MORGANTOWN — The final result of West Virginia’s worst weekend of the season thus far was the Mountaineers dropping four spots in the D1 Baseball poll to No. 17.

It certainly could have been worse after allowing 32 hits and 20 runs in three games at home against UCF, which rose from No. 23 to No. 12 in the national ranking.

Meanwhile, the Mountaineers (21-7) find themselves in regroup mode, while also trying to get a bulk of their roster back to full health. WVU head coach Steve Sabins said a bad flu bug had ripped through most of his players last week, including Matthew Graveline, who came up with the walk-off hit against the Knights in WVU’s lone win of the series on Saturday.

Graveline did not start that game, but came in as a pinch hitter in the later stages.

“We’ve had six guys battle a viral illness and are on medication,” Sabins said. “I just know guys weren’t sleeping, had hot flashes and were throwing up, that kind of thing.”

It sets up the what-now question for the Mountaineers, who are back in action at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday against in-state rival Marshall (14-16), at Kendrick Family Ballpark. The Thundering Herd have lost eight of their last nine games, including a 3-0 loss to the Mountaineers on March 24.

“We just need to get back to what’s made us good,” WVU second baseman Matthew Robaugh said. “Not chasing after pitches, barreling fastballs and getting back to the basics of things. We just need to get back to being us.”

WVU’s offense was off kilter against UCF. The Mountaineers were held to a combined seven hits and one run in the two losses during the series.

After averaging 9.5 runs per game over the first nine games of the season, WVU is averaging six runs scored over their last eight games.

The Mountaineers have won 11 of the last 14 meetings against Marshall and are expected to start sophomore righty David Hagen (2-0) today. He started against Marshall on March 24 and went three innings and didn’t allow a hit.

“You just play each game like it’s your most important game with the best guy you have available and gives you the best chance of winning,” Sabins said. “Hagen wasn’t used this weekend, so we have arms in order to pitch in the mid-weeks. We just need to pitch well and play well.”

WVU then heads out on the road to face Texas Tech in a three-game series at a time when UCF travels to Kansas – the two schools ahead of the Mountaineers in the Big 12 standings – in their own three-game series.

“My message was flush it and let’s rest and go get ready for Tuesday,” Sabins said. “That’s not always my message, but it just felt like they needed that today.”