JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Juan Correa's two-run homer off the Thomas Stadium scoreboard pulled App State Baseball even in the third inning, but a four-run bottom of the fourth propelled ETSU toward a 12-3 home victory Tuesday.
Jamie Palmese hit two-run homers in the fourth and eighth innings to lead the Buccaneers' offense.
ETSU scored single runs in the first and second innings, before freshly inserted App State reliever
Conner Barozzino stranded two with a strikeout to end the second.
Tyler Lichtenberger singled with one away in the third and scored on a two-out homer to left from Correa, who went deep for the fifth time in eight games for the Mountaineers (4-4).
The Buccaneers (5-2) scored four times off five straight hits in the fourth inning, including a two-run, two-out homer from Palmese to double their lead. ETSU scored unearned runs on two-out errors in the fifth and sixth innings off
Bradley Wilson to lead 8-2 before App State scored once in the seventh, as
Kameron Miller led off the inning with a double and scored from third on an RBI chopper from
Riley Luft.
Miller went 2-for-4 on a day in which the Mountaineers totaled five hits, and
Tyler Figueroa drew two walks.
Cody Little started on the mound for App State, and Barozzino followed his second-inning strikeout with a scoreless third before running into trouble in the fourth. Fellow newcomer
Liam Best tossed a scoreless seventh, and
Luke Coll struck out the only eighth-inning batter he faced after ETSU extended its lead with a pair of two-run homers.
The 2025 App State Baseball season is presented by Chick-fil-A. After playing in Hickory during the first two weekends of the season, the Mountaineers are scheduled to host Gardner-Webb in Boone on Friday (3 p.m.), Saturday (3 p.m.) and Sunday (1 p.m.).
Season tickets and
single-game tickets remain available for purchase. Registration has closed for App State Baseball's annual brunch, which will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. with Johnny Blankenship ('81) serving as the keynote speaker.
