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May 1—MORGANTOWN — Chase Swain had to charge hard on the dribbler hit down the third base line and his quick and off-balanced throw to first sailed high and wide of teammate Grant Hussey.
A.J. Havrilla scored and Marshall walked-off No. 13 West Virginia on Wednesday night with a 7-6 victory inside GoMart Ballpark in Charleston.
BOX SCORE Well, there wasn't much walking off. Instead, Thundering Herd players rushed the field, chasing after Tyler Kamerer, who had hit the slow roller to third base.
The Mountaineers (37-6), meanwhile, were left to ponder if this was simply an upset loss or a sign of things to come.
WVU is now 0-2 in its last two midweek games. Both were one-run defeats to Penn State and Marshall (24-22), neither were expected.
The Mountaineers will entertain Texas Tech for a three-game series that begins at 6:30 p.m. Friday inside Kendrick Family Ballpark. Maybe getting back to Big 12 play will get the Mountaineers back in their comfort zone, but they still have something to prove there, too.
WVU is coming off a three-game sweep of UCF, but one of those wins came after recording only one hit. Another came after giving up 10 runs and the third was by a slim 4-3 margin against the 12th-place team in the Big 12 standings.
As for the Thundering Herd, they avoided a season sweep with the victory.
Relief pitcher Charlie Krebs was the difference. In a 6-6 game, Krebs came in with two WVU runners on and no outs in the seventh inning. He induced a double play and a groundout to get out of the inning and then pitched perfect 1-2-3 innings in the eighth and ninth innings.
Marshall's magic in the final inning began with Havrilla drawing a four-pitch walk with one out. Eddie Leon singled to right field, which set up Kamerer.
All of it came against WVU reliever Chase Meyer, who came in for the ninth inning hoping to send the game into extra innings. Instead, he was charged with just his second loss of the season.
WVU took an early 2-0 lead when Kyle West's double scored Skylar King and then Jace Rineart reached on a throwing error that scored West.
In the bottom of the first, Havrilla hit a solo home run to deep center and that was it for WVU starter Gavin Van Kempen. He got out of the rest of the inning unscathed, but Mac Stiffler came in for the second inning.
Marshall took a 4-3 lead in the fourth inning, highlighted by Jackson Golden's two-run home run off Stiffler.
West hit a solo home run in the fifth to tie the game and the Mountaineers took a 6-4 lead in the sixth, after Hussey drove in Sam White with a base hit and Brodie Kresser picked up an RBI on a groundout that scored Rineart.
Marshall tied the game off WVU reliever Reese Bassinger in the bottom of the sixth. Golden drove in two with a base hit, giving him four RBIs in the game as the Thundering Herd's No. 9 hitter.
West finished with three hits and two RBIs for the Mountaineers and King and White each had two hits.
Carson Estridge pitched 1 2 /3 innings of scoreless relief and former Bridgeport star Ben McDougal got WVU out of the eighth inning with a strikeout and a lineout.
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A.J. Havrilla scored and Marshall walked-off No. 13 West Virginia on Wednesday night with a 7-6 victory inside GoMart Ballpark in Charleston.
BOX SCORE Well, there wasn't much walking off. Instead, Thundering Herd players rushed the field, chasing after Tyler Kamerer, who had hit the slow roller to third base.
The Mountaineers (37-6), meanwhile, were left to ponder if this was simply an upset loss or a sign of things to come.
WVU is now 0-2 in its last two midweek games. Both were one-run defeats to Penn State and Marshall (24-22), neither were expected.
The Mountaineers will entertain Texas Tech for a three-game series that begins at 6:30 p.m. Friday inside Kendrick Family Ballpark. Maybe getting back to Big 12 play will get the Mountaineers back in their comfort zone, but they still have something to prove there, too.
WVU is coming off a three-game sweep of UCF, but one of those wins came after recording only one hit. Another came after giving up 10 runs and the third was by a slim 4-3 margin against the 12th-place team in the Big 12 standings.
As for the Thundering Herd, they avoided a season sweep with the victory.
Relief pitcher Charlie Krebs was the difference. In a 6-6 game, Krebs came in with two WVU runners on and no outs in the seventh inning. He induced a double play and a groundout to get out of the inning and then pitched perfect 1-2-3 innings in the eighth and ninth innings.
Marshall's magic in the final inning began with Havrilla drawing a four-pitch walk with one out. Eddie Leon singled to right field, which set up Kamerer.
All of it came against WVU reliever Chase Meyer, who came in for the ninth inning hoping to send the game into extra innings. Instead, he was charged with just his second loss of the season.
WVU took an early 2-0 lead when Kyle West's double scored Skylar King and then Jace Rineart reached on a throwing error that scored West.
In the bottom of the first, Havrilla hit a solo home run to deep center and that was it for WVU starter Gavin Van Kempen. He got out of the rest of the inning unscathed, but Mac Stiffler came in for the second inning.
Marshall took a 4-3 lead in the fourth inning, highlighted by Jackson Golden's two-run home run off Stiffler.
West hit a solo home run in the fifth to tie the game and the Mountaineers took a 6-4 lead in the sixth, after Hussey drove in Sam White with a base hit and Brodie Kresser picked up an RBI on a groundout that scored Rineart.
Marshall tied the game off WVU reliever Reese Bassinger in the bottom of the sixth. Golden drove in two with a base hit, giving him four RBIs in the game as the Thundering Herd's No. 9 hitter.
West finished with three hits and two RBIs for the Mountaineers and King and White each had two hits.
Carson Estridge pitched 1 2 /3 innings of scoreless relief and former Bridgeport star Ben McDougal got WVU out of the eighth inning with a strikeout and a lineout.
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