
Covington, Waynesboro split two; ‘Jacks still alive in playoff hunt
Covington held off a late Waynesboro rally to win game two of a doubleheader, 3-2, and keep its 2013 Valley League playoff hopes alive.

Covington held off a late Waynesboro rally to win game two of a doubleheader, 3-2, and keep its 2013 Valley League playoff hopes alive.

An eighth-inning JoJo Woods RBI single scored Ben Boykin with the eventual winning run to lift Waynesboro to a 5-4 win over Rockbridge Thursday night.

Harrisonburg scored six runs in the first and coasted to an easy 13-2 win over Waynesboro on Wednesday night.

Tyler Fox didn’t give up a hit until the sixth inning, but Covington rallied from an early deficit to defeat Waynesboro in 10 innings, 4-3, on Wednesday.

The 2013 WOKR International Meet will conclude on Thursday at Best Western Waynesboro Inn Suites and Conference Center in Waynesboro with the Classic Antique Car Road Games.

Four months ago, August Lupino walked with a cane, when he could walk. Then his therapist encouraged him to join the Waynesboro YMCA to start a fitness program.

Jeff Conley pitched six shutout innings, Patrick Mazeika reached base five times, and Sikes Orvis hit his first homer of the season, lifting Waynesboro to an 11-2 win at Rockbridge Monday night.

Covington scored six runs in the sixth and cruised from there to a 6-1 win over Waynesboro on Sunday night. The win pulls the Lumberjacks to within two and a half games of the Generals for the fourth and final playoff spot in the South Division.

Staunton broke open a tie ballgame with a threespot in the 13th inning, and Blake Sipe robbed JoJo Woods of a game-tying two-run single with a diving catch in the bottom half of the inning to preserve a 7-5 Braves win Saturday night.

The Waynesboro Police Department has charged a Waynesboro man with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault for incidents that occurred over a four year period beginning in the summer of 2010 and ending during the summer of 2013.
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