MORGANTOWN — It would be easy to point to a few stats as the reason why WVU baseball coach Steve Sabins elected to bring Grant Hussey off the bench over the three games it took the Mountaineers to win the Clemson Regional.

Sabins, knowing the Mountaineers would likely face a ton of left-handed pitchers in the region, pointed to one stat himself.

“Hussey’s performance against left-handers helped us get a little bit closer to that decision,” Sabins said.

Yet it wasn’t just batting averages or analytics that played into Sabins’ choice to start sophomore Ben Lumsden at first base in all three games and bring Hussey — a former Parkersburg South standout — off the bench.

“There’s a multitude of factors,” Sabins said. “There were a thousand reasons that weren’t isolated to Grant.

“That’s whe

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