More than 50 former baseball alums, including many members on the 1994 NCAA Tournament team, will be returning to campus for next weekend’s annual baseball alumni reunion as part of the Baylor series at Kendrick Family Ballpark. The Mountaineers and Bears will play a three-game Big 12 series April 26-28.
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In front of a record crowd, the baseball team defeated Pitt, 6-3, Tuesday (April 16) at Kendrick Family Ballpark. Up next, the Mountaineers will travel this weekend to take on Texas Tech. First pitch is 7:30 p.m. Friday (April 19) from Lubbock, Texas.
Sophomore Carson Kammann shot 10-under-par to lead the Mountaineers to a team championship with a tournament-record 18-under-par at the Mountaineer Invitational at Pete Dye Golf Club in Bridgeport.
The match between the No. 11 seed Mountaineers and No. 6 seed Bears is set for 1 p.m. today (April 17) at the Greenwood Tennis Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The winner advances to tomorrow’s (April 18) quarterfinal round.
Junior JJ Wetherholt with the baseball team was named the Hardman Award winner, which goes to the state's top amateur athlete, as voted by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association. Wetherholt will be honored at the 77th annual Victory Awards Dinner May 5 in Wheeling.
Leonard Perroots was a Morgantown native and 1955 University graduate with a bachelor's degree in history. His Mountaineer baseball career included two seasons pitching for legendary coach Steve Harrick in 1953 and 1954. After that, Perroots received his commission through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program and entered the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence officer.