Greater Beckley Christian and Webster County Battle for the Class A Region 3 Baseball Title - Hopefully

No one would go as far to say that the weather forecasters do not like Greater Beckley Christian and Webster County baseball, but the elements have clearly not been their friend.

Two games during the regular season and a make-up date were all rained out.

So, it should come as no surprise that the first meeting of the regional championship series ultimately met the same fate.

Continuous rain Tuesday washed out game one of the best-of-3 series, moving the contest to Wednesday in Beckley - hopefully.

While each team has the benefit of some film, the teams will mostly be a mystery to each other when the first pitch is thrown.

The Crusaders (15-10) are the top seed in the region beating Greenbrier West and Mount View to advance to the championship.

The Highlanders (11-12) defeated Montcalm and Richwood to punch their ticket to the finals.

Isaac Snyder leads Webster County hitting .458, followed by Logan Brown at .418. Snyder has 33 hits and 22 RBI, while Brown has 23 hits and 10 RBI. Hunter Skidmore has 20 hits.

Maddox Brown also provides firepower for the Highlanders with 24 base knocks. Brown has been the workhorse on the hill pitching 66 innings with a 9-2 record and 74 strikeouts.

Joston Lewis has logged 35.2 innings for Webster County.

Eli Gunter, Isaac Lewis and Kaden Bolen have had the hot sticks for Greater Beckley.

Gunter has collected 36 hits, including 11 doubles and a home run. Gunter also has 23 RBI, scoring 34 times. Lewis has 32 hits with 14 going for extra bases and has scored 42 runs. Bolen leads the team with 27 RBI.

Pitching has been a little hot and cold for the Crusaders with Jayden Nguyen and Collin Howell logging the majority of the innings. Howell has 48 strikeouts in 36 innings, while Nguyen has fanned 43 over 42 innings of work.

Howell secured the championship berth for Greater Beckley with a three-hit shutout over Mount View, fanning 12 batters

Game two will move to Upper Glade, with game three returning to Beckley if needed.

The winner of the series advances to the state tournament at Go Mart Park in Charleston, June 5-7.