By Matt Present. BOONE, N.C. – App State baseball won its weekend series against Old Dominion with a doubleheader split on Saturday, winning the first game 6-1 before dropping the finale 7-6 at Smith Stadium.
Game 1
Bradley Wilson retired the final 17 hitters of the ballgame, throwing a career-high seven scoreless innings to help App State to a 6-1 victory.
Jake Beaty made his first career start for the Mountaineers (14-13, 5-4), pitching two innings and allowing one run while striking out three.
Wilson entered in a 1-1 game in the third inning and didn’t yield a run the rest of the way, conceding just three baserunners – all singles. Much like Caleb Cross on Friday night, Wilson pitched to contact, and the App State defense did the rest. Wilson recorded three strikeouts, to go along with 10 groundouts and eight flyouts. He earned his first victory of the season, lowering his ERA to 3.13 on the season.
The Mountaineers grabbed the lead in the third inning. Joseph Zamora singled through the right side and Kameron Miller followed with a laser home run over the center field fence to give App State a 3-1 advantage.
The Black and Gold added some insurance in the fifth. Zamora singled with one out, advanced to second on a stolen base, third on a wild pitch, and came into score on an RBI single from Miller. Later in the inning, Juan Correa belted his league-leading 10th home run of the season to push the advantage to 6-1.
Game 2
App State lost a back-and-forth contest in game two, giving up two runs to the Monarchs (8-17, 4-5) in the top of the ninth inning after tying the game in the bottom of the eighth.
Riley Luft hit his first career home run as part of a career-high four-hit game. Braxton Church, Graham Smiley and Juan Correa also registered multi-hit efforts.
App State went just 3-for-11 with runners in scoring position and stranded 12 runners on base in the ballgame.
Carter Boyd took over on the mound in the first inning and gave up just one run across 2.1 innings of work. Collin Welch, Reyn Watson and Max Tramontana combined to work three scoreless innings, keeping the Monarchs off the board from the fifth through seventh innings.
App State will be back in action on Tuesday as the team travels to Cullowhee, N.C. to face Western Carolina at 5 p.m.
