HIGH POINT, N.C. - Ryan Arrowood worked seven strong innings and Jeremy Dowdy collected three hits to lead Appalachian State University baseball to a 7-2 win at High Point on Tuesday evening.

With the victory, Appalachian moved to 23-7-1 on the season and 16-0 in non-conference action.

Arrowood (4-2) was the story of the evening, as the right-handed sophomore scattered five hits over seven innings, allowing just two runs while striking out four and walking none. He got stronger as the evening went on, retiring the final eight batters he faced to earn his first victory since March 7 versus Rider.

Making Arrowood's performance even more impressive is the fact that High Point came into the ballgame ranked among the nation's top 15 hitting clubs with a .344 team batting average. The key to his success was his ability to throw strikes, as he issued 12 walks in his previous 13 innings prior to Tuesday's seven-inning, no-walk gem.

Jerod Faggart hit his 10th home run of the season in the top of the first inning, a two-run blast to left center that gave ASU a lead it would never relinquish. The Mountaineers scored all seven of their runs in the first five innings to jump out to a 7-2 lead.

With Appalachian maintaining the five-run advantage from the fifth inning on, the only question that remained in the late stages of the ballgame was whether ASU's Ryan Stetson would extend his hitting streak to 13 games. The freshman was 0-for-4 when he led off the ninth inning but lined a single into right center field to give him the club's longest hitting streak of the season.

Dowdy led Appalachian's nine-hit attack by going 3-for-4 with two RBI. Wes Hobson and Faggart chipped in with two hits and two RBI each.

Southpaw Will Helms took over for Arrowood in the eighth and allowed only one hit over the final two stanzas to close out the Mountaineers' ninth win in their last 10 games but their first road triumph in over a month, dating back to a 16-12 victory at Georgia Southern on March 14.

Appalachian and HPU close their rare mid-week, home-and-home series on Wednesday at ASU's Beaver Field at Jim and Bettie Smith Stadium. First pitch is set for 6 p.m.