Eleven different players had RBIs and UC collected 23 hits as the University of Charleston rolled to an easy 22-4 baseball win over Bluefield State Tuesday at Triana Field.
Anthony Brunetti was 4 for 4 with four RBIs for UC (10-23), Jeff Somuk collected three hits and Steven Davis and Zach Gunter both drove in three runs.
STATE SOFTBALL
West Virginia State dropped a Mountain East Conference softball doubleheader on the road Tuesday at Wheeling Jesuit, losing 8-3 and 4-0.
In the first game, former Sissonville standout Dee Dee Loftis hit a two-run homer for State (24-20, 9-13). Kori Locke pitched a shutout in the second game for Wheeling Jesuit (27-11, 15-3) with nine strikeouts and zero walks. Sydney Kaplan had two hits for the Yellow Jackets.
MARSHALL GOLF
Junior Will Evans led Marshall with a ninth-place finish at the third annual Greenbrier Collegiate Invitational Tuesday at the Old White TPC in White Sulphur Springs.
Evans fired a 2-over-par 72 in the final 18 holes and 4-over 214 for the tournament. It was Evans’ second top-10 finish of the season. Overall, Marshall finished fifth on the leaderboard with a 54-hole score of 870.
Davey Jude finished at 9 over for Marshall while Alex Weiss was at 10-over.
UC GOLF
The University of Charleston’s men’s team fired a two-round 627 to take the top spot at the Mountain East Conference Spring Classic at Stonewall Resort.
UC finished six strokes ahead of West Liberty and Shepherd, which finished tied for second with 633. Individually, UC’s Viktor Pustwo finished tied for third with a two-round total of 154, with Ritwik Jain finishing fifth with 156, and Justin Westveer seventh with 157.
Pustwo and Lewis Fenn earned first-team All-MEC honors while Westveer earned second-team accolades and Cody Kotva honorable mention.
UC TENNIS
Golden Eagles player Alec Foote has been named the Mountain East Conference Player of Week after going 4-0 last week. Foote, a junior from Manchester, England, topped West Virginia State and West Liberty in both singles and doubles play.
WVU TECH TRACK
Freshman race walker Luke Jobson earned Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Athlete of the Week honors. The Australia native won the race walk at the University of the Cumberlands in 23:54.44, which qualified him for the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field National Championship. Jobson’s time was the second-best qualifying time in the country this season.
HYCAT SWIMMING
HYCAT will host its final swim meet of the 2015-16 Fall/Winter swim season this weekend at the University of Charleston natatorium. Around 90 swimmers representing three teams from West Virginia and Kentucky are expected to participate. Other teams participating are the Fairmont Area Swim Team, Lake Cumberland Swim Team (Somerset, Ky.) and swimmers “unattached” to teams from Charleston and Shepherdstown.
GIRLS GAMES NEEDED
Bellaire St. John’s High School is seeking two games to complete its girls basketball schedule for next season. St. Johns is a small Class A school (100 students) located across the river from Wheeling, and is seeking Class A teams but is willing to play larger schools. For more information, contact coach Bob Kapral at bkapral@timesleaderonline.com.
POWER BLANKS GREENVILLE
J.T. Brubaker, Daniel Zamora,and Julio Eusebio combined for a shutout as the West Virginia Power blanked Greenville 2-0 Tuesday.
After a scoreless first seven innings, the Power (4-2) broke through in the eighth with the only two runs of the game on a RBI double from Ke’Bryan Hayes and an RBI single from Carlos Munoz.
Greenville loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth but Eusebio got a ground out to end the threat and the game. Brubaker didn’t factor into the decision but threw six strong innings, only allowing one hit.