MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The No. 24 West Virginia University baseball team finished off a sweep of Cincinnati on Saturday with a 10-5 victory at Kendrick Family Ballpark. The Mountaineers have now won a season-high 14 straight games and improve to 34-4 overall and 13-3 in the Big 12 while the Bearcats fall to 21-18 and 8-10 in conference play.
 
Redshirt junior Chase Swain and sophomore Spencer Barnett each had three RBI while junior Logan Sauve hit a home run and scored three runs. Senior Jace Rinehart and junior Sam White both had two hits and one RBI as well.
 
On the mound, graduate student Jack Kartsonas went six innings and allowed just one unearned run while striking out seven. He has yet to allow an earned run in 13.0 innings of work as a starting pitcher. Freshman Benjamin Hudson tossed a scoreless inning while senior Tyler Hutson closed out the game with 1.2 perfect innings, striking out three.
 
Cincinnati took a 1-0 lead through three innings before WVU jumped in front with a four-run fourth inning. White singled home a run to even the score before Swain put the Mountaineers in front with a two-run double. Barnett closed out the inning with a run-scoring groundout.
 
West Virginia put up another four-spot in the fifth inning, getting RBI hits from Rinehart, Swain, and Barnett. In the sixth, Sauve hit his seventh home run of the season to match Rinehart for the team lead before senior Brodie Kresser drove in a run in the seventh with a fielder's choice.
 
In the eighth, the Bearcats had their own four-run inning, but Hutson came out of the bullpen to squash the rally.
 
The Mountaineers will be back on the field, Tuesday at Penn State. First pitch from State College is set for 6 p.m. and the game will air on the Big Ten Network.
 
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