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.
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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.
Charlie Cobb, Appalachian State's athletics director, said that a desire remains for ASU to move from the NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision to the top-level Football Bowl Subdivision.
Hector Crespo, Tyler Zupcic and Trey Holmes had three hits each Friday night to help Appalachian State hold off UNC Greensboro 8-7 in a Southern Conference game.
Ryan Arrowood is on the verge of becoming Appalachian State's career leader in pitching victories.
Brian Quick, Appalachian State's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yards and touchdown catches, became the top NFL draft pick in ASU's history Friday night.
One Appalachian State University football player was found responsible for sex offenses and one was found not responsible after new hearings were ordered on allegations they'd each raped a woman, according to the woman and university documents.
Virginia Tech scored three runs in the ninth and held on to edge Wake Forest 8-6 in the first game Saturday, and Brett Armour hit a solo home run in the eighth inning of the second game to help Wake Forest win 8-6 to salvage a doubleheader split at Wake Forest Baseball Park.
Rantavious Gilbert, a 6-foot-8, 230-pound forward from Albany, Ga., has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Appalachian State, coach Jason Capel announced Friday.
One objective for Appalachian State entering spring football drills, which ended with a final practice Tuesday, was to start a process to get a once high-powered offense back to full power.
It isn't certain if Sean Price can be what Brian Quick was for Appalachian State.
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.
Spring isn't all that is in the air at Appalachian State. There is a sense of revival because of a revamped football coaching staff.
The Virginia women's basketball team, playing its third straight home game, took full advantage of the opportunity to beat Appalachian State 74-58 in the semifinals of the Women's NIT on Thursday night.
A loss to Samford for the second consecutive year in the Southern Conference championship game two weeks ago didn't exactly point to Appalachian State making a very deep run in the Women's NIT.
Representatives from 26 NFL teams trickled into Kidd Brewer Stadium on Monday, the most to attend Pro Day at Appalachian State.
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.
Appalachian State's women picked up the school's first-ever WNIT victory in a 79-73 win against UNC Wilmington on Thursday.
Austin Trotman and Kyle Blevins, the two winningest wrestlers in Appalachian State history, will close out their careers this weekend.
For Appalachian State's women's basketball team, which will have to settle for second place again, Monday's loss in the Southern Conference tournament championship game might have hurt worse than last season's.
Most of Appalachian State's players have a haunting memory of last season's loss in the championship game of the Southern Conference women's tournament.
Just when Appalachian State appeared to be getting the traction that had eluded it all season, UNC Greensboro put the brakes on any further momentum in the quarterfinals of the Southern Conference tournament on Saturday.
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