The baseball team is set for two midweek games, starting on the road at 6 p.m. tonight (April 1) at Ohio State before a home game at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday (April 2) against Pitt in the first edition of the Backyard Brawl this season.
Athletics
The rowing team opened its spring season this past weekend as a split squad, with four boats competing in the Sarasota 2K in Sarasota, Florida, and two boats participating in a race against Robert Morris in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Freshman Joy Naukot with the track and field team set a University 10,000-meter record with a time of 32:21.84 while crossing the finish line in second place at the Raleigh Relays March 28 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Once up seven runs, then down eight runs, the baseball team came back to win against BYU, 19-16, Saturday (March 29) at Miller Park in Provo, Utah.
Football coach Rich Rodriguez tells his current roster of Mountaineer players that winning begins with having a competitive mindset every single day in practice and not settling for less than your absolute best.
Sophomore Owen Recker of the men's swimming and diving team will compete at the Division I men's swimming and diving championships at Weyerhaeuser Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Washington.