MORGANTOWN — As West Virginia sat three victories from reaching the finals of the College Baseball World Series and just one game from elimination, a precarious ledge at best, during Monday’s off day that preceded an elimination game with Troy, Mountaineer Nation knew that it could look in only one direction and that was toward its post-season wunderkind Armani Guzman.
While baseball purists would always heap the role of survivalist on the pitching and those who saw the Mountaineers fumble away any chance at beating North Carolina in Sunday night’s error-marred 5-2 defeat, those who have watched the last two post-seasons know that Guzman has been in charge of the heavy lifting.
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