Mountaineers Split Doubleheader With Texas Tech

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The No. 16 West Virginia University baseball team split a doubleheader with Texas Tech on Saturday at Kendrick Family Ballpark. The Red Raiders took game one, 6-4, before the Mountaineers bounced back with a 3-2 victory in game two. 

The Mountaineers remain in first place at 17-4 in the Big 12 and 38-7 overall while Texas Tech falls to 16-27 overall and 11-12 in conference play. WVU is currently three games up in the standings on Kansas and Arizona State with seven games to play.

In game one, junior Skylar King and senior Grant Hussey each hit a home run while junior Sam White had two hits.

Texas Tech jumped out to an early lead with two runs in the first before Hussey got a run back with a home run in the third, his first of three hits in the game. 

The Red Raiders scored a run in the sixth before scoring three in the seventh to take a 6-1 lead. In the home half, WVU got back into the game as junior Ben Lumsden drove in a run with a fielder’s choice before King belted a two-run home run. 

The Mountaineers loaded the bases in the ninth but could not complete the rally.

In game two, White added two more hits and drove in two runs. Senior Jace Rinehart added an RBI as well.

On the mound, senior Reese Bassinger was forced into the game in the third inning due to injury and never came out of the game, throwing the final 7.0 innings of the game, allowing just two runs and striking out four while walking none. He improved to 6-0 on the season. 

White hit RBI doubles in both the first and third innings to put WVU in the lead before coming around to score on a single from Rinehart as WVU led 3-1 after three innings.

Texas Tech got within one with a run in the fourth but that was the last of the scoring on the day as WVU held on for the victory.

The two teams will meet on Sunday for the rubber game at 1 p.m.

 

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