WVU Baseball Concludes Historic Season with Super Regional Loss

WVU Baseball fell 12-5 to the LSU Tigers on Sunday, June 8, their season coming to an end in the Super Regional round of the NCAA Tournament in Baton Rouge. The Mountaineers’ 44-16 record in 2025 marks their best in program history, and in their first season under head coach Steve Sabins; they also won their first outright regular season Big 12 title after tearing through conference play.

Scheduled to begin at 6 p.m., the game didn’t get underway until 8:56 p.m. as storms swept the region and caused a weather delay.

WVU Baseball fell behind 6-0 after two innings as the Tigers got to starting pitcher Jack Kartsonas, but the Mountaineers managed to claw their way back into the game starting with a pair of home runs in the fifth.

Sam White sparked the rally with a solo shot, then Ben Lumsden added a two-out, two-run blast to make it 6-3. Armani Guzman scored another run via small ball the following frame, walking and then advancing to second after a throwing error on a pickoff move. A fielder’s choice moved Guzman to third, and he came home on a single from White.

Just as they did in the first game of the Super Regional, LSU stamped out any chance at a comeback with a ruthless killer instinct, piling on six more runs the moment it looked like the Mountaineers had a chance of coming back. Three West Virginia errors helped facilitate the rally, and a three-run homer from right fielder Jake Brown put the Tigers ahead 12-4. Jace Rinehart hit a solo shot in the eighth inning, but the Mountaineers’ offense died out there.