MORGANTOWN -- With each swing and miss, each off-speed pitch that just caught the corner and every hard-hit ball that went right to one of his teammates, Derek Clark made a major statement on Friday. That statement: He belongs. To that point, his West Virginia teammates made the same ...
MORGANTOWN -- Based on the rankings of the recruiting world, it would seem Ryan Johnson was always destined to be in this spot. Derek Clark was not. Their paths will cross at 3 p.m. Friday for the first time in the most crucial moment, Clark as West Virginia’s starting pitcher and ...
MORGANTOWN -- There is still another step to be taken for J.J. Wetherholt, another game to be played. Draft projections and a career in the major leagues can still wait, as far as the WVU shortstop is concerned. “I know what can be in the future, but I don’t really think about it ...
MORGANTOWN -- There was a message delivered by the NCAA selection committee to the baseball coaches of the Big 12 Conference. WVU coach Randy Mazey, who will be retiring once the Mountaineers have been eliminated from the NCAA tournament, heard it loud and clear. “Actually, I was a ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia’s opening matchup in the NCAA tournament at 3 p.m. Friday comes with maybe the biggest warning label in all of college baseball. Dallas Baptist, a Division I member of the NCAA in baseball since only 2005 and with an enrollment of less than 5,000, may have the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Randy Mazey will end his WVU baseball coaching career having made one last bit of history Monday, becoming the first coach since Steve Harrick in the 1960s to lead the Mountaineers to consecutive NCAA tournaments. WVU (33-22) was selected as the No. 3 seed in the Tucson, ...
