Randy Mazey: Loss to UNC in Super Regional will drive West Virginia moving forward
The West Virginia Mountaineers put up a good fight but ultimately fell to the North Carolina Tar Heels in the Super Regional. In the short term, it was a difficult pill for head coach Randy Mazey and the Mountaineers to swallow.
Despite that frustration, Mazey also knows that the loss to UNC is going to drive the West Virginia program moving forward.
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“Don’t you start with me,” Randy Mazey said. “These guys love to make me cry. Just amazing. Just so proud of how we competed down here. Not many people picked us to win this thing. To do what we did and have such performances. I mean, to have this guy beside me [Tyler Switalski], that’s the best he’s pitched as a Mountaineer, and to do that on this stage.”
West Virginia went 36-24 this season, making it to the Tuscon Regional, which the Mountaineers won without losing a game. The reward for that was a Super Regional at UNC, which West Virginia lost without winning a game. However, both games were highly competitive.
“These kids and this program, the West Virginia program, will remember this feeling that they have right now watching the other team dog pile,” Mazey said. “And that kind of stuff drives you. It drives them from the first day of Fall practice next year.”
West Virginia is going to be moving on from Randy Mazey following this season, as he is retiring from coaching. Because of that, the team is going to need to move on from the Super Regional loss without him, which he expects the team to be able to do.
“They’re gonna have to drive without Ole Coach Maze, but they’ll remember this feeling and it’s hard. The first time you play in a Super Regional is hard,” Mazey said. “So, this is the natural progression of a program. The last 12 years what we’ve accomplished and what we keep accomplishing, keep doing better than we’ve ever done before, and next time you get to a Super Regional and win it, it’s something that’s never been done before.”
Randy Mazey has been a college coach since 1990. He had brief stints as the head coach at Charleston Southern and ECU. Later became the head coach of West Virginia in 2013. It’s a role he’s held since, going to the NCAA Regional three times before making this year’s Super Regional. His overall record at West Virginia was 356-265.
“So, that’s something. There’s plenty of room to improve this Mountaineer program, and I feel really good about the future of it,” Mazey concluded.