OMAHA, Neb. – In the end, West Virginia’s 5-2 loss against North Carolina in the College World Series simply completed a 360-degree spin for the Mountaineers. WVU entered Sunday one win away from reaching college baseball’s Final Four. It exited Charles Schwab Field in the exact same ...
OMAHA, Neb. – During his eight-year career in the major leagues, Jedd Gyorko played in some of the finest and history-driven baseball cathedrals in the nation. Dodgers Stadium has more than twice the capacity of Charles Schwab Field, where WVU (46-15) will continue its march through history at 7 p.m. Sunday to face North Carolina in a winner’s bracket game of the College World Series. The newer Yankees Stadium may no longer be the House that Ruth Built, but the lore of the Sultan of Swat, Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio are still present. Gyorko played there, too. That didn’t ...
OMAHA, Neb. — Brodie Kresser said he was thinking double play when he saw the ground ball off the bat of North Carolina’s Jake Schaffner on Sunday night. A double play would have got West Virginia out of the seventh inning tied with North Carolina. Instead, the ball came off hard and fell off Kresser’s glove. All UNC runners were safe. “It just ate me up,” Kresser admitted afterwards. “It bounced and that was it.” What followed was even more disaster, as North Carolina pulled past West Virginia, 5-2, to advance to the national semifinals. Gavin Gallaher hit a shot ...
Parkersburg Post 15 sweeps Moundsville Game 1: Parkersburg 10, Moundsville 0 (6 inn.) M 000 000 — 0 4 1 P 132 202 — 10 11 2 WP: W. Boice 6 IP, 1 BB, 6 SO LP: D. Jones 3.2 IP, 5 BB, 1 SO Parkersburg hitting: C. McCartney 3-4, 2B, 3 RBIs; P. West 1-2, 3 Rs; E. Miller 1-3, 3 RBIs; N. Akers 1-1, 2 Rs, RBI Game 2: Parkersburg 13, Moundsville 4 P 001 215 4 — 13 17 0 M 220 000 0 — 4 3 2 WP: C. Cumpston 6 IP, 4 BB, 3 SO S. Menarchek 1 IP, 0 BB, 2 SO LP: R. Beveridge 5 IP, 1 BB, 1 SO Parkersburg hitting: C. Cumpston 3-4, 2B, 3 RBIs; S. ...
HUNTINGTON — The first inning was not kind to Gilmer County and Ripley in their respective state championship games on Saturday. The Titans, who fell to Sherman 4-1 in the Class A final, walked the first four batters of the game en route to an early 2-0 deficit that they never recovered ...
HUNTINGTON — Fourth-seeded Ripley’s run to a second consecutive Class AAA state championship was derailed here Saturday afternoon by No. 2 St. Albans as the Red Dragons won the school’s third title for head man Rick Whitman following an 11-3 victory. SAHS, which finished 32-5 and ...
