WVU Baseball Suffers Sweep at Hands of Jayhawks to Close Regular Season

WVU Baseball couldn’t muster any offense in their regular season home finale against Kansas, falling 7-0 to suffer a sweep.

This marks the Mountaineers (40-13, 19-9 Big 12) first loss via sweep since April 21, 2024 when they fell to Texas Tech in a three-game road set. Their last three-game sweep in Morgantown came on May 2, 2022 against TCU. The Mountaineers now sit at 1-6 in their past seven games, flatlining with the postseason about to start.

West Virginia managed just two hits and five baserunners, their best scoring chance coming on a Logan Sauve double with one out in the second inning. Two strikeouts ended the threat with a whimper.

Starting pitcher Jack Kartsonas allowed one run in seven innings, striking out eight batters on 104 pitches. Jayhawks’ center fielder Derek Cerda clubbed a three-run homer in the eighth to put any comeback chance close to out of reach, then Sawyer Smith made it 5-0 with a solo shot in the ninth. Kansas even tacked on two more before WVU was finally put out of their misery.

WVU Baseball will begin their run at a conference tournament championship on Thursday, May 22, facing the winner of Wednesday’s matchup between the No. 9 seed, either Baylor or Houston, and No. 8 seed Oklahoma State.

Fortunately for West Virginia, they will still ended the regular season with an outright Big 12 title despite squandering any momentum they built up before the postseason.