By: James Gravley | WV Sports Chat
For the second consecutive season the West Virginia Mountaineers surpassed its season goals by the fans of winning games and making it to the postseason.
And also for the second consecutive season the Mountaineers swept the regional to advance to the supers where they were eventually swept by National Champions LSU.
Those ups don’t quite hit as hard as the downs do. And no one knows it more than WVU’s infielder Ryan Maggy.
Maggy, who has spent this summer in the Appalachian League, has been used in eight games for the Tri-State Coal Cats.
In those eight games he has played in 66.1 innings with 55 putouts, seven assists, two errors, a range factor of 7.75 and a stellar fielding percentage of .969.
Maggy though doesn’t care where he plays for WVU next season.
“Whatever will send us to the College World Series, we want to win,” Maggy said. And winning is all Steve Sabins and his staff have done, but under Sabins’ first season at the helm of the program, WVU came up two games short of advancing to Omaha.
Maggy has also provided some offense to the Coal Cats this summer.
In 65 at-bats (19 games played), Maggy has hit two home runs with 14 runs batted in. He’s scored 15 runs and collected a total of 33 bases. He is slashing .323/.450/.508 with an OPS of .958.
Maggy has played in 11 games at third base this summer, which is listed as his normal position, and in those 11 games he has 11 putouts, 13 assists, two errors, a range factor of 2.18 and a fielding percentage of .923 over a span of 89 innings.
Photo: Ryan Fischer / The Herald-Dispatch
