{"id":339309,"date":"2026-06-17T02:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339309\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T02:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:59:24","slug":"2026-mens-college-world-series-tuesday-schedule-scores-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339309\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Men&#8217;s College World Series: Tuesday schedule, scores, updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia topped Troy again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/game\/6599769\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this time 12-0 in an elimination game<\/a> to advance to the Men&#8217;s College World Series semifinals. The Mountaineers will next play North Carolina at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/game\/6599770\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2 p.m. ET Wednesday on ESPN<\/a>. WVU will have to beat the Tar Heels twice to make the finals, with the if necessary game on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Kelly had the big swing for WVU, hitting a 3-run blast to open up the game to a 5-0 lead. On the mound, the Mountaineers got 5.1 shutout innings from starting pitcher Dawson Montesa. Though the Trojans eventually pushed\u00a0Montesa out in the sixth and loaded the bases with no outs,\u00a0Reese Bassinger came in relief and delivered with three straight outs.<\/p>\n<p>Every batter reached base, with Kelly finishing 3-6 at the plate with four RBI. West Virginia finished 6-16 (.375) with runners on, while Troy struggled at 1-18 (.056).<\/p>\n<p>Some notes from the game:<\/p>\n<p>\tWest Virginia&#8217;s Armani\u00a0Guzman\u00a0finished with three steals. He&#8217;s the\u00a0first player to have 3+ steals in a MCWS game since 2018 (Florida&#8217;s\u00a0Jonathan India)<br \/>\n\tKelly\u00a0has hit 12 homers in his last 22 games after hitting only\u00a0six\u00a0in the first 40 games of the season<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTwelve of\u00a0Kelly&#8217;s\u00a018 HR have come since the start of May, tied with Oklahoma&#8217;s\u00a0Deiten Lachance\u00a0for the most in DI over that span.<\/p>\n<p>\tSince falling to Miami (Fla.) in the first game of regionals, Troy went 7-2 the rest of the tournament \u2014 7-0 against teams not named &#8220;West Virginia&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Virginia topped Troy again, this time 12-0 in an elimination game to advance to the Men&#8217;s College&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-339309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}