Appalachian State and East Carolina each received at-large berths to the 64-team NCAA Division I college baseball tournament when the field was announced today. Wake Forest, which had high hopes of making the field, was left out.
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Appalachian State, which has won its first Southern Conference regular-season baseball title in 25 years, will try to end another long drought this weekend.
Chris Pollard isn't likely to forget his first season as baseball coach at Appalachian State. His Mountaineers went 10-42 that 2005 season, which makes winning this year's Southern Conference regular-season championship all the more gratifying.
Appalachian State, trying to wrap up its first Southern Conference regular-season championship in 25 years, will continue its quest today when it begins a three-game series at Samford with a doubleheader at 2 p.m.
Ryan Arrowood is on the verge of becoming Appalachian State's career leader in pitching victories.
Daniel Kassouf, who has a hit in all but one of Appalachian State's past 17 games, entered Tuesday's game against N.C A&T having swatted five home runs in a six-game stretch.
Austin Trotman of Appalachian State finished in third place in the 184-pound weight class and teammate Kyle Blevins wound up fourth at 165 in the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in St. Louis on Saturday.
Austin Trotman of Appalachian State secured at least a top-six finish and All-America honors Friday in the NCAA Division I wrestling championships in St. Louis by upsetting the No. 1 seed in the 184-pound quarterfinals.
Austin Trotman of Appalachian State secured at least a top-six finish and All-America honors today in the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship in St. Louis by upsetting the No. 1 seed in the 184-pound weight class.
Austin Trotman and Kyle Blevins, the two winningest wrestlers in Appalachian State history, will close out their careers this weekend.
Appalachian State's baseball team went into a three-game weekend series against powerhouse LSU at sparkling new Alex Box Stadium, which frequently draws crowds in excess of its 10,326-seat capacity, knowing that one victory would be a notable coup.
It will be back to normal business for Austin Trotman today, when Appalachian State resumes its Southern Conference wrestling schedule at The Citadel.
Ryan Duffy, the captain of Appalachian State's men's soccer team, remembers a day in early September when Shaun Pendleton, who was the team's coach, didn't show up for practice.
Shaun Pendleton, the men's soccer coach at Appalachian State, was found dead Tuesday at his home in Boone. He was 49.
BOONE Shaun Pendleton, the men's soccer coach at Appalachian State, was found dead Tuesday at his home in Boone, athletics-department officials said in a release Wednesday. He was 49.
It has been a down-and-up season for Appalachian State's baseball team.
Tyler Zupcic went 3-for-4 with four RBIs, and Daniel Kassouf was 3-for-4 to help Appalachian State get past College of Charleston 8-5 on Saturday afternoon.
Austin Trotman will return to the NCAA wrestling championships a bit older and wiser.
Matt Conway hit a game-tying, three-run homer in the bottom of the sixth, and then drove home Steven Brooks with the winning run in the bottom of the eighth to help Wake Forest defeat North Carolina 5-4 Sunday afternoon at Wake Forest Baseball Park.
Western Carolina, the No. 6 seed, pulled off the first upset in the Southern Conference Baseball Tournament yesterday, rolling past No. 3 Georgia Southern 11-4.
Tyler Jackson, a left-hander who was mowing down high-school hitters for Starmount last spring, will face a more daunting challenge today.
Wes Hobson could become Appalachian State's all-time hits leader this weekend. He is aware of that fact but will not be dwelling on it.
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