The West Virginia University baseball team defeated Marshall, 3-0, on Mar. 24 in Huntington, West Virginia. Four Mountaineers pitchers combined for a one-hit shutout at Jack Cook Field.
This result improves the Mountaineers’ record to 17-4 while the Thundering Herd drop to 13-10. The game was marked by strong pitching performances and timely hitting from West Virginia.
Sophomore David Hagen started the game with three scoreless innings and three strikeouts. Graduate student Ian Korn followed with three more scoreless frames and also recorded three strikeouts. Graduate student Reese Bassinger allowed Marshall’s only hit but kept them off the scoreboard, striking out five in two innings of work. Freshman David Perez closed out the ninth inning for his fifth save of the season.
West Virginia scored runs in each of the first three innings: senior Brock Wills drove in a run with a groundout in the first, sophomore Gavin Kelly hit an RBI single in the second, and graduate student Brodie Kresser added another run-scoring single in the third. Seniors Matthew Graveline and Paul Schoenfeld both collected two hits during the contest, while Schoenfeld, sophomore Matt Ineich, and freshman Zahir Barjam each crossed home plate once.
Marshall threatened by bringing the tying run to bat in both the sixth and eighth innings but could not break through as Korn and Bassinger ended those threats with strikeouts. This marks West Virginia’s first one-hitter since allowing just a single hit against UNC Greensboro in 2023.
The Mountaineers are scheduled to play next on Friday when they begin a three-game series at No. 22 Arizona State with first pitch set for 9:30 p.m.
