App State baseball traveled to Montgomery, Alabama to play in the Sun Belt tournament. The Black and Gold were the No. 3 seed in the tournament but failed to win both games they played in.
The first game came against the No. 6 seed Texas State University Bobcats, who they did not play in the regular season.
The Mountaineers got on the board first after an RBI groundout from freshman catcher Colton...
App State track and field recorded its highest finishes at the Sun Belt Championships in program history. The men’s track team finished second with 128 points while the women’s finished third with 80.5 points.Â
The men’s runners-up finish was the program’s best conference outdoor result since winning the Southern Conference title in 2012. The women beat their best Sun Belt finish from finishing...
Despite losing the series to Georgia State University to conclude the regular season, App State baseball reached the 30-win mark for the third time in four years and clinched the No. 3 seed in the Sun Belt Championship tournament. The Black and Gold scored a dozen runs Thursday, but the offense faded as the weekend went on, scoring only 4 runs across the final 2 games of the series.
The Mountaineers’...
Freshman Zoe Duval represented App State women’s golf at the North Carolina Athletic Association Chapel Hill Regional, finishing top 25 in her first season.Â
Duval was the first player in the program to qualify for an NCAA Regional as an individual, earning one of 36 national individual spots. Duval tied for 25th overall with a three round total of 217, 7 over par.Â
Her finish opened at 3...
After going 8-1 in its previous nine conference games, App State baseball faltered in its final home series of the season, losing two of three games to the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. The Mountaineers bounced back from an extra-innings loss Friday night with a 5-run victory Saturday, but the Ragin’ Cajuns pulled away in the rubber match Sunday.
The series opener Friday started slow for...
In a weekend series against Troy University, App State baseball went 2-1. Following a 13-7 and 5-0 win, the Mountaineers lost their final game 10-3.
Saturday, the Black and Gold played a doubleheader due to a postponement the previous day. In the first game, App State went back and forth with the Trojans for the first three innings, trailing 5-2.Â
In the seventh inning, the Mountaineers scored...
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