| Grand Slam in ninth ended in Bulldog
victory over Mountaineers |
Josh Dernosek
Sports Major Beat |
Josh Brown | Chief PhotographerDuring the game agianst The Citadel,
Eric Pittman (15) looks to make a play at home. The grand slam
in the top of the ninth sealed the victory for the Bulldogs over
the Mountaineers.
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The Appalachian State University
baseball team finally made an appearance in Boone this weekend.
After a long road trip to open the season out
of Boone, the Mountaineers returned looking to improve on an already
struggling record. The Citadel marched up the mountain with other
ideas in mind.
Game three looked to be Appalachian’s best
chance of pulling out a victory with a late game lead. Josh Stackley
hit a grand slam just inside the left field foul pole in the top
of the ninth inning to lift The Citadel over Appalachian State University
12-8. The win capped The Citadel’s three-game sweep at Red
Lackey Field.
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| Constant lead gave Cougars defeat
over Mountaineers |
Allie Woods
Sports Minor Beat |
Josh Brown | Chief Photographer Christa Hicks (8) tags College
of Charleston player during the game on Sunday. The Mountaineers
started out on top with the first score of the game, but would
not be able to score again, only to be defeated by the Charleston
Cougars 9-1.
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Two big innings for the College
of Charleston helped push the Cougars to a 9-1 victory over the
Appalachian State University softball team Sunday.
The Mountaineers started out well, gaining a
1-0 lead in the bottom of the first, but the lead would not last
long. In the top of the second inning the Cougar bats got going
to get that run back and provide some breathing room in the top
of the third.
“College of Charleston did a really good
job, they came up here to hit and they hit the ball hard,”
head coach Willie Rucker said. “They showed us how to hit today
because we obviously didn’t bring our bat one through nine.”
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| Club snowboarding boasts after second
season, high national ranking |
Brad Norman
Club/ Intramural Sports Beat |
Special to the Appalachian (l-r) Greg Davis, Michael Brewer
and Adam Chesson traveled to Northstar Mountain to compete in
nationals and finished third in the nation.
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Adam Chesson had an idea
in the early summer of 2002.
It was an idea that was not only drastic at the
time, but somewhat inconceivable as well.
After all, Appalachian had never had a snowboarding
team like Chesson conceived, much less the funds to support a new
club team.
The membership of the team would have to be limited
since the team would have to rely on its own funds. But now, nine
months and two season later, Appalachian boasts a snowboarding team
that not only just completed its first season as a club sport but
finished third overall in the nation, a feat that not even the team
expected.
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| ASU downs UTC |
Josh
Dernosek
Sports Major Beat |
Appalachian State University took four of six singles matches to
edge the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 4-3 in men’s
tennis action in Boone.
Doug Ormsby from Laurinburg took his match at
No. 2 singles by downing Thomas Knizat 7-5, 6-4. ASU’s Ben
Shuster from Greensboro also won his match at No. 3, beating Chattanooga’s
John Hangstefer, by a 6-1, 6-2 count.
Andrew Taylor from Parkland, Fla., bounced back
after falling in the first set to win his match at No. 5 singles
over Tim Kutschera 4-6, 7-6, 6-1.
Appalachian also took the No. 6 match as Jacob
Stapleton from Boone downed Dustin Kane 6-2, 6-2. The win improves
Appalachian to 8-6 overall, 3-2 in Southern Conference play. Appalachian
returns to action on March 25 as they travel to Davidson College.
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| Fee claims second All-American
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Allie Woods
Sports Minor Beat |
Senior
wrestler Mark Fee earned his second consecutive All-American designation
and a seventh place finish at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in
Kansas City, Mo.
Fee finishes his senior campaign with a 33-6
overall record with six victories coming by pinfall.
After a loss in the main draw, Fee rebounded
to take a 7-2 victory over Harvard University’s Pat O’Donnell.
Later, in more wrestle back competition, Fee
lost to Oklahoma State University’s Chris Pendleton by a count
of 12-8.
In the seventh-place match Fee defeated fourth-seed
Ryan Lange from Purdue University by a pinfall at the 1:57 mark.
This is the second consecutive All-American accomplishment
for Fee.
In 1970 and 1971 heavyweight Bruce Schlegal was
the only other Appalachian wrestler to win back-to-back All-American
awards.
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