West Virginia’s baseball season ended with a whimper, a .500 record and coach Randy Mazey rationalizing that the Mountaineers overachieved.
Thursday’s 6-1 elimination loss to Oklahoma concluded a brief stay at the Big 12 tournament in Tulsa, Okla., where in two games West Virginia (27-27) went 1-for-20 with runners in scoring position and batted .217 overall
Sheldon Neuse put the Sooners (33-26) ahead 2-1 with a sac-fly in the sixth and busted the game open with a bases-clearing double during a four-run eighth.
Robert Tasin (9-2) pitched seven strong innings for Oklahoma and outdueled Ross Vance (7-5), who kept the game tight until his pitch count climbed into the 120s during the eighth-inning outburst.