This is South Weston, Welcome Home.
Where generations old and young wear the flying LC with pride. A group of underdogs, playing with passion & tradition while carrying the pride of an entire County on its shoulders. One Town. One Team. One Dream.
Will Hunt (
@WillHunt_21
) has earned tonight’s Player of the Game after his Perfect Game against Big Ten foe Grafton!
Will also went 1-3 at the plate with a 2B 2 RBI and a R! 💪🏼💪🏼
🚨PERFECT GAME ALERT🚨
Lewis County goes on the road and defeats Grafton 10-0 in Big Ten play on the backs of Will Hunt’s (
@WillHunt_21
) perfect game! 💪🏼🔵
Lewis County lost a great teacher, administrator, board member, and supporter. The school flag will remain at half staff through May 22nd in his honor. Thank you Mr. Paul Derico for everything that you have done our students! RIP
Senior Will Hunt (
@WillHunt_21
) earned Player of the Game in last nights Big Ten Conference win over East Fairmont after a monster night on the mound and at the plate! 💪🏼
Chills. Absolute chills. This is the news footage from the last time your Minutemen won a Regional Championship!
To say last night was special would be an understatement.
🎥: Scott Walker & WDTV
The honors continue to roll in for your Minutemen after a historic season!
Congrats to all of our All-State guys for the 2023 season! ‘24’s Trenton Hunt & Joey Aman were named to the 2nd-Team. ‘23 Grant Mealey & ‘24 Brayden Carder were named Honorable Mention! 💪🏼
Congratulations to Brayden Carder who earned yesterday’s Player of the Game and also picked up his 1st career Varsity win on the mound. He also added a hit with 3 RBI’s at the plate 💪🏼
Zane McCord (
@ZaneMccord
) earned tonight’s Player of the Game after his complete game shutout win against Elkins!
Zane also went 1-3 at the plate with 2RBI’s 2 R’s and a SB 💪🏼
2022 Offensive Player of the Year: ‘23 Grant Mealey (
@grant_mealey
)
Grant led the Minutemen offense in hits (29), singles (21), triples (1), home runs (1), runs (23), batting average (.426), on-base percentage (.524), slugging (.588) & OPS (1.113) while having a 57.32% QAB%
2023 Coaching Spotlight
Joining the Minutemen staff this year is Leo White (
@leowhite_19
). Leo played at LCHS from 2014-2018 and was a part of the 2017-2018 sectional championship team before moving onto West Virginia Wesleyan! Welcome back Leo! 💪🏼
Had the tying run at the plate and ended up falling short to a good Winfield team
Only one team leaves the season happy, this is the hardest part. What a run it was for this group of guys. Seniors, thank you and you’ve earned everything that’s came our way. We’ll be back!
Due to incoming weather towards the end of the week, we have moved Senior Night up to tonight’s game vs. BU!
Come support our guys playing in their final game in South Weston! 👏🏼
Finally, it’s time! An opportunity to play for a State Championship is on the line tonight!
Send off starts at 1:00pm. Pack the streets blue and follow us down to Charleston! We’ll see y’all there Lewis County!
Congratulations to Grant Mealey (
@grant_mealey
) on being named 2nd Team All-Big Ten! 💪🏼
As our 3-hole hitter, Grant went 28-85 (.329 avg), 8 2B, 3 💣, 30 RBI, 25 R, 22 HBP/BB, .467 OBP, .529 SLG, .997 OPS. & 5 SB. He also had a .877 F% while playing Third Base!
2022 Pitcher of the Year: ‘24 Brayden Carder (
@bcarder_23
)
Dealing with an injury this season, Brayden made just 7 starts on the bump throwing 30 innings for the Minutemen. He allowed just 17 earned runs for a 3.96 ERA while striking out 24 batters.
With the regular season over, our sights are set on the postseason.
Your Minutemen have earned a first round bye in Sectionals as the
#2
seed. We’ll open up Tuesday at 6, in South Weston!
#wvprepbase
GAMEDAY!
For a second straight year, we’re playing for a Sectional Championship. We’ll see you at 6:00pm!
#2
Lewis County @
#1
Nicholas County
📍Summersville, WV
⛅️65°
#GoBlue
#wvprepbase
With most of the College Baseball world getting started this week, we would like to wish our former Minutemen good luck this season! Keep making us proud fellas 💪
@WillHunt_21
- Fairmont State
@JonahClem
- Glenville State
@grant_mealey
- Davis & Elkins
We would like to wish our guy Joey Aman (
@JosephAman10
) and the entire Lewis County Boys Soccer team luck as they head to Beckley to compete in the State Tournament for the first time in school history!
Let’s Go Lewis!
The Minutemen get the win on Memorial Day! 6-2 over
#5
Roane County. Lewis has advanced to the Sectional Quarterfinal to face
#1
Herbert Hoover tomorrow at 6:00pm!
#wvprepbase
We would like to wish the Maids Basketball team safe travels and the best of luck as they head to Charleston to compete in the State Tournament today!
#GoBlue
🔵
It’s a good night to be a Minuteman wherever you may be! On the backs of Brayden Carder, Lewis County travels to Bridgeport and takes down the
#7
Indians!
🔵Carder: CG, W, 5 H, 0 R, 1 BB & 8 K
🔵Hunt: 2-4, 2B, HR, RBI & R
🔵Mealey: 1-4, RBI
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It’s another great night to be a Minuteman wherever you may be! Your Minutemen roll in Game 1 of the Regional Championship!
🔵Mealey: 3-4, 💣, 6 RBI, 3 R
🔵Carder: CG, W, 2 H, 1 R, 2 BB. 4 K. 1-3, 2 R
🔵J. Aman: 3-3, 4 R
🔵Jeffries: 3-4, 2B, 2 R
#wvprepbase
Joining the Minutemen coaching staff as an Assistant Coach/Pitching Coach for the season will be Connor Johnson (
@connor02johnson
).
Connor was a part of 2 sectional championship teams here at LC before moving on to Glenville State. Welcome back 👏🏼
Pitcher of the Week (5/9-5/14):
‘24 Trenton Hunt (
@TrentonHunt8
)
Trenton made 1 start and 1 relief appearance this week going 7 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 3 K with a 3.00 ERA. Hunt went 1-2 on the mound this year making 6 appearances with a 2.69 ERA!
How ‘bout them Minutemen?!? Sectional Champs has a nice ring to it! It’s a good night to be a Minuteman wherever you may be!
🔵J. Aman: 2-4, 💣, 4 RBI, 3 R & SB
🔵Hunt: CG, 3 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 5 K. 2-4, 2 B, 4 RBI & R
🔵R. Aman: 2-4, 2 RBI
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