It has been a roller coaster of a weekend for the West Virginia Mountaineers, and it isn't over yet.
The Mountaineers opened the weekend securing an easy win in the opening game of the tournament without having to use their starting pitcher and only using two arms on the mound, and it looked like they were set up perfectly to secure an NCAA Regional win on their home diamond.
But then, disaster struck, as ace pitcher Maxx Yehl left Saturday's winner's bracket game against Kentucky with an injury – Yehl struggled with injury issues earlier this season in his return year after Tommy John's surgery following the 2024 campaign, and clearly wasn't himself against the Wildcats. The Mountaineers would end up dropping the game to Kentucky and fall to the loser's bracket.
But the Mountaineers weren't about to back down despite the turn in luck. They would take the field in an elimination game against Wake Forest on Sunday afternoon, and go up 3-0 in the second inning. And when the Demon Deacons battled back to tie the game, WVU combined to score seven runs in the fifth and sixth innings to re-take the lead. As the old commercial featuring West Virginia legend Bob Huggins goes, the Mountaineers decided "we're dead yet."
In the end, Wake Forest was unable to recover, and fell 10-5 to the Mountaineers. So the season lives on for the Mountaineers – but it could still end today before the clock strikes midnight.
The Mountaineers now return to the other side of the bracket to battle it out with Kentucky, with that game taking place in just a couple hours at 5 P.M. EST. The Mountaineers must win to keep their hopes for a third straight Super Regional alive. If they can manage that, they will have to face Kentucky once more on Monday, and win once again. So Sunday afternoon's showing was impressive, but the Mountaineers must impress again to save their season once more.
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