Greg Carey

West Virginia struggled with self-inflicted mistakes for the second straight game, while the Tigers took advantage to secure their 20th trip to the College World Series.

West Virginia fell short in a Super Regional series for the second straight season, ending a highly-successful first year with Steve Sabins as head coach that included a program-record 44 victories.

Lewis County head coach Dustin Cogar is guiding the North Bears and is impressed with how quickly players can grasp things.

Four teams, broken down by regional representation, will play two games each, to go with a skills challenge.

Weston Smith fired a complete game three-hitter with 13 strikeouts and one walk to lead Hurricane past Morgantown 6-1 in the inaugural Class AAAA title game. Now he begins preparing for the start of his baseball career at WVU.

Jackson helped lead the Herd to a 20-win campaign in his first season as head coach.

The Mountaineer men's team will have home-and-away matchups with Central Florida, Cincinnati and Kansas State, while the women's team has home-and-away games with Central Florida, Cincinnati and TCU.

Nichols says the Cardinals have been able to install more than expected to this point.