Baseball Recap: Lynchburg-Clay Sets Scoring Season-High Against West Union

Mustangs

Team Score (Highest)

05/06/25 @ West Union	28
04/17/25 vs West Union	23
04/16/25 vs Vinton County	19
04/01/25 @ North Adams	15
04/22/25 @ Peebles	14

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Lynchburg-Clay). They never let the West Union Dragons get on the board and left with a 28-0 victory on Tuesday. Give the Mustangs' pitching crew some credit: that's the team's fourth straight shutout.

Christian Flowers and Caden Faust made a splash while hitting and pitching. On the mound, Flowers pitched three innings while giving up no earned runs or hits. Meanwhile, Faust struck out six batters over two innings while giving up no earned runs or hits (and not a single walk). Flowers has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than one earned run in four consecutive appearances. At the plate, Flowers went 2-for-3 with three runs, one stolen base, and one RBI, while Faust went a perfect 2-for-2 with four RBI, two runs, and two doubles. Those four RBI gave Faust a new career-high.

In other batting news, Lynchburg-Clay got a massive performance out of Quin Wells, who got on base in all five of his plate appearances with four runs and five RBI. Wells continues to improve, besting his previous run total in each of the last three games he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Cole Wells, who went a perfect 2-for-2 with four RBI, two runs, and one triple.

Lynchburg-Clay kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 25 hits. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now got at least eight hits in seven consecutive matches.

Lynchburg-Clay's win was their sixth straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 13-2. Those road victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.2 runs on average over those games. As for West Union, they are on a nine-game losing streak (dating back to last season) that has dropped them down to 0-6.

Coming up, Lynchburg-Clay will venture away from home to face off against Chillicothe at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday. As for West Union, they will welcome Peebles at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday.