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WVU Drops Fall Finale to Marshall
October 17, 2015 04:04 PM | Baseball
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University baseball team concluded its fall season with a 12-2 loss to Marshall on Saturday afternoon at Monongalia County Ballpark.
The Mountaineers played a lineup of primarily of underclassmen, including 13 freshman. In Friday’s 1-0 win over Marshall, it was WVU’s upperclassmen that played the majority of the game.
“We started with seven freshman in the starting lineup, if you don’t let those guys compete in the fall, you really don’t know what you have until you’re 10-15 games into the spring season,” WVU coach Randy Mazey said. “To watch all those young guys come out here and compete against another team, you learn a lot. With this series, we played all the older guys yesterday and all the younger guys today, because I didn’t want to split a game up. I wanted the young guys to play a full game and have an opportunity to settle in.”
WVU had two runs on five hits with three errors, while Marshall recorded 12 runs on 12 hits with one error.
Freshman Cole Austin and junior Shaun Corso each had two hits, while freshman Kyle Gray had one hit. Corso and freshman Marques Inman each had an RBI. Freshman Darius Hill had a walk in the contest.
On the mound, the first five of WVU’s seven pitchers were freshmen, and none of them allowed more than two earned runs. Tanner Campbell, Jaco Brewer and Braden Zarbnisky all pitched two innings and allowed one earned run. Zarbnisky added a pair of strikeouts.
Juniors Jackson Sigman and Alan Johnson pitched the final 1.1 innings of the game and did not allow an earned run. Johnson had four strikeouts.
The Mountaineers got on the board in the third inning with the help of a leadoff double by Gray. The first hit of the game for WVU, he advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a groundout by Inman.
WVU scored one in the sixth with a two-out rally. Austin singled and advanced to second on an error by the Marshall shortstop. Corso’s double to the wall in left-center scored Austin.
Marshall opened the scoring with a run in the first inning. Corey Bird led off with a single, and he advanced to second on a fielder’s choice and to third on a groundout. He scored the game’s first run on a sacrifice fly by Thomas Lane.
In the third, the Thundering Herd took a 2-0 lead. Lane again had a sacrifice fly that drove in Cory Garrastazu, who reached base on a hit by pitch.
After a 1-2-3 fifth, MU plated two in the sixth to take a 4-1 lead. DJ Gee singled with one out and scored on a single by Reynaldo Pastrana, and Austin Norman singled and scored when Bird advanced on an error by the WVU shortstop.
Marshall added two in the seventh and six in the eighth. Five runs in the eight came unearned.
Saturday’s game concludes WVU’s fall exhibition season. West Virginia’s 2016 schedule is scheduled to be released in early November.
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