The West Virginia State baseball and softball squads take to the road this weekend for diamond action.

Baseball heads to UVa-Wise (15-18 overall, 5-11 in MEC) for a pair of twinbills starting at 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The Yellow Jackets have been on a roll lately winning eight of their last 10 games to improve from 8-8 to 16-10 overall.

Thenton Porter and Phillip Mandt have been leading the Jackets at the plate over that stretch. Over the last 10 games Porter has hit for average at .417 and power with a slugging percentage of .722. Mandt is batting a strong .394 over that period and knocked in 12 runs.

While the offense has been potent during that stretch, averaging 6.1 runs per game, it has been the pitching that has been leading the way.

The staff has allowed just 3.1 earned runs a contest with relievers Curtis Johnson, Colby Gainer, Ryan Baldwin, and Trey Salisbury giving up zero earned runs in12.1 innings of work.

Starter Dustin Kincaid has posted a 1.93 ERA in two starts with 15 strikeouts in 14 innings pitched.

As a staff the WVSU pitchers are elading the Mountain East Conference in ERA by wide margin, 3.3 to second place West Liberty's 4.26.

Follow baseball action this weekend at:

Saturday game stats

Sunday game stats

The softball team is coming off a pair of losses at North Division leader Wheeling Jesuit but had won four in a row just before that.

This weekend the Yellow Jackets (24-20, 9-13) travel to Buckhannon to face South Division leader West Virginia Wesleyan (37-5, 19-3) Saturday and to Glenville State Sunday for pair of doubleheaders.

WVSU has scored the second most runs in the MEC while Wesleyan has given up the least. The Bobcats also lead the conference in hitting and have scored the most runs.

Glenville State (14-29, 7-15) managed just one earned run and two total on 12 hits when they came to Institute a couple fo weeks ago for a twinbill.

Senior Sydney Kaplan paces the Yellow Jacket attack with a .374 batting average, six home runs, and 23 RBI.

The pitching staff is having a good year.

Calli Norton currently has an earned run average of 2.33, Allyson Burgess is at 2.58, and Chelsey Parkins is at 3.79.

The Yellow Jackets currently lead the league in stolen bases with 78. Micca Mirabella paces WVSU with 16 followed by Brookelyn Hale with 14 and Summer Sword with 10.

Follow Saturday's softball action here:

Game 1 stats
Game 1 video

Game 2 stats
Games 2 video