club and how close it was between the two parks. All of the ideas we had talked about have been put in to place except two, one being the walk and the second being John creating a Waynesboro Generals Hall of Fame.

        This Friday (June 12TH) I will be able to scratch my part of the left-to-do-list off when I make the trek down US-250 from John Moxie Stadium over to Fishburne Military School Park. The walk for me will now be the Bea Carter Memorial Walk.

      Thanks again for all the Kind words!

 

The Waynesboro Generals have announced their Summer Camp dates for 2009. The team will host 2 camps at Kate Collins with one camp taking place in June and the second one coming in July.

* The camps are open to Baseball players ages 8 years old and up.

*The camps will take place at Fishburne Military School Park @ Kate Collins Field.

* The time of the camps will be from 9:00 A.M. until Noon each day.

* The players will receive Coaching from Head Coach Andy Chalot as well as Kurt Davidson.

* Session #1 will be held on June 17, 18 & 19

* Session #2 will be held on July 22, 23 & 24

* Cost of the Camp is $60.00 per player.

  Flashing back to the night that Bruce Alger called me and said he  had given my number to Mr. Jim Critzer about the Waynesboro Generals, I see a lot of things that have transpired. The past 6 months have been operating on Blind Faith that it would all make sense one day.

        It happened last night, not because there was a basaeball game going on in the background. But because I was able to see the planning of so many things come alive and that they put smiles on our fans faces. I had stated all along that my efforts would be for the fans, about the fans and when it is in doubt- consider the fans.

       The Staunton Braves came to town and got the best of our Home Town Nine last night but here is what I noticed.

Trailing 9-1 late in the game, our fans (625 total) were still in their seats. I have been to enough ball games over the years to know it is rare that the level of interest  doesn’t wander at the end of a blow out defeat. A Sunday night makes it a work night and we are Thankful for the support of Team Waynesboro!

Great night at the Park and we are already working on ways to improve for Thursday night.

Thank You to every fan that came to The Fish last night !

Hope to see you back at the Park soon.

It is 7+ hours until we take the diamond to face our Augusta County rivals and the park is already a buzz. Denny Walling is going to be joining us here at the park as well as what we hope is a slew of fans from both sides of I-81!

 

More Later…

WAYNESBORO…300…100…001-  5 / 11 /2

COVINGTON……020…001…000- 3/   3  /0

 

10:37 -UNDEFEATED !!!!! Time to go deliver the newspapers…

10:31- WVU’s Chris Enourato looking for the Save…

10:29- We score! We score ! Now 5-3! Another hit but this time runner out at plate. Three outs away…

10:25- 1ST & 2ND, no outs… Can we score ?

10:11- Heading to the 9TH- Up with 4-3

10:00- LJacks strand a runner on 2ND, head to 8TH up 4-3 !

9:47- 7TH inning stretch- slim lead…

9:40- Oh no. Lumberjacks go yard, lead now down to 4-3

9:33- Middle of 6TH- Marshall still on hill!

9:24- Heading to the top of 6TH

9:05 – Heading to the top of the 5TH – Leading 4-2

8:56- Middle of 4TH – UP 4-2 after Stafford hustles up a Run.

8:27 P.M. – End of 2ND – Generals 3, Lumberjacks 2/ 8:39 P.M. – End of 3- Up 3-2

On the mound – Ricky Marshall (Austin Peay)

First Home Run for WG – Tony Caldwell (Auburn)

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 * Wednesday was a wash out with Stuarts Draft of the RCBL. The same was true last night when we looked to host Rockbridge in the season opener. Don’t forget the washed out Home Run Derby back on the night of the Ribbon Cutting ceremony.

        With all of that said, we should finally celebrate the 1ST pitch of Team Waynesboro here in just a moment. Down at Casey Field in Covington, Va. Big night for our skipper Andy Chalot as he returns to face the team he led to the VBL Championship series last year. Andy will be facing 9 Lumberjacks he managed in the summer of 2008.