WVU Sports

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia has added an exhibition game against the University of Charleston to its 2009-10 men’s basketball schedule. WVU released its complete schedule Thursday. The Dec. 5 exhibition will be played in Morgantown. WVU basketball spokesman Bryan Messerly says the exhibition was added because the Mountaineers had a 10-day layoff between [...]

MORGANTOWN — Over the past 30 or so years, we’ve all come to know Bill Kirelawich. Booming, gravelly voice that can make the biggest defensive lineman shake with fear. Sweat-stained cap on his head, gray sweats, a towel around his neck, always pushing, driving, challenging his players. When a whistle isn’t in his mouth, a [...]

MORGANTOWN – West Virginia University shortstop Jedd Gyorko has been named a Louisville Slugger All-America second-team selection, announced Thursday by Collegiate Baseball. The Morgantown native batted .421 with eight home runs, 28 doubles, 58 RBI, 74 runs and 96 hits.

South Florida won a see-saw affair with West Virginia 11-6 late Friday night in Florida to advance to the semi-final round. WVU finishes the tournament at 1-2 as the Mountaineers finish the season 37-18. The Mountaineers scored first in the bottom of the first inning on Dan DiBartolomeo’s RBI that scored Jedd Gyorko who had [...]

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Senior Austin Markel’s three-run home run in the seventh inning enforced the 10-run rule over Pitt as West Virginia won 20-8 in seven innings Thursday in the losers’ bracket of the Big East Conference baseball tournament here. WVU eclipsed the most runs in a Big East tourney contest, breaking the single-game record [...]

CLEARWATER, FLA. – Senior Austin Markel’s three-run home run in the seventh inning helped West Virginia defeat Pitt in seven innings, 20-8, on Thursday afternoon at the BIG EAST Championships at Bright House Field in Clearwater, Fla. The 10-run rule was enforced following the seventh inning. Markel went 4 for 5 with two triples and [...]

CLEARWATER, FL – Everything went right for the Mountaineers over the first seven innings of their opening round Big East Conference tournament game against Connecticut on Tuesday night in Florida. But in the 8th inning, things blew apart. WVU shortstop Jedd Gyorko drove in a run with a two out hit in the third as [...]

MORGANTOWN — Straying from what they had done so often in the past when St. John’s was the opponent, West Virginia University’s baseball team avoided laying an Easter egg, proving they are for real as they won two of three games from the Red Storm over the weekend at Hawley Field to increase their hold [...]