Morgantown, W.Va. -- Youngstown State senior John Koehnlein had at least two hits for the fifth straight game as the Penguins fell 6-2 at West Virginia in a storm-shortened game on Monday evening.
     Koehnlein went 2-for-3 with an RBI bunt single in the fourth that cut YSU's deficit to 3-2.
     The Mountaineers worked out of a bases loaded jam in the top of the fifth and went on to score three times in the bottom half. That was the final inning as lightning first delayed the game then forced its cancelation.
     Koehnlein has 12 hits in his last five games, and he's had at least two hits in nine of the last 12 games. Over those 12 contests, the senior has batted .590 to raise his average from .319 to .375.
     Joe Iacobucci doubled in a run, Jeremy Banks hit in his eighth straight game, and Anthony Porter added two hits for YSU.
     Jedd Gyorko and Vince Belnome each had two hits and drove in two in the middle of the order for West Virginia, which improved to 35-14 overall and 23-5 at Hawley Field.
     Corey Vukovic went all five innings for YSU, allowing three earned runs on 10 hits while striking out two. He did not walk a batter, and eight of the hits were singles. West Virginia came into the game batting .360 as a team.
     Chase Pickering earned his third win for WVU, allowing both runs on seven hits and three walks in 4.1 innings. Andy Altemus came in with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth to strike out C.J. Morris and get Eric Hymel to line out to earn his third save.
     The Penguins took a 1-0 lead in the third inning with Iacobucci's two-out double. Banks and Porter hit back-to-back one-out singles, and Iacobucci hit a double to left center that scored Banks. Porter, however, was gunned at the plate on a relay from Gyorko at short to end the inning.
     West Virginia scored three unearned runs with two outs in the bottom of the third, two of which came on Belnome's single to left, to go up 3-1.
     Koehnlein singled in Morris on a two-out bunt single in the fourth to cut the margin to one, and YSU had the bases loaded with one out in the fifth before Altemus shut the door. WVU went on to score three times in the bottom half on a solo homer by Gyorko, a throwing error and a Joe Agreste RBI single.
     YSU will play host to Toledo at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Eastwood Field.