Box Score MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University baseball team earned a 15-4 win over Kansas State on Friday night at Wagener Field at Monongalia County Ballpark.

For the second consecutive night, the Mountaineers found their groove at the plate, collecting 14 hits and scoring three or more runs in three different innings. WVU led wire-to-wire on its way to claiming its final Big 12 Conference series of the season.
 
Sophomore left-handed pitcher Ben Hampton earned the win on the mound, bolstering his record to 8-4 on the year, while German Fajardo took the loss for the Wildcats.
 
"We managed to keep grinding," WVU coach Randy Mazey said. "With our offense and the way we run, you can't walk us. (Kansas State) walked us 10 times tonight, and I think we stole six or seven bases. If we do that, we're usually going to win."
 
After a pair of scoreless frames to begin the ballgame, WVU (32-20, 13-10 Big 12) took the lead in the bottom of the third with a three-run inning. First, sophomore catcher McGwire Holbrook hit a sacrifice fly to right field, before sophomore outfielder Braden Barry crushed a two-run home run to left to make it 3-0.
 
The big fly marked the Louisville, Kentucky, native's sixth of the year and fifth in the month of May.
 
Then, West Virginia struck for eight runs in the fourth to blow the game open. After redshirt junior infielder Tevin Tucker scored on a KSU throwing error, Holbrook hit a two-run single. Then, Barry collected another RBI with a fielder's choice, before redshirt junior catcher/infielder Dayne Leonard hit an RBI double down the left-field line.
 
WVU wasn't done there. Sophomore infielder Mikey Kluska brought another run home with an RBI single, while Tucker capped the big inning with a two-run triple to the right-field corner.
 
The Mountaineers sent 12 hitters to the plate in the fourth and took an 11-0 lead.
 
Hampton, meanwhile, allowed just two runs on three hits with eight strikeouts and one walk in 6.1 innings of work. The Wildcats (27-26, 8-15 Big 12) didn't record their first hit of the night until the fifth inning, where they went on to tally two runs on a triple.
 
West Virginia scored four more in the sixth, thanks to RBI singles by Tucker and junior outfielder Victor Scott II and freshman infielder JJ Wetherholt's two-run double. That made it a 15-2 score line.
 
K-State recorded a pair of solo homers in the seventh and eighth, respectively, to close out the scoring.
 
Seven different Mountaineers finished with at least one RBI on Friday, while Holbrook, Barry and Tucker each had three. Additionally, Kluska finished 3-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored.
 
With the win, the Mountaineers have now outscored Kansas State, 30-8, in the first two games of this weekend's series. Additionally, it marked the club's 13th Big 12 win, which ties for the most in one season in program history.
 
With the series already in hand, West Virginia goes for the sweep in Sunday afternoon's regular-season finale against the Wildcats. First pitch at Wagener Field at Monongalia County Ballpark is set for 12 p.m. ET, with Senior Day festivities scheduled before the game at 11:40 a.m.
 
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