Almost two hours after Wednesday turned to Thursday, WKU baseball won its first-round matchup against Old Dominion 7-4. The win gave the Hilltoppers their first Conference USA Tournament win in program history.
“This is our first go-round, our first opportunity to play in this tournament, and we wanted to make an impression,” head coach John Pawlowski said in a postgame press release. “Who knows? Any team in this tournament can win it, and if you get off to a good start in Game 1, you’re assured of two more games. I felt like we had some really quality at-bats over the course of the game, we kept putting pressure on them.