This weekend's motto for West Virginia is simple this weekend - it won't end until it's over.
On Friday, it was a victory. It scored four games on Saturday in its ninth defeat of host Host Clemson.
On Sunday, climbers wiped out two separate five-game deficits to beat Kentucky 13-12, swept the Clemson area and advanced to the super area in the second season, and thus earned six runs in the ninth inning.
West Virginia ran all six runs with two outs in the ninth inning as they kept the line moving, then closed the Wildcats’ doors to push WVU to the super regional tour of the NCAA Championship at the bottom of Griffin Kirn, who threw 118 balls on Friday.
West Virginia used a full-base walk, a two-shot single from Gavin Kelly, a two-shot single from Ben Lumsden, and then a redirect single from Armani Guzman to lead the ninth place.
At the bottom of the inning, Kirn allowed singles and then had two more outs before closing the door.
At this stage of the weekend, both teams are trying to find anyone who can hit the ball and leave the team on the mound.
WVU starting pitcher Robby Porco couldn't do that as he took out 21 pitches to get out of the first inning and then lacked the commander in the second inning.
Porco got a strikeout, and then he walked onto the next three batsmen, loaded the base and ended his night. When Reese Bassinger came, the first batsman hit a single and scored 2, pitching for the third time before the infield singles loaded the base again. Until Cole Hage sent out two more singles to put the Wildcats ahead 4-1.
Kentucky starter Scott Rouse is almost as efficient as possible. He threw 12 balls in the first inning and then 11 more in the second and third innings, and they couldn't attack and trailed the bottom of the fourth inning 6-1.
West Virginia's offense survived in the fourth inning because two singles and one hit were a base to be eliminated. West Virginia eventually sent nine batsmen out of the plate without a record as the climbers led 7-6 and scored six runs in the inning.
Kentucky answered the fifth time with two of its own runs and they haven't looked back since.
The Wildcats scored twice in a single game and on foot as WVU pitched consistently searched for strike zones.
After the fourth inning, West Virginia Bats slowed down and then they had a chance to return to the game in the sixth.
WVU was 11-7 behind and brought the base into two situations, with Grant Hussey hitting Jace Rinehart from the bench. Hussey chased two early balls in the bats before being able to knock the ball up to the left field, on the wall of the left field, but the ball was caught by Cole Hage of Kentucky and probably snatched Hussey's game grand slam.
Kentucky took the lead in eighth place when Devin Burkes played solo to the left, while the climbers didn't match the mound or the wildcats on the plate.
Until the eighth inning, when the climbers broke out while the offense, which brought them three games away from the Clemson area.