WVU Baseball Trounces Baylor in Run Rule Win

Playing more than 1,200 miles away from Morgantown, WVU Baseball made themselves at home on the basepaths on Saturday, March 14, pummeling Baylor 13-2 in seven innings to even the series.

The Mountaineers (12-4, 1-1 Big 12) scored the first seven runs, plating three in the first as center fielder Paul Schoenfeld laced a two-run double to the gap in left-center and Brock Wills brought him home with another two-bagger. Schoenfeld, Wills and Brodie Kresser added to the lead in the following frame with an RBI single apiece, then Armani Guzman bunted home a run in the fourth.

Mountaineers’ starting pitcher Chansen Cole went six innings on 95 pitches and fanned five batters. Baylor first baseman Tyne Armstrong stung Cole for a two-run homer in the fourth; the right-hander’s command wavered as the game went on, with all three of the walks he issued coming in his last two innings, but he managed to complete a quality start nonetheless.

Matt Ineich hit an RBI double in the sixth, coming home on a Schoenfeld triple that pushed the lead to 12-2; a Guzman sacrifice fly the following inning helped complete the run rule win, with bullpen arm Bryant Yoak blanking the Bears in the seventh.

WVU Baseball will attempt to take the series at 12 p.m. on Sunday, March 15.