Kentucky runs out of gas, falls to West Virginia in Morgantown Regional final
By Ethan Stone
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Kentucky baseball just didn’t have enough gas in the tank. The Wildcats season has come to a close at the hands of No. 16 national seed West Virginia, which held on despite a late comeback attempt to win 6-5 in extra innings.
You can’t doubt Kentucky’s fight. Kentucky trailed the Mountaineers for most of this game, falling behind 1-0 early in the first inning, then 5-1 by the start of the 8th. The Wildcats needed some offense with outs dwindling.
Hudson Brown and Ethan Hindle delivered. Brown, hitting his second home run of the day, smacked a 3-run shot to right center to make it a 4-5 game. Hindle followed it up a few pitches later with a home run of his own, tying the game at 5:
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That home run was enough to send the game into extra innings, but the Wildcats couldn’t put more runs on the board. In the 10th, West Virginia’s Armani Guzman dropped a ball just in front of Jayce Tharnish to walk it off.
The Mountaineers will face off against Cal Poly, which escaped the Los Angeles Regional.
Ethan Stone is a Tennessee graduate and loves all things college football and college basketball. Firm believer in fouling while up 3.
