Box Score MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University baseball team fell to No. 7 Texas Tech, 10-1, in Sunday afternoon's series finale at Monongalia County Ballpark in Morgantown.
 
In the rubber match of the three-game set, the Red Raiders used a six-run sixth inning to help push toward the Big 12 series win. WVU finished with one run on two hits with an error, while TTU tallied 10 runs on 14 hits with no errors.
 
Tech's Mason Montgomery earned the win on the mound, while freshman left-handed pitcher Ben Hampton took the loss for WVU. The De Pere, Wisconsin, native logged 5.2 innings of work, allowing six runs (four earned) on nine hits with two strikeouts.
 
"I told them after the game that we lost two out of three, but I still think we're getting better," WVU coach Randy Mazey said. "You can't stop your progress or think you've hit a speed bump when a couple of pitchers pitch really, really well against you.
 
"I think the bright spots that we can pull out of this weekend are going to help us the rest of the season."
 
Texas Tech (26-8, 7-5 Big 12) took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first on a sacrifice fly and added another run in the fourth on an RBI groundout. WVU (14-16, 5-7 Big 12) cut the deficit to 2-1 in the bottom half of the fourth, scoring its lone run of the day on fifth-year senior first baseman/outfielder Hudson Byorick's RBI triple off the wall in right.
 
From there, the Red Raiders hit a two-run homer in the fifth and broke the game open with their big sixth inning. Of note, all six of Tech's runs in the sixth were unearned.
 
Still, the visitors led, 10-1, after six innings.
 
Byorick and freshman infielder Mikey Kluska tallied the Mountaineers' two hits in the loss. On the mound, sophomore left-hander Jake Carr, sophomore right-hander Tim Wynia and junior lefty Beau Lowery combined to allow just one hit with five strikeouts in the final 3.1 innings of action out of the bullpen.
 
With the loss, WVU dropped to 15-15 all-time against the Red Raiders, including 6-6 in Morgantown.
 
West Virginia participated in the "Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer" initiative to support the Go4theGoal Foundation and WVU Medicine Children's to help kids battling cancer on Sunday. Both teams wore gold shoelaces to represent their encouragement in the fight against pediatric cancer.
 
Next up, the Mountaineers return to the road for a three-game series at Kansas State, from April 23-25, in Manhattan, Kansas.
 
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