MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Growing up in Pennsylvania didn’t make West Virginia pitcher Isaiah Kearns immune to cold weather. So when the wind chill dropped into the low-40s on Sunday afternoon, he retreated into the dugout bathroom.
“The heater’s on in there,” said coach Randy Mazey after Kearns’ quality start sparked the Mountaineers to a series-clinching 8-3 win over No. 19 Texas. “He doesn’t like it cold and he’ll be the first to tell you. He sat in the bathroom between innings on a bucket, so he didn’t see us hit at all today.”
In his warm hideaway, Kearns missed a three-run outburst in the fourth when freshmen Tyler Doanes and Connor Hamilton delivered RBI singles.