Box Score MANHATTAN, Kan. – Junior right-handed starter Alek Manoah had another dominating start as the No. 20 West Virginia University baseball team shut out Kansas State, 6-0, on Friday night at Tointon Family Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas.
 
The Mountaineers (30-17, 12-10 Big 12) jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning, led 5-0 in the second and never looked back as Manoah struck out 13 batters and held the Wildcats (24-27, 7-12 Big 12) to three hits in 8.0 innings.
 
Manoah (7-3) earned his team-high-tying seventh win of the season and collected his 11th quality start in 14 starts in 2019. The 13 strikeouts gives him 121 on the season, second-most in program history and two shy of tying John Radosevich's record of 123, set in 1964. Additionally, Manoah has 226 career strikeouts, tied for 10th-most in the WVU record books with Jerry Meadows (1965-67).
 
"Yeah, that was good to get one of those again," WVU coach Randy Mazey said of Manoah's dominating performance. "The last two outings he had to fight through a little bit, so to go out and dominate the game, low walks, low pitch count and high strikeouts, I am really encouraged by that. That's what he does, he has a lot of pride. He felt like he didn't throw as well as he could last week against TCU and wanted to come back and redeem himself, and he sure did."
 
Manoah struck out two batters in an inning five times and had five 1-2-3 innings. He allowed a baserunner to reach second base just once, in the sixth, though a strike-him-out, throw-him-out double play at third base ended the frame.
 
The West Virginia offense gave Manoah the lead before he even took the mound, with the help of a leadoff home run by sophomore second baseman Tyler Doanes, his fourth of the season. Doanes led the team with two RBIs, while junior center fielder Brandon White and junior left fielder TJ Lake had two hits, an RBI and a run scored in the win.
 
West Virginia jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Doanes led off the game with his homer to left, and junior first baseman Marques Inman drove in the game's second run with a groundout to third. That scored White, who singled to center.
 
The Mountaineers made it 5-0 in the second with three runs on two hits with the help of an error. Senior catcher Ivan Gonzalez led off the inning with a double down the left-field line and took third on a wild pitch. Lake singled him home, and freshman shortstop Tevin Tucker then reached on a throwing error on a sacrifice bunt. The error put runners on second and third for Doanes, who groundout out to bring in Lake. Tucker then scored from third on a wild pitch.
 
Manoah followed by striking out two Wildcats in the bottom of the second and another in a 1-2-3 third inning.
 
WVU made it a 6-0 contest in the fourth on an RBI double by White to score Tucker, who walked with two outs.
 
Manoah added another two strikeouts in the bottom of the fourth inning, one in a perfect fifth inning and two more in the sixth. The final strikeout in the sixth came with runners on first and second on a strike-him-out, throw-him-out double play, as Gonzalez threw out the runner at third.
 
Manoah pitched a perfect seventh, with two strikeouts, and concluded his night with a 1-2-3 eighth inning, capped with a swinging strikeout.
 
Junior right-hander Dillon Meadows tossed a scoreless ninth inning and struck out a pair.
 
The series continues on Saturday, May 11, at 5 p.m. ET. The finale at Tointon Family Stadium is slated for Sunday, at noon ET. The games will be streamed on WatchESPN. Fans can listen to the game on the Mountaineer Sports Network from Learfield IMG College on various affiliates throughout the state, while fans across the country can tune into the broadcast online at WVUsports.com/Watch and on the WVU Gameday and TuneIn Radio Apps. Direct links to video and radio streams and live stats are available on the baseball schedule page on WVUsports.com.
 
Notes: West Virginia improved to 30-17 on the season, 12-10 in Big 12 play and 15-12 on the road … WVU notched its 30th win of the season, a feat it has accomplished in four of coach Randy Mazey's seven seasons … Alek Manoah collected his team-high-tying seventh win of the season and is 7-3 with 11 quality starts in 14 starts in 2019 … Manoah struck out 13 batters and has 121 on the season, second-most in a single season in WVU history, two shy of tying John Radosevich's 123, set in 1964 …  Manoah has 226 career strikeouts, tied for 10th-most in the WVU record books with Jerry Meadows (1965-67) … Tyler Doanes hit his 4th home run of the season and fifth of his career to lead off the game.
 
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