MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Jackson Cramer, called upon to pinch-hit in the bottom of the ninth, narrowly missed a game-tying homer when his towering drive drifted outside right-field foul pole.
And West Virginia missed its chance to avoid a 6-5 upset loss against reeling Penn State.
The Nittany Lions (15-32), the last-place team in the Big Ten, used two walks and a hit batter to score the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth. In snapping a six-game losing streak, Penn State also got a three-run blast from freshman Logan Goodnight, the graduate of Wheeling’s Linsly School, whose first college homer cleared the left-field wall in the second inning.