WVU Baseball Won’t Stop Winning, Drops Queens 7-1

WVU Baseball just can’t stop winning. The Mountaineers (9-0) cruised to a 7-1 win over Queens University of Charlotte on Friday, Feb. 28, piling on in the late innings to turn an early deficit into an easy win.

Mountaineers’ starting pitcher Griffin Kirn cruised through eight innings on 96 pitches, fanning ten batters. The only blemish to his résumé was an unearned run — although he committed the error on a botched pickoff move — in the first inning.

West Virginia put a runner aboard in each of the first four innings but couldn’t break through: in the third, Armani Guzman was hosed at the plate after getting a tremendous jump with two outs and two strikes, trying to score from first on a single.

Guzman eventually came up with the equalizer, a fifth inning sacrifice fly to plate Skylar King, then Brodie Kresser put the Mountaineers in front with an opposite field double down the line.

Kresser doubled in another run in the seventh before scoring on a Logan Sauve single. Grant Hussey notched an RBI single the following frame, then Sauve drew a bases loaded walk to push the lead to 6-1.

West Virginia added more insurance in the ninth with a run manufactured by King who singled, stole second, then advanced the final 180 feet courtesy of wild pitches.

Other highlights included this cartwheeling catch from Sam White.

Hey @WVUGymnastics, can we get a score? pic.twitter.com/fB3woujptD

— WVU Baseball (@WVUBaseball) March 1, 2025

Up next, WVU will continue the series with the Royals at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 1.

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