Marshall Baseball Recap
By Shane Darling, FM88 Sports
March 1, 2026
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (WMUL-FM) — The Marshall Baseball Team hosted its first home series of the 2025-26 season at Jack Cook Field and picked up a series victory over the Butler Bulldogs.
The two squads came in with identical records early-on in the season at 2-6.
Marshall’s ace, Bryce Blevins, took the rubber on Friday and pitched nothing short of phenomenal en route to his second victory of the year. He threw seven innings with six strikeouts, letting up seven hits and just one earned run without walking a single batter.
Tyler Kamerer and Jackson Golden had two doubles a piece, with Golden having three hits total and two RBI. Cooper Hinson added onto the fun with an RBI double himself, stacking things up for a series-opening 4-3 win for the Herd.
Butler was able to come out on Saturday and knot the series up at a game apiece behind the big bats of David Ayers and Charlie Schebler. Ayers had a solo shot in the second inning, while Schebler hammered an absolute bomb of a three-run home run in the fourth.
The Bulldogs were also able to notch two runs with baserunning tactics. Butler scored twice with runners at the corners, having the runner on first steal and then getting the runner on third home while Marshall threw all the way down to second.
Drew Harlow had a career-high thirteen strikeouts on the mound for the Thundering Herd, he unfortunately just could not stop giving up hits in the big moments.
So, these two matchups set the stage for a beautiful, winner-take-all game three under a sixty-plus degrees and sunny day in Huntington.
Cabell-Midland High School product, Sophomore Kenyon Collins, from just down the road in Ona, W.Va. took the mound for Marshall, and absolutely dominated. He threw 8.1 innings total and kept Butler scoreless for eight frames before letting up just one run in the ninth.
The Herd bats were not too hot themselves, with a Tyler Kamerer home run being Marshall’s lone run going into the eighth inning. Junior outfielder Evan Bottone was able to give the home side some breathing room in the bottom of the eighth with a two-run shot.
That was all that Marshall needed to walk away with a 3-1 win and a 2-1 series victory.
This puts the Herd at 4-6 on the season while the Bulldogs drop to 3-8.
The Thundering Herd hits the road for Blacksburg, Va. for a date with the Virginia Tech Hokies on Tuesday evening, first pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m.