SHENANDOAH JUNCTION — With its pitchers muzzling all opponents’ bats and offenses, Jefferson has been beating the inclement weather and its opposition. Over the past weekend the Cougars stopped Bridgeport, 4-1, and George Washington, 6-1, to extend their latest winning streak to 13 straight games.

And the pitcher-rich team has won enough times to extend another positive streak of note to 46 years. This 2023 season makes the 46th consecutive season a Jefferson team has won at least 20 games.

Stopping Bridgeport on only two hits, was the pitching product of starter Riley Morgan (5.2 innings of bat-stuffing work, two hits allowed, four walks and eight strikeouts) and reliever Caleb Fletcher (1.1 innings, 0 hits, 0 walks and two strikeouts).

Fletcher got credit for the win, when Jefferson snapped a 1-1 tie in the top of the seventh with three runs.

Jefferson made the most of the three hits it gleaned off Indian pitching.

In a second game played on Saturday on Bridgeport’s neutral field, Jefferson defeated George Washington (Charleston) behind the low-hit pitching of Ryan Kelly (six innings, three hits, two walks and two strikeouts) and Fletcher (one inning, 0 hits, 0 walks and two strikeouts).

Jefferson collected 10 hits off Patriot pitching, with Ryan Hefner going 3-for-4, scoring two runs and driving in two runs and Morgan going 2-for-4 with an RBI to help the run-scoring cause.

Through games as of April 30, the Cougars had lost only four times.

A number of regular-season games remained to be played this week if the weather cooperates at all.

This past Monday had the Cougars at home against Martinsburg and then on Tuesday they were to travel to Spring Mills, before going to Warrenton (Va.) to play Highland on Wednesday and be on the road again on Thursday to oppose Smithsburg (Md.).

The three-school Sectional Tournament is scheduled to begin the week of May 8, with Jefferson showing a 4-0 regular-season record in games against Hampshire and Washington.

Should the Cougars keep on winning they would enter the Regional Tournament, scheduled to begin on May 22. The opponent in a Regional event would come from the survivor of a Sectional that has Musselman, Martinsburg, Hedgesville and Spring Mills.

The Regional champion qualifies for the four-team State Tournament in Charleston.

Jefferson’s long winning streak has given it a 22-4 record to carry into this week’s heavy schedule that was to begin against visiting Martinsburg High School.