Morgantown-In the end, any team is tried during victories and defeats and at the moment no team in America is no longer winning and losing less than the Baseball team of the University of Virginia-Western who finished a sweeping of the cincinnati bearcates, 10-5, Saturday afternoon and will take Easter Sunday to think about the achievements they gathered.
Victory was the 14th of Mountaineers of succession, which is difficult to imagine at any level, but it arrives in a season which opened with 13 consecutive victories.
The 13 was not taken seriously by any sounder, who thought it was more a reflection on the quality of the teams they played rather than on the quality of the game they produced.
But this is not a series of non -conference matches against lower level opponents. They are at the heart of the Big 12 season and the 34-4 record that they now spoke are not a distorted reflection of their capacities.
But if you go to their coach, Steve Sabins, who resumed where Randy Mazey stopped when he retired last year and kept the ball as the program, which makes this special group is not what they do, but how they do it.
He talked about this on Friday evening after taking the second three -game scan on Cincinnati.
“They are a group focused on processes which, I think, think they are on a mission to do something special,” said Sabins. “We are not talking much about the victories, but we explain why we win matches. It was accent. We win matches because we play games and make good locations and make good readings and have a good approach.
“If you lose games, it’s because you don’t do that. It is a reminder that you don’t win because you are so good or super talented. You won because (First Baser Grant) Hussey made a good game on the defense or (the airfare jace) Rinehart struck a fastball in the middle or a cursor for a home or a hound.”
They did it all in the Friday victory and did more the same on Saturday.
“You win due to individual efforts inside the match,” continued Sabins. “I think it is easy for you to fall in love with yourself and become complacent. We do not win because we are so much better or talented. This is not the case. There are so many talented teams in this league. These children have joined what we do and work every day to get better. ”
The point that Sabins is stressful and that his team accepts against what you think that the young talented athletes would accept because they succeed. It is terribly easy to believe your press clippings or bringing back the house acclamations with you when things are fine, but the best way for them to get bad is to take this as the only reality in your world.
In the most recent matches, WVU won but did not have as crisp as possible, struggling with Ohio State and the first two games with Cincinnati.
“I think that in the last games, we were good, but not great. I think children have enough feeling to know it and do not say: “The coach is a conât that wants us to do better”. I think they know they can lock their bats a little more or can align the ball a little better.
“It’s different. It’s difficult to teach, but I think it’s a special aspect of this group.”
If you can take a thickness from .300 and convince him that he can strike .330; If you can take a launcher with a good quick ball and convince him to have confidence in his cursor … If you can do it, you prevent them from feeling as if they had reached their limits.
This is what is necessary from now on to win the Big 12, to play your best Big 12 tournament, to win a regional, go to a super regional and even your first world university series in Omaha.
When you have done this, you can know that you have experienced something so few people or athletes experience, real success.