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 -- It will be an uneasy 24 hours, according to WVU baseball coach Randy Mazey. When your fate in playing in the NCAA tournament is no longer in your hands and relies on a selection committee to like your resumé over someone else’s, “I won’t go to bed at night feeling all ...
MORGANTOWN — Five days. In the end, that’s what it came down to for the WVU baseball team. Five days in the state of Texas. By the end of it, head coach Randy Mazey likely wanted out of there faster than Texas wants out of the Big 12. “It’s a little bit frustrating when people ...