It’s officially win or go home for West Virginia after their 16-9 loss to LSU. The Mountaineers must win each of the next two games against the Tigers to keep their season alive.

With elimination on the minds of the Mountaineers, they are flushing Saturday’s performance and moving to Sunday with a fresh slate.

“They could have beat us 40-0, and tomorrow, it’s going to be 0-0 at first pitch. So nothing to it. It’s a series. Like [Sabins] said in the postgame, we don’t have to crawl back like it’s a regional win four more. We just go out and compete tomorrow, try and win one game,” West Virginia designated hitter Sam White said.

White and the Mountaineers showed a lot of fight after going down 10-1. They ended up scoring nine runs on 11 hits, while White had three hits and three runs scored.

West Virginia is one game away from potentially having their season ended at the hands of the Tigers, as they need to win twice in two days to advance to the College World Series.

The advantage for the Mountaineers is that this is not like last weekend, where it was a four-team double-elimination tournament. Instead, it’s a three-game series, something WVU is obviously used to.

“This is what we’ve done all season. This is a series. I told them that if you lose game one of a regional, you’ve got to win four games, and you’re in a loser’s bracket. It’s a very different scenario. So this is more traditional baseball. This is what we’ve been doing all year. You’ve got to go win a series,” WVU head coach Steve Sabins said.

The Mountaineers will have a tough task to force a game three on Monday, likely facing Anthony Eyanson in game two. Eyanson has a 2.50 ERA on the season with a .209 batting average against this season.

Sabins’ goal is to go all in for on Sunday, and to force a winner-takes-all all game three on Monday.

“If you can get to a game three, everything changes. And so it’s all about winning tomorrow, playing for the season, playing for your teammates. And then you get to game three, and that’s when things can get really fun,” Sabins said.