Wake Forests baseball season comes to an end with loss to West Virginia

Facing its second elimination game in as many days, Wake Forest ran out of gas in the Morgantown Regional in West Virginia on Sunday afternoon.

West Virginia ended Wake Forest's season with a 10-5 defeat of the Demon Deacons on Sunday.

Wake Forest and Coach Tom Walter ended the season with a 39-21 record.

"When I look at this weekend, two innings got away from us," Walter said. "(Kentucky) didn't hit the ball particularly hard. We had the same sort of thing happen today with the six-spot. (West Virginia) had a couple balls that just kind of found turf."

Walter credited West Virginia's team. "They found a way to put the ball in play when they needed to," he said.

The difference on Sunday was a disastrous sixth inning in which the Mountaineers scored six runs off three Wake Forest pitchers to blow the game open.

The Demon Deacons had tied the score at 3 after four innings, but the Mountaineers scored a run in the fifth to take a 5-4 lead. The Mountaineers then got six hits, and the Demon Deacons had a costly error that led to the six-run outburst.

Starting pitcher Dawson Montesa of the Mountaineers went 7 1/3 innings, allowing four hits and five runs with seven strikeouts against four walks.

The Mountaineers had 13 hits as every player in the lineup had at least one hit.

"I'm proud of this gentleman sitting next to us, Will Ray," Walter said about his team's captain and a team leader who pitched in relief on Sunday. "He's been with us for five years, and we've been in five regionals and been to Omaha. Nobody in the history of Wake Forest baseball has had a more storied career and had more success than Will Ray. His leadership has been a big part of that success."

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This story was originally published June 1, 2026 at 1:08 PM.