Mountaineers handle Marshall in Charleston
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The No. 15 West Virginia University baseball team completed the season sweep of Marshall with a 7-2 victory at GoMart Ballpark, Tuesday night in the state capital. The Mountaineers improve to 32-12 while the Thundering Herd fall to 21-27.
Sophomore Gavin Kelly hit two home runs on the night, his second multi-home run game of the season, to give him a team-leading 10 this year. Sophomore Matt Ineich hit his fourth home run of the season as part of a 2-for-3 night.
Sophomore David Hagen earned the win by allowing just one run in 5.0 innings of work, striking out one and allowing three hits. Graduate student Reese Bassinger and freshman JT Huether each threw a scoreless inning in relief.
Kelly got the scoring started in the first inning with a solo home run to left that landed out of the stadium. Senior Matthew Graveline added a run later in the inning with an RBI single.
In the second, Ineich muscled a solo shot to right before Kelly hit one even further than his first, 415 feet to left field as the pair of sophomores became the first Mountaineer duo to go back-to-back this season.
Marshall got on the board in the fourth, but WVU responded with a run in the fifth on a groundout by freshman Zahir Barjam. Graduate student Sean Smith singled home a run in the sixth to push the lead to 6-1.
After a solo home run by the Herd in the seventh, senior Paul Schoenfeld capped the scoring for the night with a sacrifice fly in the eighth. Huether closed the game with a pair of strikeouts in a scoreless ninth inning.
The Mountaineers will return to conference play, May 8-10, at No. 7 Kansas, who currently lead WVU in the Big 12 standings by four games with six to play. First pitch on Friday is set for 7 p.m. ET.
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