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Mountaineers Fall in Series Finale at No. 7 TCU
March 20, 2016 05:24 PM | Baseball
FORT WORTH, Texas – The West Virginia University baseball team lost the series finale at No. 7 TCU, 14-2, on Sunday afternoon in a seven-inning contest.
In front of 4,190 fans at Lupton Stadium, the Mountaineers (10-7, 0-3 Big 12) were held to two runs on eight hits with two errors. The Horned Frogs (16-3, 3-0) scored 14 runs, 13 earned, on 16 hits with no errors.
Freshman designated hitter Marques Inman drove in both WVU runs with a single in the first inning, and fellow freshman Darius Hill had two hits on the day to lead the Mountaineers offensively.
For the 11th time this season, the Mountaineers scored first, with a pair of runs in the opening inning. Sophomore third baseman Kyle Davis led off the contest with a walk, and Hill followed with a double to left field. With two outs, Inman drove both Davis and Hill home with a single up the middle.
West Virginia took a 2-0 lead into the bottom half of the inning, but TCU answered with a grand slam by freshman Luken Baker. TCU scored four runs, three of them earned, on three hits in the inning.
WVU sophomore right-handed starter BJ Myers exited after one inning on the mound, the shortest outing of his career.
The Horned Frogs extended their lead to 5-2 in the second inning on a sacrifice fly. The advantage became 7-2 after a solo home run and an RBI groundout in the third.
TCU opened the game up with a five run fourth inning to take a 12-2 lead. Five runs scored on four hits with one WVU error. The Horned Frogs added two in the fifth with a double and a sacrifice fly.
Two reached for West Virginia in the sixth inning, but WVU could not get a run across. After Hill led off the inning with a single, junior first baseman Jackson Cramer singled through the right side. The hit extended Cramer’s streak of reaching base to 37 consecutive games.
In relief for the Mountaineers on the mound, sophomore Shane Ennis and senior Blake Smith each worked an inning and allowed just one hit a piece. Ennis came in with no outs in the fifth and got the final three outs of the frame, while Smith worked the sixth.
WVU stays on the road for a midweek contest at Penn State on Tuesday, March 22. First pitch is slated for 6:30 p.m. ET in State College, Pa. Big 12 Conference play continues the following weekend, when the Mountaineers travel to take on Kansas in a three-game series beginning on March 25 in Lawrence, Kansas.
NOTES: WVU falls to 10-7 on the year and 0-3 in Big 12 play … WVU scored two runs in the first inning, the fifth time this year the Mountaineers scored in the opening inning and the 11th time they scored first … With a leadoff walk, sophomore Kyle Davis extended his reached base streak to 35 consecutive games, the second-longest streak on the team … Freshman Darius Hill scored his team-high 15th run of the season … Sophomore BJ Myers pitched 1.0 innings, the shortest outing of his career, and gave up four runs, three earned, on three hits … Davis extended his hit streak to a career-long and team-high 15 consecutive games with a third-inning single … With a sixth-inning single, junior Jackson Cramer extended his reached base streak to a career-best and team-high 37 games.
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