After winning only one out of their first three games in Valley League play, the Waynesboro Generals have begun their comeback — winning their last six games to put them in first place in the Southern Division.
Generals’ head coach Andy Chalot said so far the season is “going along very well.”
Chalot said his team didn’t swing the bat very well the first couple of games since most players are used to playing with aluminum bats and now have to adjust to wooden ones.
He also said that the team’s defense needs more work before it’s where he wants it be.
“[Defense] is one area we want to get better,” Chalot said. “We’ve pitched well — short pitch counts. It’s slowly starting to come together.”
But what Chalot really wants from his team is that they all have the same goal in mind whenever they go out onto the diamond — to make it to the championship.
“I don’t want anyone on the team who doesn’t have that as their ultimate goal,” he said.
Chalot, who coached the Covington team last season, said it is much better to start off good than to have to fight just for a playoff chance. He recalled one season with Covington when his team was yet to be in the playoffs and there were only three games left.
“Sometimes it was a dogfight,” Chalot said of those tough games just getting to the playoffs.
Even with the championship game being his end goal for the season, Chalot encouraged his players to play the season one game at a time.
“The difference in going home in the first round of playoffs and playing in the championship is just one week,” Chalot said. “One week isn’t all that much”
But will they make it?
“It’s too early to tell,” Chalot said. “They’re a pretty tight-knit group of guys. There was no panic last night, everyone stayed in the game. When they get more comfortable, [the season] gets more comfortable.”
Chalot said teams that can’t pull together in order to win a game can’t go far.
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