MORGANTOWN \u2014 As West Virginia\u2019s baseball team gets ready for its second weekend of the season with a three-game series at Liberty University, it may have already established its identity, thanks to second baseman and leadoff hitter Gavin Kelly.<\/p>\n
In the opening game of last Saturday\u2019s doubleheader against Georgia Southern, Kelly took a page out of the script of the Tom Cruise movie \u201cRisky Business\u201d and substituted it for one of baseball\u2019s most sacred unwritten rules and it gave the Mountaineers an 11-10 victory that highlighted the three-game sweep and created and image of this as a daring, inventive team who intends to have a do-whatever-it-takes approach to the \u201crisky business\u201d of winning.<\/p>\n
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