{"id":4904,"date":"2026-06-04T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:18:08","slug":"morgantown-softball-wins-first-ever-state-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/2026\/06\/04\/morgantown-softball-wins-first-ever-state-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgantown Softball Wins First Ever State Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WVSSAC State Softball Tournament AAAA Championship<\/p>\n<p>Morgantown Softball Wins First Ever State Title<\/p>\n<p>By Alyson Messinger, WMUL News Editor<\/p>\n<p>June 4th, 2026<\/p>\n<p>SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WMUL-FM)- History was made in the Morgantown high school softball program on Thursday afternoon, as the Mohigans captured its first ever state softball title, defeating University 8-0 in the WVSSAC Class AAAA State Championship game at Little Creek Park in Charleston, W.Va.<\/p>\n<p>The Mohigans despite having the disadvantage of the No. 4 vs No. 2 matchup, dominated the Hawks from beginning to the end, in the matchup of schools from Morgantown.<\/p>\n<p>The Mohigan bats came alive early, scoring two runs in the opening frame with Carolina Mallow hitting a blooper into left field. The scoring continued in the third with Carper Messerly crushing an RBI triple into left field to score Madi Stone to give the Mohigans a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Morgantown sealed the deal at the back end of the game, scoring five runs across the fourth through sixth innings.<\/p>\n<p>University showed a little bit of life in the first inning but stranded two runners on base.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the Mohigans to victory was starting pitcher Madison Wisemam going 6.1 innings, allowing just five hits and two walks.<\/p>\n<p>The Mohigan\u2019s proved that it was the best team in the Class AAAA bracket, as it did not allow a single run throughout the entirety of the tournament. This dominate stretch included wins against top-seeded Cabell Midland, George Washington, &amp; Hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>The victory adds to what has been a successful academic year for Mohigan\u2019s athletics as it adds yet another championship to its trophy shelf, joining the football team that won the state title back in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Morgantown finished the season at 26-10, while University finished at 29-7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORGANTOWN 210 212 x &#8212; 8 11 0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>UNIVERSITY 000 000 x &#8212; 0 5 1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Pitching: M: Wisman and Smith; U: Lehosit, Campbell (6) and Masoner.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hitting: (M) Messerly 2-4, 3B, RBI; Mallow 1-3, 2 RBIs; White 3-4, 3B, 2 RBIs; (U) Lehosit 2-3; Cox 1-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WVSSAC State Softball Tournament AAAA Championship Morgantown Softball Wins First Ever State Title By Alyson Messinger, WMUL News Editor June 4th, 2026 SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WMUL-FM)- History was made in the Morgantown high school softball program on Thursday afternoon, as the Mohigans captured its first ever state softball title, defeating University 8-0 in the WVSSAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-wmul-sports"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4905,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}