No. 24 Mountaineers Even Series with No. 3 Oklahoma State – West Virginia University Athletics

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The No. 24-ranked West Virginia College baseball group earned a 5-2 win over No. 3 Oklahoma State on Saturday afternoon at Wagener Discipline at Monongalia County Ballpark.
 
The Mountaineers by no means trailed within the center sport of this weekend’s three-game, Massive 12 Convention set. The squad used a pair of lengthy balls, in addition to aggressive baserunning and powerful pitching to even up the sequence.
 
Sophomore left-handed pitcher Ben Hampton was awarded the win, bumping his document to 6-2 this season, whereas fifth-year senior right-hander Trey Braithwaite was credited along with his fourth save of the 12 months. Oklahoma State’s Victor Mederos took the loss.
 
WVU scored a run within the second, two extra within the third and one every within the fifth and seventh to safe the victory.
 
“This wasn’t a lot totally different (from Friday’s sport) so far as competitiveness,” WVU coach Randy Mazey stated. “It was two groups preventing for first place – two actually good groups. Each groups have plenty of struggle in them. We simply occurred to win the struggle at the moment.”
 
The Mountaineers (22-11, 6-2 Massive 12) opened the scoring within the backside of the second with sophomore infielder Nathan Blasick’s solo dwelling run. An inning later, sophomore catcher McGwire Holbrook added to the lead with a monstrous, two-run shot down the road in left to make it 3-0.
 
OSU (25-10, 8-3 Massive 12), nevertheless, bought a run again in third to shut the hole to 3-1. However Hampton restricted the harm, getting out of a bases-loaded jam with a comebacker to the mound for the third out.
 
The Cowboys added a run within the fifth to chop the deficit to 3-2. Moments later, Holbrook prolonged the Mountaineer result in two once more on an RBI groundout, earlier than he drove in his fourth run of the afternoon with a sacrifice fly within the seventh.
 
Hampton logged 5.1 innings, permitting two runs on 4 hits with 5 strikeouts. He threw 111 pitches earlier than yielding to redshirt junior right-hander Noah Quick, who additionally was efficient. The Scott Depot, West Virginia, native was excellent in 1.2 innings, which led to Braithwaite slamming the door within the eighth and ninth.
 
WVU stole seven bases within the win, together with 4 from junior outfielder Victor Scott II. The Powder Springs, Georgia, native now has 30 swipes on the 12 months, good for the single-season WVU document.
 
Moreover, the Mountaineers have now tallied 115 stolen bases as a group this season, which stands at No. 1 in this system’s single-season document e-book.
 
“That is a part of our offense,” Mazey stated. “It makes it actually, actually powerful to pitch once you play towards a group with a lot velocity. … I like when our guys run.”
 
With the win, WVU improved to 5-2 towards ranked opponents this spring. The Mountaineer victory additionally units up the sequence’ rubber match with the Cowboys on Sunday afternoon. First pitch is ready for 1 p.m. ET.
 
Sunday is Youngsters’ Day, which includes a Youngsters Zone, inflatables (climate allowing) and Mr. Tornado, the balloon animal artist. Youngsters can also run the bases and seize autographs from the group after the sport and obtain buying and selling playing cards of the 2022 Mountaineers.
 
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