BIG TIME W in Winston-Salem!!
App State takes down No. 24 Wake Forest for its first win over the Deacons since 2015. Hartman records the save after Greckel's two-run homer makes the difference!
A memorable season ends in the Sun Belt semifinals
✅ 30 wins (most since 2013)
✅ program-record 16 Sun Belt victories
✅ Ranked wins over Coastal and Southern Miss
Thank you fans! Thank you seniors!
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𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄
App State knocks off No. 8 Coastal Carolina in Conway
⚾️ 1st ranked win since 2020 (No. 24 Wake Forest)
⚾️ Highest ranked win since 2013 (No. 8 NC State)
⚾️ 23 wins on the season are the most since 2013 (30)
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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐔𝐄𝐒!
Our 30th win of the season sends us on to a rematch with Southern Miss at 5 p.m. ET for a spot in the championship tomorrow!
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𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍
After missing a kick on
@CollegeGameDay
last week,
@Lukecoll4
was determined to put one through the uprights. He turned to
@AppState_FB
specialists Michael Hughes and Conner Maynard for some tricks of the trade.
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EXTRA-INNING TRIUMPH!
⚾️ Xuereb: go-ahead single in 10th
⚾️ Rogers: 3-run home run in 8th
⚾️ Lewis: W, 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 K
The Mountaineers are now 7-0 on the year!
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It's an exciting day in Boone, as our team will work out on our new AstroTurf💎Series field from
@AstroTurfUSA
for the first time!
As you can 👀 in this time-lapse video, a big project like this doesn't just happen overnight.
FINAL: App State 18, Coastal 6
Mountaineers clinch berth in
@SunBelt
tourney by setting program record for runs in a Sun Belt game.
McDaniel hits 1st-inning grand slam, homers twice and scores 5 times. Cole drills 3-run HR, & Smith also goes deep.
W: Bowman (4.2 scoreless IP)
#AppNation
, join us in welcoming our new pitching coach,
@rickymeinhold
, to the High Country!
Over 13 seasons, Meinhold has coached in NCAA, MiLB, MLB, and KBO – highlighted by a stint as assistant pitching coach for the New York Mets.
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Final | App State 5, Queens 2
The Mountaineers start the season with a W!
Jackson Steensma ends the game by striking out the side.
⚾️ Hamilton : W, 5 IP, 2 ER, 6 K
⚾️ St.Laurent : 1-4, 2 Run HR
⚾️ Steensma : 1st Career Save, 3 K
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FINAL: App State 12, UNCW 11
Trailing 11-4, App State scores 4 in the 8th and 4 more in the 9th, improving to 2-0 against UNCW as Andrew Terrell scores on a wild pitch!
#AppFamily
This morning Director of Athletics
@DougGillin
presented
@SmithKermit
with a jersey commemorating his 600th career victory, which he recorded April 14 against Georgia Southern!
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𝙎𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙎 𝙒𝙄𝙉
Trey Jernigan strikes out Zach Neto (
@d1baseball
’s No. 3 SS) with the potential tying run on second and the winning run on first to seal the deal.
#AppFamily
Final | App State 13, Queens 5
🧹 MOUNTAINEERS SWEEP 🧹
⚾️ 1st 3-game sweep since March 2021!
⚾️ Terrell: 1st Multi-HR game since May 2019!
⚾️ 5 Players with multi-hit games!
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Final in 7 | App State 16, Ark State 4
Terrell ends the game with a walk-off grand slam. Today's win clinches App State a spot in the Sun Belt Tournament!
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Congrats to our own Colin Schmid (
@colinschmid
), who has been taken by the St. Louis
@Cardinals
in the 13th round of this year's
#MLBDraft
!
That's top-15 picks in back-to-back years for App State, as Colin ranks third in school history with 224 career strikeouts in three seasons
Quite a day in Greenville ...
✅ DH sweep of Furman/Michigan State
✅ Drumheller ties NCAA single-game record of 5️⃣ doubles
✅ Tuthill/Primm/Mauldin/Hampton/Herman combine on 1️⃣-hitter
✅ Bowman with 4️⃣ scoreless IP in P5 win
✅ Drumheller goes 7-for-11
FINAL | That'll do it! Papp strikes out the final batter to end the game and complete the comeback for App!
- Allison goes 2-5 with a triple and an RBI
- Bowman gets the W (2-0)
- Papp earns the save (3)
- Win ✅
Another Series Win!
Hayden Cross hits a ball past the drawn-in first baseman with the bases loaded, scoring Terrell!
Mountaineers erase an 8-0 deficit and take a second straight Sun Belt series to open league play!
𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐂𝐘
When Luke Drumheller, Andrew Terrell, and Hayden Cross arrived in Boone, App State had never won a game at the Sun Belt Tournament. This group won five tournament games the last three seasons!
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#AppFamily
In an amazing partnership between
@appstatesports
and
@appstate
, the Mountaineers have unveiled a state-of-the-art pitching lab, which will be instrumental for developing elite pitchers and students alike!
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Our staff strives to help App State baseball players be and become good sons, husbands and fathers.
He didn’t know we were recording this, but we celebrate Father’s Day with this postgame clip of
@SmithKermit
simply being a dad!
FINAL: App State 6, FAU 3
App State jumps ahead 6-0 with help from a Dalton Williams HR, Riley Smith's 3-run HR. Smith/Drumheller 2 hits apiece.
Brandon Boone (W in 5.0 IP), Kaleb Bowman (3.0 IP) and Andrew Papp (SV) combine to strike out 13!
𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐍
⚾️ Hamilton: W, 6 IP, 13 K - most in recorded history
⚾️ Brooks: 2 IP, 0 R, 2 K
⚾️ Steensma: SV, struck out side in 9th
⚾️ Pitching staff comes within one strikeout of program record
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🚨 LID ALERT🚨
We will be selling all three of these caps at the Yukon Outfitters tent on Jerry Moore Plaza, Saturday beginning at 10 a.m., leading up to kickoff against JMU!