Box Score MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University baseball team lost its regular-season finale, 6-2, to Baylor on Saturday afternoon at Monongalia County Ballpark.
 
The Mountaineers (27-25, 9-15 Big 12) were held to two runs on seven hits, while the Bears (32-19, 13-11 Big 12) scored their six runs on 11 hits. Both teams committed two errors, while WVU left 10 runners on base and BU stranded six.

"We haven't played that badly lately, we lost this game in the second and third innings," WVU coach Randy Mazey said. "We had bases loaded, no one out and didn't score. Second and third the next inning, no one out and didn't score. We should have never let their starter (Tyler Thomas) out of the game without scoring against him. That's how the game was pretty much decided. Our guys grind it out, every year, every game is a real grind. Some guys really played well down the stretch, this portion of the season, the long portion. Now it's turned into the short portion.

"We've always played well in Oklahoma City. I don't see any reason why we're not going to do the same thing again. We just have to take all of the days we played well in the long season and put them together and try to roll four or five in a row."
  
Postseason play begins for the Mountaineers next week at the Big 12 Championship, from May 23-27, at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. WVU has earned a berth in the championship in each of its six seasons in the Big 12. Seedings and game times for the double-elimination event will be announced later this evening.
 
Before the game, WVU honored its graduating seniors, right-handed pitchers BJ Myers and Shane Ennis.
 
Myers made his 12th start of the season and second of the weekend on Saturday. In 3.0 innings, he allowed a run on three hits with a strikeout. Myers suffered the loss and fell to 1-2 on the season. Ennis also made an appearance on the mound on Senior Day. One of seven WVU relievers, Ennis did not allow a run in 1.0 innings, getting the final out of the fourth and the first two outs of the fifth.
 
Junior right fielder Darius Hill led the team with two hits, while junior left fielder Braden Zarbnisky and sophomore center fielder Brandon White each had a hit and an RBI.
 
Baylor took a 1-0 lead in the third inning on a two-out single to right-center. Sophomore right-hander Alek Manoah relieved Myers to start the fourth, and BU added three runs to make it 4-0. Ennis came in and got a pop-up to end the inning and leave a runner on.
 
The Mountaineers answered right back with two runs in the bottom of the fourth, cutting the deficit in half, at 4-2. Junior catcher Ivan Gonzalez led off the inning with a walk and took second on a balk. With two outs, Zarbnisky singled to left, scoring Gonzalez. On the play, Zarbnisky took advantage of a fielding error and advanced to third. He scored WVU's second run on a single up the middle by White.
 
Ennis and freshman left-hander Jackson Wolf held Baylor scoreless in the fifth, stranding a runner on, while freshman righty Tristen Hudson worked around a leadoff single in the sixth.
 
Sophomore right-hander Sam Kessler then came in and pitched a perfect seventh and eighth inning.
 
WVU left a runner on in the sixth and seventh, and was retired in order in the eighth.
 
The Bears added two runs in the ninth inning off Zarbnisky to extend their lead to 6-2. A leadoff double got the inning started, and an RBI sacrifice fly and single scored BU's insurance runs.
 
In the bottom of the ninth, junior shortstop Jimmy Galusky led off the inning with a double down the left-field line. However, the next three batters were retired to end the game.
 
NOTES: West Virginia concludes the regular season with a 27-25 record and 9-15 in Big 12 play … West Virginia finishes 15-8 record at home … Before the game, WVU honored its graduating seniors, right-handed pitchers BJ Myers and Shane Ennis … Myers suffered the loss and falls to 1-2 on the season … Up next, WVU travels to the Big 12 Championship, in Oklahoma City, from May 23-27 … Seedings and game times for the double-elimination event will be announced later this evening.
 
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