The WVU baseball team came away victorious, 6-5, over TCU on Saturday at Lupton Stadium. The No. 4 seed Mountaineers will now play the No. 9 seed TCU in the Big 12 Championship at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow (May 21) at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
Athletics
Junior shortstop JJ Wetherholt with the baseball team is one of 68 student-athletes to be named a semifinalist and one of just four Big 12 representatives.
Redshirt sophomore Maja Dodik, junior Michaela Kucharova and senior Momoko Nagato from the tennis team were named to the College Sports Communicators 2023-24 Academic All-District Team.
A trio of Mountaineers from the track and field team were selected for the 2024 NCAA East Preliminary Round May 22-25 in Lexington, Kentucky. Redshirt junior Cassandra Williamson will compete in the women's 800 meters, while redshirt seniors Sarah Tait and Mikenna Vanderheyden qualified for the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase.
With a third-place finish at the NCAA Rancho Santa Fe Regional, the golf team punched its ticket to advance to the NCAA Championships following the final day of competition Wednesday (May 15) at the Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The bid marks the first appearance at the national tournament for the Mountaineers since 1947.
The baseball team plays the final series of the regular season at TCU to end the week. First pitch is 7 p.m. today (May 16), 7:30 p.m. tomorrow (May 17) and 5 p.m. Saturday (May 18) in Fort Worth, Texas.