Michael Grove's Argument As The West Virginia University Baseball Team

The play of the game came in the bottom half of the 12th inning and extended the game one more inning. After two of the first three Diamond Dawgs reached, Altamonte Springs coach Kevin Davidson decided to have McCarthy issue an intentional base-on-balls to Marshawn Taylor (Grambling State) that loaded the bases with one out. He then fanned pitcher Mathew Oset (Seminole State College) on three pitches. Devlin Granberg (Cisco Junior College) popped up down the right field line and Tyler Langley (Central Arkansas) made a diving catch to retire the side and allow the winning run to be scored in the next inning.

In game two, Centenary fell behind 3-0 before scoring two in the fourth because of a key error and one more in the fifth. With two down in the fourth, senior Lizzie Moran hit a groundball to first that was misplayed to allow her to beat the throw. Moran stole second and scored on sophomore Wendy Gillet’s RBI hit. While trying to gun down Moran at the plate, Gillet moved to second and scored on freshman Ashley Albright’s hit.

With Centenary leading game two 10-8 in the top of the seventh, sophomore Kylie Bradley blasted the first pitch she saw over the leftfield fence. However, Grambling State answered with three runs of its own to tie the game. With one out, McKenzie Johnson homered and Kenyshae Beasley singled. She stole second and scored on Mercedes Williams double. Tia Coleman followed with the game-tying single, but did not advance past first after sophomore Mackenzie Stewart struck out the final two hitters.

Morales had to be strong as Adam Polansky matched him, pitch-for-pitch, through the first five innings. He allowed one unearned run and two hits before Altamonte Springs broke open the game with five runs. His pitching line was not indicative of how well he pitched, and he took a tough loss.

In the first game of the doubleheader Madi Perez, ‘17, (4-0) led the way. She tossed seven strong innings, allowing two runs and on five hits while walking just one Regal batter. Perez struck out more hitters than she allowed on base, totaling up seven strikeouts in the game.

Freshman Cody Crowder’s single put runners on the corners, and an error on a sacrifice bunt scored Zapata. Trinity then threw an error trying to turn a double play to allow another runner to score, and Guin’s two-out single put 11-0.

Centenary erupted for nine runs in the final two innings to win another run-shortened game. In the sixth, five errors and four hits, including a blast from Zapata over the high wall in centerfield for his Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference-leading fourth home run of the season, put Centenary up 8-1.

LeTourneau starter Ashley Burdine allowed seven hits, three runs (three earned) and struck out three in the loss to fall to 0-2.

The Mountaineers (36-22) overcame an 8-0 deficit in the first two and a half innings to take a 10-9 lead in the bottom of the fifth. That lead stood until the ninth inning until TCU (42-15) tied the game.

“It was just being confident, working on my hitting, keep on driving the ball and going out there with confidence, don’t let the pitcher out-think you, just work on driving the ball," he said. "If he gets two strikes just work on putting out the play and see if you can beat anything out.”

Jevon Carter tallied 18 points for the Mountaineers (26-8). Esa Ahmad, Elijah Macon and Daxter Miles Jr. each added 10 points. Teyvon Myers had nine.

Colby started the night off strong with singles from Harley Weese and John Tyler Zerr, scoring two points in the first inning.

Freshman Darius Hill drove in two more when he doubled down the left field line. But WVU wasn't done yet. Vera's base hit to left field scored Hill and gave the Mountaineers a 5-0 edge.

Kade Strowd (4-5) suffered the loss for WVU. He pitched just 1.1 innings, surrendering three runs on three hits while walking one.

The freshman lefty started off the game striking out the first nine batters of the ball-game making Wednesday’s win his best outing of the season.