WVU Release WVU Baseball - Mountaineers Drop Opener at TCU

[Vernon]

FORT WORTH, Texas (May 16, 2024) – The West Virginia University baseball team fell to TCU, 6-3, on Thursday to open the final series of the regular season. The Mountaineers drop to 31-20 overall and 17-11 in the Big 12 while the Horned Frogs improve to 31-17 and 14-14 in conference play.



Sophomore Ben Lumsden hit a home run while sophomore Logan Sauve drove in a run as part of two-hit night. Sophomore Skylar King and juniors Brodie Kresser and JJ Wetherholt also had hits on the evening for the Mountaineers.



TCU jumped out to an early lead with a run in the first and two in the second before Lumsden got the first hit of the night for the Mountaineers, an opposite-field solo shot, his seventh home run of the season.



After the Horned Frogs put two on the board in the fourth, Sauve got one run back with an RBI single. However, TCU got the run back in the home half with a run-scoring groundout.



Down four in the eighth, West Virginia loaded the bases with nobody out, but could only manage one run on a Reed Chumley sacrifice fly.



On the mound, senior Hayden Cooper suffered the loss by giving up five runs in 3.2 innings. Sophomore Luke Lyman struck out a pair in 1.2 perfect innings while sophomore Robby Porco had a strikeout in a scoreless inning as well.



The two teams will meet again tomorrow for game two of the series at Lupton Stadium with first pitch set for 7:30 p.m. ET.



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[WVUALLEN]

Need to win this series. Get last 2.

Sure seems like it's turning into another season ending collapse.

 

[The Bell Tolls for Thee]

3rd place finish is the best case and that would not only require 2 wins, but also losses by Texas and/or OSU. OU locked in at 1. Can't tie OSU as they hold the tie breaker, so they'd have to lose all 3 to cellar dweller Houston. Not sure how a tiebreaker works with Texas since we didn't play them this year, but if they drop 2 more games and we win 2, it's a moot point.

 

[WVUALLEN]

3rd place finish is the best case and that would not only require 2 wins, but also losses by Texas and/or OSU. OU locked in at 1. Can't tie OSU as they hold the tie breaker, so they'd have to lose all 3 to cellar dweller Houston. Not sure how a tiebreaker works with Texas since we didn't play them this year, but if they drop 2 more games and we win 2, it's a moot point.

Texas owns Tie Breaker over WVU by virtue of winning 2 of 3 from OSU and WVU was 1-2 vs OSU.