Five injured after ferocious winds and severe storms rip through college baseball game, sending tents airborne

GRANVILLE, West Virginia – Five radical were injured aft almighty upwind gusts sent tents flying during terrible storms that swept done a West Virginia University shot crippled Saturday.

Thousands of fans packed Kendrick Family Ballpark successful Granville connected Saturday, but their hopes of watching the Mountaineers punch their summons to Omaha were temporarily enactment connected clasp arsenic unsafe terrible storms swept done the sold-out venue.

During the upwind delay, a almighty upwind gust sent a ample structure flying and carried it crossed a adjacent parking lot, creating a chaotic country extracurricular the stadium.

Video footage captures the aftermath of a almighty upwind gust that lifted a structure and sent it tumbling down Randy's Ridge during a West Virginia University shot game.

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According to the West Virginia University Police Department, 5 radical were transported to a infirmary for attraction pursuing the incident.

With the Mountaineers conscionable 1 triumph distant from clinching the program's first-ever travel to the Men's College World Series, hundreds of fans gathered on Randy's Ridge, the grassy hillside beyond Kendrick Family Ballpark wherever immoderate of WVU baseball's astir devoted supporters ticker the action. 

Lined with dozens of tents and packed with fans, the fashionable viewing country rapidly turned chaotic erstwhile almighty upwind gusts swept done the sold-out stadium, sending tents airborne and scattering spectators.

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Numerous archetypal responders were connected country for the crippled and provided contiguous aesculapian assistance to injured spectators.

James Sanders was connected Randy's Ridge erstwhile the chaos ensued, and said, "It was intense, and we went close into endurance mode."

With terrible upwind warnings successful spot and urges from stadium unit to evacuate and question shelter, Sanders said astir 10 radical huddled nether a tiny tent. When a unsafe gust ripped the ample achromatic Mountaineer Athletic Club tent, the monolithic structure hurled close towards their tent. 

"We were picking our chairs up and getting acceptable to leave, and past the gust came successful and picked the structure up and past everything went sideways," Sanders said.

Sanders was 1 of astir a twelve that became trapped nether the structure erstwhile the ample achromatic structure crashed into them.

According to Sanders, the storms near galore radical injured and archetypal responders acted rapidly to assistance those impacted by the monolithic structure erstwhile the terrible upwind had passed.

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After the upwind delay, play resumed and the Mountaineers finished disconnected the Cal Poly Mustangs successful ascendant fashion, cruising to a 17–1 victory, sending West Virginia University to the Men's College World Series for the archetypal clip successful programme history.

"While it was a large time for Mountaineer baseball, each of Mountaineer Nation's thoughts are with those who were involved," WVU Athletics said successful a statement.