BOONE, N.C. ? Appalachian State University baseball closed its regular season by sweeping a rain-shortened two-game series from Longwood on Friday afternoon at Beaver Field at Jim and Bettie Smith Stadium. Appalachian won in the conclusion of Thursday's suspended contest, 16-6, and took the series finale, 4-2.

With the series sweep, Appalachian won 26 of its final 31 games to close the regular season at 32-19. ASU will also carry a 16-game home winning streak into the 2010 season, as it won every game at Smith Stadium following a March 21 loss to Georgia Southern.

All of the action in the opening win came before the game was suspended due to rain on Thursday evening. ASU jumped out to a 4-0 lead after two innings, but Longwood took a 5-4 advantage with a five-run third.

Longwood's only lead of the series was short-lived, however, as the Mountaineers exploded for five runs in the third inning and six in the fourth to take a commanding 15-5 lead. Ryan Arrowood, Jeremy Dowdy and Wes Hobson all homered in the fourth to highlight the Apps' 11-run outburst.

The teams swapped runs in the fifth before the skies opened and play was halted for the evening. When the game resumed on Friday afternoon, the squads swapped three scoreless at-bats to close the ballgame.

Hobson led Appalachian's 16-run, 21-hit performance in Game 1 by going 3-for-5 with four RBI and three runs scored. Aubrey Edens (6-3) earned the win on the mound and Matt Andress tossed three innings of one-hit relief after the contest resumed on Friday to collect his first-career save.

Game 2 was the polar opposite of Game 1, as Hobson's RBI double in the fifth inning broke a 2-2 tie and proved to be the difference in the low-scoring affair.

Josh Dowdy (6-2) allowed two runs on just two hits in six innings to earn the win. The senior retired 14-straight Lancers at one point and matched a career high with seven strikeouts to match Edens for the team lead in victories.

The Mountaineers' vaunted bullpen trio of Nick Daniels, Chris Patterson and Zach Quate worked an inning each to close out the ballgame. Quate extended his school-record single-season saves total to 11. Thanks to the stellar pitching, Game 2 was completed in just one hour and 57 minutes.

Hobson drove in two of the Apps' four runs and David Towarnicky homered to lead the offensive charge in Game 2. Isaac Harrow went 6-for-10 in the series to raise his batting average to .433 on the season and Rand Smith hit safely in both games to stretch his latest hitting streak to 12 games and give him a hit in 49-of-51 contests on the campaign.

David Smiy Jr. went 3-for-4 with two runs in the opener and D.J. Pomposini accounted for both Lancer runs with a two-run homer in the finale to pace Longwood (26-22).

Appalachian begins postseason play on Wednesday (May 20) when it plays its first game in the 2009 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament at Fluor Field in Greenville, S.C. Sixth-seeded ASU will face off with the field's No. 3 seed (Georgia Southern, The Citadel, College of Charleston or Western Carolina) at 1 p.m.. Click here for full tournament information and to buy tickets online.