Father of WVU baseball’s modern era bids farewell [Video]

The writing was painted on the dugout wall all year, but that does not make the season’s conclusion any easier for Randy Mazey and the West Virginia University baseball community.

The Mountaineers were rolling.

They went unbeaten in an NCAA Tournament Regional for the first time in 129 seasons. They clinched their first Super Regional in the process. A year after the program’s first Big 12 Championship, Mazey’s team leaped over obstacles it previously could not conquer.

Then, over a 30-hour span, that momentum slowly disintegrated, and the flames of a storybook season — and the most important chapter of WVU baseball history — burnt out with two gut-wrenching losses to North Carolina in the Chapel Hill Super Regional.

“In 35 years of coaching, that’s the team I [wanted] to end my career with,” Mazey said. “The guys that were in that huddle, I love every one of them, and I think they know …