Winner of six of its last seven games to WVSU baseball team has not only taken over second place in the Mountain East Conference standings but moved into the number eight spot in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional rankings.

That places the Yellow Jackets in solid contention for both the MEC title and an NCAA bid.
The Jackets play a regular season ending four game series at the University of Charleston this weekend and will be looking to build momentum moving into the tournament.

Junior Trenton Porter leads WVSU in hitting with a .392 average and in home runs with seven. Junior Josh Kiser has driven in a team high 26 runs and freshman Brandon Wright leads the way on the base paths with 13 steals. Junior Dustin Kincaid leads starting pitchers with an earned run average of 1.57 while Tyler Thompson's 45 strikeoutsis tops among the staff.

Junior reliever Josh Falbo continues to build on his program career saves record with eight so far.

As a team the Yellow Jackets rank third in the MEC in batting average while they are second in earned run average.


CURRENT MEC STANDINGS (as of Apr 27, 2015)

School	Overall	Conf	CPct.
Shepherd	32-10	31-9	0.775
WV State	26-13	26-10	0.722
Notre Dame	21-16	21-11	0.656
West Liberty	24-17	20-12	0.625
Concord	26-18	22-16	0.579
WV Wesleyan	18-15	17-15	0.531
Urbana	15-20	13-17	0.433
Glenville State	15-30	15-21	0.417
Wheeling Jesuit	13-23	12-19	0.387
UVa-Wise	12-28	11-20	0.355
Charleston	12-28	9-27	0.250
Fairmont State	9-30	8-28	0.222