BOONE, N.C. – After giving up the lead in a four-run top of the seventh inning, App State Baseball showed some late-game grit, tying the score in the home seventh and regaining the lead in the eighth in a 5-4 win over Marshall on Friday at Smith Stadium.
Due to forecasted inclement weather, first pitch of Saturday's series finale has been pushed up to 11 a.m.
Trailing 4-3 in the seventh,
Ethan Puig led off the inning with a single through the left side. After a
Kameron Millergroundout pushed Puig into scoring position,
Joseph Zamora came through with a game-tying RBI single, his third hit of the game.
Charlie Evans notched his third hit of the day to lead off the eighth and moved to second on a sacrifice from
Tank Yaghoubi. With two outs in the inning, Puig lined the go-ahead single to left field to plate the winning run for App State (15-14, 4-7).
Jordan Fisher earned his first win of the season with two scoreless innings and picked off the would-be tying run in the ninth.
Nick DiRito gave the Mountaineers a strong start to the ballgame. The right-hander did not give up a run until the seventh inning, and only once through the first six frames allowed Marshall to put multiple runners on base. He retired 11 of the first 13 batters and did not allow a runner to reach third base until the fifth inning.
Marshall (14-15, 6-5) broke up the shutout in the seventh, when each of the first four batters in the inning reached base. Evan Bottone doubled to right to push the first run across, and Tyler Kamerer followed with a two-run single up the middle to tie the score at 3-3. Copper Hinson notched the go-ahead hit with a go-ahead two-out single to center.
App State opened the scoring in the second. Zamora and
Tommy Walker led off the frame with back-to-back singles and
Jake Mummau pushed a pair into scoring position with a sacrifice bunt, leading to a sac fly from Evans.
Steven Smith led off the third with a double into the left field corner and advanced to third on an errant pickoff throw. With two outs in the inning, Miller smacked an RBI single through the right side to make it 2-0 Mountaineers.
App State pushed the advantage to 3-0 in the sixth. Zamora led off with a triple to right and came in to score on a ground ball from Walker one batter later.
App State tallied 13 hits in the ballgame, and four Mountaineers enjoyed multi-hit efforts.
The 2026 App State Baseball season is presented by Chick-fil-A.
