MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (May 12, 2024) – In the final home game of the season, the West Virginia University baseball team came away victorious over Kansas State, 12-5, Sunday afternoon. The Mountaineers improve to 31-19 overall and 17-10 in the Big 12 while the Wildcats fall to 29-21 and 13-14 in conference play.
The Mountaineers celebrated the career of Head Coach Randy Mazey before the game as he announced his impending retirement before the season started. He finishes his career with a 144-73 (.663) overall record at Wagener Field at Kendrick Family Ballpark and 160-78 (.672) record in games played in Morgantown since taking over the program in 2013.
On Sunday, junior JJ Wetherholt hit a home run and drove in four in the presumed-to-be final game in Morgantown for the future first-round MLB draft pick. Sophomores Sam White and Logan Sauve each had three hits while sophomores Ben Lumsden and Skylar King both hit home runs. King also finished the day with four runs scored.
Junior Tyler Switalski struck out five while allowing five runs, just three of them earned, to earn the win. Sophomore Carson Estridge tossed three scoreless innings while freshman Joseph Fredericks had a perfect ninth to close out the game.
The Mountaineers opened the scoring in the first as senior Reed Chumley hit a double to score White from first, who was able to score easily as the center fielder could not field the ball cleanly.
In the second, Lumsden went the other way for his sixth home run of the season before Sauve tacked on one more with an RBI double.
The Wildcats got on the board with a run in the fourth, but Wetherholt responded in the home half with a three-run home run, his sixth of the season and third in the last four games.
Wetherholt collected another RBI an inning later as he walked with the bases loaded before White drove in two with a single to make it a 9-1 ballgame.
Kansas State scored four in the sixth but didn’t get any closer as Estridge came out of the bullpen and put an end to any thoughts of a rally.
The Mountaineers added a couple of more runs in the later innings as Chumley had an RBI single in the seventh while King hit his fifth home run of the year in the eighth, a two-run shot into the WVU bullpen.
West Virginia will hit the road for the final three games of the regular season, May 16-18, at TCU. First pitch from Fort Worth on Thursday is set for 7 p.m. ET. The game scheduled for May 14 at home has been canceled.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUBaseball on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
The Mountaineers celebrated the career of Head Coach Randy Mazey before the game as he announced his impending retirement before the season started. He finishes his career with a 144-73 (.663) overall record at Wagener Field at Kendrick Family Ballpark and 160-78 (.672) record in games played in Morgantown since taking over the program in 2013.
On Sunday, junior JJ Wetherholt hit a home run and drove in four in the presumed-to-be final game in Morgantown for the future first-round MLB draft pick. Sophomores Sam White and Logan Sauve each had three hits while sophomores Ben Lumsden and Skylar King both hit home runs. King also finished the day with four runs scored.
Junior Tyler Switalski struck out five while allowing five runs, just three of them earned, to earn the win. Sophomore Carson Estridge tossed three scoreless innings while freshman Joseph Fredericks had a perfect ninth to close out the game.
The Mountaineers opened the scoring in the first as senior Reed Chumley hit a double to score White from first, who was able to score easily as the center fielder could not field the ball cleanly.
In the second, Lumsden went the other way for his sixth home run of the season before Sauve tacked on one more with an RBI double.
The Wildcats got on the board with a run in the fourth, but Wetherholt responded in the home half with a three-run home run, his sixth of the season and third in the last four games.
Wetherholt collected another RBI an inning later as he walked with the bases loaded before White drove in two with a single to make it a 9-1 ballgame.
Kansas State scored four in the sixth but didn’t get any closer as Estridge came out of the bullpen and put an end to any thoughts of a rally.
The Mountaineers added a couple of more runs in the later innings as Chumley had an RBI single in the seventh while King hit his fifth home run of the year in the eighth, a two-run shot into the WVU bullpen.
West Virginia will hit the road for the final three games of the regular season, May 16-18, at TCU. First pitch from Fort Worth on Thursday is set for 7 p.m. ET. The game scheduled for May 14 at home has been canceled.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUBaseball on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
