ARLINGTON, Texas (May 24, 2023) – After the two other co-champions of the Big 12 lost earlier in the day, the No. 3-seed West Virginia baseball team tried to reverse the trend but ultimately came up short against No. 6-seed Texas Tech, 6-2, Wednesday evening at Globe Life Field.
The Mountaineers fall to 39-17 overall this season and will face No. 2-seed Oklahoma State tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. ET in an elimination game.
Redshirt-senior Caleb McNeely had two hits, including a home run, while freshman Logan Sauve also contributed with two hits.
In his first-career start, freshman David Hagaman went 4.0 innings on the mound, striking out seven while allowing four runs. Freshman Maxx Yehl had a strong outing in relief, throwing 3.0 scoreless innings with a strikeout.
After a 1-2-3 first inning for Hagaman, Texas Tech got to him in the second for two runs before tacking on runs in the third and fourth as well.
McNeely got the Mountaineers on the board in the home half of the fourth as he hit a solo home run, his 13th of the season. It was also the second home run he has hit in a major league stadium this season, having hit the first home run ever by a Mountaineer at PNC Park back on April 19.
The Red Raiders got the run back, however, in the fifth with a home run of their own before tacking on one more in the sixth.
In the seventh, WVU got one run back as graduate Tevin Tucker hit a sacrifice fly. That was all for the Mountaineers at the plate for the game as they went down quietly in the eighth and ninth.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUBaseball on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
The Mountaineers fall to 39-17 overall this season and will face No. 2-seed Oklahoma State tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. ET in an elimination game.
Redshirt-senior Caleb McNeely had two hits, including a home run, while freshman Logan Sauve also contributed with two hits.
In his first-career start, freshman David Hagaman went 4.0 innings on the mound, striking out seven while allowing four runs. Freshman Maxx Yehl had a strong outing in relief, throwing 3.0 scoreless innings with a strikeout.
After a 1-2-3 first inning for Hagaman, Texas Tech got to him in the second for two runs before tacking on runs in the third and fourth as well.
McNeely got the Mountaineers on the board in the home half of the fourth as he hit a solo home run, his 13th of the season. It was also the second home run he has hit in a major league stadium this season, having hit the first home run ever by a Mountaineer at PNC Park back on April 19.
The Red Raiders got the run back, however, in the fifth with a home run of their own before tacking on one more in the sixth.
In the seventh, WVU got one run back as graduate Tevin Tucker hit a sacrifice fly. That was all for the Mountaineers at the plate for the game as they went down quietly in the eighth and ninth.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUBaseball on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
