The Cal Poly Mustangs opened the 2026 NCAA Baseball Super Regional in Morgantown with a 12‑2 defeat to the West Virginia Mountaineers, falling behind 1‑0 in the best‑of‑three series.
Game 2 is scheduled for Saturday, June 6, at 9 a.m. Pacific time and will be broadcast on ESPN2, with a possible Game 3 on Sunday, June 7, pending the day‑before start‑time decision.
Cal Poly managed nine hits, but the offense was limited to a solo home run by Dylan Kordic in the fourth inning and an RBI single from Alejandro Garza that plated Gavin Spiridonoff in the seventh.
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West Virginia’s pitching staff, anchored by Chansen Cole, tossed seven innings, allowing just two runs while striking out 11 batters, and the Mountaineers’ lineup delivered 14 hits, including a three‑run homer from Sean Smith in the first inning.
The Mountaineers pulled away with three runs in the bottom of the seventh and added a single in the eighth, while Cal Poly left runners on base in the first, second and fifth innings and stranded two in the eighth.
Reliever Brady Estes closed out 1.1 innings of scoreless work for the Mustangs, but the team was retired in order in the third, sixth and ninth frames.
Despite the loss, Cal Poly ends the season with a 39‑23 record, while West Virginia improves to 44‑15, underscoring the Mountaineers’ strong start to the series.