HARRISONBURG, Va. – App State Baseball scored runs in each of its first four innings and got production up and down the lineup, locking up its first Sun Belt sweep of the season with a 14-10 victory over James Madison on Sunday.
The Mountaineers (22-16, 10-8) finished the weekend with 43 runs on 51 hits and have now won three consecutive Sun Belt series and four of its last five. It marks just the second time in program history that App State has plated more than 40 runs in a Sun Belt series.
Trailing 3-2 in the third inning, App State jumped in front, sending ten men to the plate and scoring four times.
Riley Luft opened the frame with a single and
Ethan Puig followed with a double to put two in scoring position. With two outs in the inning,
Jalen Seward delivered a go-ahead two-run single, beginning a stretch of five consecutive two-out base runners.
Following a
Drew DuPont single,
Charlie Evans delivered an RBI double – his second in the first three innings of play. Evans extended his hitting streak to 22 consecutive games, marking the fifth-longest streak in program history. He finished the game with three hits and reached base four times in the contest.
The Mountaineers continued to showcase their firepower in the fourth.
Kameron Miller belted his second home run of the weekend to push the lead to 9-3 and DuPont rapped a two-run double later in the frame.
Puig helped post another crooked number with a two-run double in the seventh. He finished with three hits, including a pair of doubles, and drove in a career-high four runs. He added another two-run double in the eighth, to cap a three-run frame, after
Steven Smith lined an RBI double earlier in the inning.
The offense finished the ballgame with 18 hits, including six Mountaineers who notched multi-hit efforts. App State tallied a season-high eight doubles in the contest.
Tanner Nolan improved to 4-0 on the season, tossing six innings in the start. He went through a stretch in the middle of his outing in which he retired 11 of 13 batters he faced.
Jordan Fisher covered the final 2.1 innings of the contest to lock down his third save of the season. Fisher retired seven of the nine batters he faced allowing just an unearned run to lower his ERA to 3.29 on the season. The save marked the eighth of his career, moving him into a tie for ninth on the all-time saves list.
App State will return to Boone for a four-game homestand next week, as the team hosts ETSU on Tuesday at 6 p.m. before welcoming Georgia Southern to Smith Stadium for a three-game weekend set.
The 2026 App State Baseball season is presented by Chick-fil-A.
