Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 HICKORY, N.C. — True freshman Colin Schmid hit for the cycle in Game 2 to highlight Appalachian State University baseball's doubleheader split versus Quinnipiac on Saturday afternoon at L.P. Frans Stadium. Appalachian State dropped the opener, 4-3, before Schmid led the Mountaineers to a 10-7 win in the nightcap.

Schmid doubled in the first inning, singled in the third, blasted a game-changing three-run homer in the fourth and tripled in the seventh to become the first Mountaineer to hit for the cycle since Chris Downard accomplished the feat versus East Tennessee State in 2003.

In addition to being part of the first App State cycle in 13 years, Schmid's fourth-inning homer was also the turning point in the Mountaineers' first victory of the season.

After falling to 0-5 with the loss in Saturday's opener, Appalachian appeared to be en route to a sixth-straight defeat when it fell into a 5-0 hole in the third inning of the nightcap. However, Schmid's two-out, three-run blast over L.P. Frans Stadium's 25-foot wall of billboards in right field cut the deficit to 5-4 and proved to be the spark that the Mountaineers' dormant-to-date offense would need.

Appalachian State (1-5) evened the score at 5-5 in the fifth then plated four runs in the sixth to take a commanding 9-5 lead. True freshman Jason Curtis' two-run homer in the sixth capped the Mountaineers' nine unanswered runs.

Quinnipiac (1-1) scored single runs in the seventh and eighth to cut Appalachian's lead to 9-7 but the Mountaineers added an insurance run in the eighth to make it 10-7. Closer Brian Bauk retired the side in order in the ninth to nail down the win and record the his first-career save.

Schmid finished 4-for-5 with three RBI and a run scored and Curtis went 3-for-5 with a double, homer, two RBI and two runs to lead the Mountaineers' offensive explosion in Game 2. Appalachian State tallied more runs (10) in the nightcap than it had scored in its first five games of the season combined (9) and, with 17 hits, nearly doubled its previous high hit total of the campaign (nine vs. Old Dominion last Sunday and in Game 1 vs. Quinnipiac).

Overshadowed by the offensive outburst was a stellar pitching performance by sophomore Travis Holden. Holden (1-0) threw 3.1 scoreless innings out of the bullpen to earn his third win in his last five appearances dating back to last season.

In the seven-inning opener, Appalachian State battled back from 2-0 and 3-2 deficits but Quinnipiac scored the go-ahead run with back-to-back two-out singles in the sixth. Appalachian loaded the bases with one out in the seventh but QU's Matthew Osieja came out of the bullpen to strike out both batters he faced and close out the victory.

Freshman Tanner Mann-Fix and Tyler Stroup had two hits apiece in Game 1.

Appalachian State and Quinnipiac finish off their four-game weekend series on Sunday with another doubleheader at App State's Beaver Field at Jim and Bettie Smith Stadium. The twinbill starts at 11 a.m.