WVU baseball mom recalls terrifying day

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A WVU baseball mom says Monday was one of the scariest ordeals she ever witnessed.

WVU baseball coach Randy Mazey pays for storm-relief goods his team collected in an Oklahoma City Wal-Mart.

Terri Frazer of Alum Creek was with her husband taking in some of the sights around Oklahoma City when the skies turned gray and the rain started. The two natives of the West Virginia hills ducked into the first door they could find when the tornado sirens began blaring.

“When I first heard that siren I was like, ‘What in the world?” said Frazer. “It got pretty scary. I’ve never seen anything like it, the rain was coming down in buckets and the wind was going crazy.”

Once inside the lobby of their hotel, the Frazers worried about their son Matt, a member of the WVU baseball team.

“They weren’t at the hotel, they were out lifting,” she said. “I was trying to call Matt and we had no cell phone service.  About an hour later he texted me and said they were back at their hotel. I was really glad to hear from him.”

Secure in the knowledge her own son was safe, Mrs. Frazer’s thoughts turned to those only a few miles away in the town of Moore, Okla..

“It was horrible, the amount of homes that were destroyed I’ve never seen anything like it.  It was awful,”  she said.

WVU baseball coach Randy Mazey had taken the team to dinner, but couldn’t sit around and do nothing. He directed the bus driver into the parking lot of a local Walmart and put his men on a shopping mission.

“The coach told them each to get a buggy and fill it up with clothes or whatever they thought people would need and they took it took them,” she said. “I was just so proud of them it was unreal.”

The Frazers were in Oklahoma City to watch their son play in the upcoming Big 12 baseball tournament. But she said they got a chance to see much more — a group of young men with large hearts in the face of tragedy.

“It’s really sad to know right now that it’s thundering and lightning and there’s some people out there with no homes to take shelter in,” she said. “It puts baseball in as an after thought.”

 





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