photo by: Kim North

Wheeling’s Seth Cover delivers a pitch plateward on Sunday against Parkersburg. The righty struck out five and walked one while allowing just four hits as Post 1 picked up a 12-1 win in five innings to complete a 4-0 weekend.

MORGANTOWN — Wheeling Post 1 breezed to its 19th West Virginia American Legion Baseball State Tournament championship Monday afternoon with a 6-0 blanking of Beckley Post 32 Bash on Dale Miller Field inside Mylan Park.

Wheeling Central alum Seth Cover went the distance on the mound, allowing just three hits.

Post 1 scored solo runs in the third and fourth frames before busting the game wide open with four tallies in the bottom of the sixth.

Brady Ernest homered in the four-run outburst, while Chris Upton doubled down the right field line to knock in two.

Upton was voted the tournament’s Most Valuable Player.

Wheeling now advances to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament on Wednesday, Aug. 6, when it meets the New Jersey state champion at 9:30 a.m. at Joe Cannon Stadium in Hanover, Md.