Mountaineers Fall to Indiana in Regional Opener

Friday, June 2

Lexington, Ky.

7 PM

West Virginia University

39-19

Indiana

42-18

Indiana

West Virginia

Photo by: Logan Adams

June 03, 2023 12:03 AM | Baseball

Box Score

By: Adam Grossman

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The West Virginia baseball team opened the NCAA Lexington Regional on Friday, losing to Indiana, 12-6. The Mountaineers fall to 39-19 and will face No. 4-seed Ball State, Saturday, at 12 p.m. in an elimination game.

The Mountaineers struggled in the field as they made two errors along with a few other plays that went as hits off players' gloves. The Hoosiers also scored two runs on a pair of wild pitches.

At the plate, graduate Dayne Leonard went 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored. Freshman Logan Sauve drove in two runs while Landon Wallace hit a home run and drove in a pair as well.

Wallace got the Mountaineers on the board in the first as he went the other way for a home run, his 11^th of the year and the 77^th for the Mountaineers this season to set a new single-season program record.

The Hoosiers took the lead with two runs in the second before adding another in the third.

West Virginia came back in the home half of the third with two runs to even up the game on a bases-loaded walk from Wallace and a sacrifice fly from redshirt-senior Caleb McNeely. In the fourth, the Mountaineers took the lead as Sauve and junior Braden Barry executed a first-and-third double steal.

The lead was short-lived again, however, as Indiana scored three in the fifth to take a 6-4 lead.

Sauve got the Mountaineers within one in the sixth with an RBI double. After the Hoosiers got the run back in the seventh, Sauve made a one-run game once again in the eighth with an RBI groundout.

Indiana blew the game open with five runs in the ninth, putting an end to a WVU comeback.

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