West Virginia Set to do Battle in Lawrence

The West Virginia Mountaineers (24-15, 7-5) are on the highway to tackle Large 12 Convention foe, the Kansas Jayhawks (17-24, 2-10) in a three-game sequence with recreation one scheduled for Friday at 4:00 pm, recreation two is about for Saturday at 3:00 and the sequence finale is Sunday with the primary pitch is slated for 1:00 pm EST. All three video games will stream on ESPN+.

West Virginia appears to be like to bounce again after a uncommon midweek residence loss Wednesday night time to Penn State. It marked the primary midweek residence loss for the Mountaineers because the 2017 season, coincidentally to Penn State. The loss was additionally the fifth within the final eight outings for West Virginia after dropping consecutive Large 12 sequence to Oklahoma State and Texas Tech however did beat Pitt at PNC park final week.

Austin Davis is hitting a team-leading .340, whereas Victor Scott has a team-best 37 RBIs and McGwire Holbrook leads the Mountaineers in slugging proportion at .513.

In the meantime, Kansas snapped a four-game shedding streak after splitting a two-game midweek sequence at Air Drive, capturing recreation two 13-9. Sophomore shortstop Maui Ahuna leads the Large 12, seventeenth nationally in batting common (.411), he’s tied for first in triples (4) and he’s second in hits (65). His .411 batting common ranks seventeenth within the nation.

West Virginia head coach Randy Mazey will hand the ball to Junior right-handed pitcher Jacob Watters (2-3, 4.42 ERA) Friday night time, earlier than sophomore left-hander Ben Hampton (6-3, 3.97 ERA) takes the mound on Saturday and fifth-year senior right-hander Zach Bravo (3-1, 5.73 ERA) will take the hill within the season finale on Sunday.

Kansas head coach Ritch Value will counter with left-hander Daniel Hegarty (4-4, 4.82 ERA) on Friday, right-hander Cole Larsen (1-6, 6.67 ERA) on Saturday and right-hander Ryan Vanderhei (5-3, 5.96 ERA) on Sunday.

The Mountaineers (24-15, 7-5 Large 12) are 16-11 all-time in opposition to Kansas. Final season, West Virginia took the three-game weekend sequence in Morgantown 2-1, outscoring the Jayhawks 28-11, and handed Kansas a gap spherical 8-7 loss within the opening spherical of the 2021 Phillips 66 Large 12 Baseball Championship.

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