The West Virginia Mountaineers (20-3, 2-2) are on the road to take on the BYU Cougars (13-9, 3-3) for a three-game series.

West Virginia vs. BYU Series History

West Virginia leads 2-1

Last Meeting: West Virginia 2, BYU 0 (Mar. 8, 2024, in Morgantown)

Location: Provo, Utah, Miller Park (2,204)

When: Thursday, March 27 – Saturday, March 29

First Pitch: Game 1: Thursday, March 27, 8:30 p.m. EST

Game 2: Friday, March 28, 8:30 p.m. EST

Game 3: Saturday March 29, 3:30 p.m. EST

Stream: ESPN+

Radio: Andrew Caridi (PBP), Jake Weghorst (analyst) Mountaineer Sports Network from Learfield IMG College (Radio affiliates)

WVU Game Notes

– The Mountaineers are 20-3 this season after shutting out Marshall, 7-0, on Tuesday in Morgantown. In the Big 12, WVU sits at 2-2, winning one game at Oklahoma State and going 1-2 against Arizona.

– Friday’s game against Arizona went 16 innings, the longest home game and second-longest game in WVU history.

– The Mountaineers won their first 13 games of the season, the fourth-best start in program history.

– West Virginia is currently eighth in the country with a 3.29 staff ERA, which includes seven pitchers with ERA under three.

– Steve Sabins is in his first season at the helm in Morgantown. He has spent the previous nine seasons on staff with the Mountaineers, including the past three as Associate Head Coach.

– In the Big 12 Preseason Poll, the Mountaineers were picked fourth, the highest predicted finish since joining the league.

– West Virginia has finished with a .500-or-better record in 11 of 12 seasons in the Big 12.

– The Mountaineers’ 56-game schedule features 14 meetings with teams that reached the 2024 NCAA Tournament.

– 2025 will be the 11th season the Mountaineers play at Wagener Field at Kendrick Family Ballpark. The field was named after Rick and Jay Wagener on Aug. 30, 2021, following a major gift donation to the program. Rick Wagener was a standout pitcher at WVU from 1968-71. The ballpark was renamed after alum and principal owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Ken Kendrick and his family, in 2024.

– WVU is set to play 25 home games this spring. The squad has had a winning record at the facility for eight straight years and is coming off a season in which it went 17-6 in games played in Morgantown.

– The Mountaineers are coming off a historic season in 2024, advancing to the NCAA Super Regionals for the first time in program history. WVU swept through the Tucson regional as the three seed before falling in two one-run games at North Carolina.

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A West Virginia woman is facing murder charges nearly two years after she allegedly killed her 81-year-old mother by injecting her with insulin.

Kelly Moore, now 61, had been living with her mother Ethel Moore in Grafton in May 2023 after she had been elected to care for her because she was not married and there “wasn’t anybody else” to do it, according to the Grafton Police Department.

Just before midnight on May 25, 2023, police responded to a report of cardiac arrest at the home and found Ethel Moore dead at the scene.

Moore told police that her mother’s blood sugar had spiked to 250 so she gave her 20 units of her own insulin. She added that her mother, who recently had a full hip replacement, had not been feeling well for a couple of days.

As she described her mother’s health ailments to police, officers noticed she “seemed very annoyed,” according to court documents obtained by Law&Crime.

Moore explained that her mother had heart problems, arthritis, dementia and “all kinds of s*** wrong with her” and told police “that’s why I’m here with her,” police said.

It was later claimed that on the day of her death, Ethel Moore had called her other daughter who lived in Florida and claimed Kelly Moore “wasn’t doing nothing for her,” according to the affidavit. So the sister called from Florida “freaking out” about her not helping.

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Moore reportedly checked her mother’s blood sugar twice and found that it was high both times, which led to her injecting her mother with 20 units of insulin in the shoulder.

Although Moore, who weighs about 275 pounds, is diabetic and says she is prescribed insulin, her mother, who was just 130 pounds, is not, police said. The insulin Moore injected had not been prescribed to her mother.

An autopsy determined Ethel Moore died of insulin shock and the manner of death was homicide, police said.

Kelly Moore’s sister said she was never told that her mother was injected with insulin, leading her to believe she died of complications of the hip surgery, according to court documents.

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Moore is charged with murder and is currently in custody at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail.

According to Ethel Moore’s obituary, she “liked taking trips to Walmart and McDonalds where she always found someone to talk to. She also enjoyed relaxing while reading a good book, loved spending time with her family and cherished the time she spent with each of them.”