West Virginia baseball coach Steve Sabins watches from the dugout as the Mountaineers prepare to meet Marshall in an NCAA baseball game at GoMart Ballpark in Charleston on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
West Virginia baseball coach Steve Sabins watches from the dugout as the Mountaineers prepare to meet Marshall in an NCAA baseball game at GoMart Ballpark in Charleston on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
First-year West Virginia baseball coach Steve Sabins was named the American Baseball Coaches òòò½ÊÓƵsociation East Region Coach of the Year on Wednesday.
Sabins was one of eight coaches earning regional honors.
It is the second straight season that òòò½ÊÓƵU has taken home the regional award, as Randy Mazey earned that distinction in 2024. Overall, it is the sixth time that a Mountaineers coach has won the award, as Sabins joins Mazey (2024, 2019, 2017), Greg Van Zant (1996) and Dale Ramsburg (1994).
In his first season as coach, Sabins led the Mountaineers to an NCAA tournament regional title with wins over Clemson and Kentucky, giving òòò½ÊÓƵU passage to its second consecutive NCAA Super Regional, in which it was swept by eventual national champion LSU.
West Virginia finished 44-16 and won the Big 12 regular-season title outright for the first time after sharing the trophy in 2023.
For the ninth consecutive year, the Mountaineers were ranked in the top 25, .
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