Box Score BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University baseball managed only four hits against South Alabama right-hander Hunter Soleymani and lost to the 23rd-ranked Jaguars, 8-1, on Saturday afternoon at Beaver Field at Jim and Bettie Smith Stadium.

Coupled with Appalachian State's 4-3 win on Friday, Saturday's result evened this weekend's three-game Sun Belt Conference series at a game apiece. The rubber match is set for Sunday at noon (please note change from original game time) at Smith Stadium.

Soleymani was the story of Saturday's contest, as he needed just 102 pitches to toss the complete-game four-hitter. The right-handed senior was not overpowering (he struck out only three) but he kept the Mountaineers off-balance for much of the afternoon with his breaking ball and induced 13 groundball outs.

Appalachian State freshman Breydan Gorham matched Soleymani pitch-for-pitch through three innings but the Jaguars benefited from two Mountaineer errors to break a scoreless tie with an unearned run in the fourth.

South Alabama (27-9, 16-1 Sun Belt) went on to score two runs in the fifth, two in the sixth and three in the seventh to take a commanding 8-0 lead. App State (9-26, 4-13 Sun Belt) committed four errors on the afternoon, which led to half of USA's eight runs being unearned.

Grayson Atwood broke up Soleymani's shutout bid with a towering solo home run in the eighth. The homer was Atwood's first of the season and the first by a Mountaineer at Smith Stadium in 2016.

No. 9 hitter Adam Wolfe went 3-for-4 with a double, home run, three RBI and two runs scored to lead South Alabama's 11-hit attack.