West Virginia coach Randy Mazey doesn't mind putting off retirement. He has the Mountaineers in the super regionals for the first time in program history. West Virginia will travel to face North Carolina for a best-of-three series starting Friday.
FILE - Randy Mazey, head baseball coach at West Virginia , speaks during a news conference in Tulsa, Okla., Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Mazey, who is retiring at the end of this season, will lead the Mountaineers into the program’s first-ever NCAA super regional. FILE - West Virginia head coach Randy Mazey, second from left, talks to starting pitcher Jackson Wolf, center, during an NCAA college baseball game Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Austin, Texas.
Picked sixth in the Big 12 preseason poll, the Mountaineers struggled near the bottom of the conference in batting average but rode the solid pitching of league ERA leader Derek Clark and others as well as the understanding this was their coach’s final season.Schools in basketball-centric leagues face different economic challenges with NCAA settlement
A native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the 58-year-old Mazey is in his 12th season at West Virginia and previously was a head coach at Charleston Southern and East Carolina. Mazey announced last summer this season would be his last, citing his desire to spend more time with his wife and two children. While preparing for the regional in Arizona, Mazey missed his son Weston’s game in the West Virginia high school state tournament.
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