Postgame Notes from App State vs. Coastal Carolina

POSTGAME NOTES: Coastal Carolina 27, App State 24
 
App State is 3-3 through six games for the second straight season. The Mountaineers' three losses are by a combined 12 points, including a double-overtime loss at then-No. 17 North Carolina and three-point losses to Wyoming and Coastal Carolina.
 
App State lost on a final-play field goal for the first time since a 2017 double-overtime loss at UMass and on a field goal as time expired in regulation for the first time since 2000 at Chattanooga.
 
Coastal Carolina won for the first time in Boone (to move their all-time record in Boone to 1-6). The previous game in Boone was a 30-27 App State win over the 14th-ranked Chanticleers, also on a last-second field goal.
 
Official attendance for the sold-out Tuesday game at Kidd Brewer Stadium was 34,252. That's the seventh-largest crowd in stadium history and the largest for a Tuesday/Wednesday game anywhere since a 2011 game between Pitt and visiting UConn (40,219). The 2021 Wednesday game between App State and Coastal in Boone drew a sold-out attendance of 31,061.
 
The Mountaineers played most of the game without the nation's second-leading rusher. Nate Noel had a 1-yard run and a 4-yard catch on the first drive before a lower body injury kept him from returning.
 
App State had a -1 turnover margin in the game. The Mountaineers are now 5-11 under head coach Shawn Clark when losing the turnover battle. They are 17-1 when winning the turnover battle and 7-3 when they have the same number of turnovers as the opponent.
 
OFFENSE
 
App State was a perfect 4-for-4 in the red zone with three touchdowns and a field goal.
 
The Mountaineers' 305 passing yards were the second-most this season, while the 111 rushing yards marked a season low.
 
A running-back-by-committee after Noel went down to injury included 48 rushing yards from Kanye Roberts, 41 from Maquel Haywood and 15 from Ahmani Marshall, who notched his first touchdown of the season with a 3-yard score in the second quarter.
 
Joey Aguilar completed a pass to a season-high 11 receivers, the fourth time in his five full games to complete passes to nine or more receivers. Aguilar finished the game with 305  passing yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.
 
Makai Jackson and Milan Tucker had career-long catches of 67 and 69 yards, respectively.
 
Dalton Stroman's touchdown catch was his second of the season, and David Larkins' was his second also.
 
DEFENSE
 
Andrew Parker Jr. tied his career high with 12 tackles to lead all players in the game.
 
Caden Sullivan logged a career-high nine tackles. He had 1.5 TFLs, including a huge fourth-down stop of Grayson McCall in the fourth quarter that set up a potential go-ahead App State drive.
 
Ethan Johnson and Nate Johnson (no relation) also notched career highs with nine tackles and seven tackles, respectively.
 
SPECIAL TEAMS
 
Michael Hughes made his only field-goal attempt from 29 yards. He has now made 11 of 14 attempts on the year, including every attempt inside 44 yards.
 
Two of Mitchell Lake's four punts landed inside the 20. He averaged 41.2 yards per punt with a season-best long of 56.