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BOONE, N.C. – The University of South Alabama baseball team recorded nine extra-base hits, including four home runs, in a 13-6 win over Appalachian State in Sun Belt Conference East Division action Saturday at Beaver Field.

USA (28-22, 14-12 Sun Belt) clinched the series with the win, and extended its season-best win streak to seven games.

South Alabama will return to action Sunday when it faces Appalachian State at 10 a.m. (CT) in the series finale at Beaver Field.
 
GAME FACTS
- South Alabama jumped out to a three-run lead in the top of the first inning on a two-out, three-run home run by Wells Davis.
- App State (21-26, 14-12 Sun Belt) loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the first on consecutive one-out walks by Bailey Welch and Luke Drumheller, and a hit by pitch to Kendall McGowan. Phillip Cole followed with a sacrifice fly to right field to score Welch and cut the USA lead to 3-1.
- The Jags responded in the top of the third when Ethan Wilson lifted a 1-1 pitch from App State right-hander Brandon Boone over the right field wall to lead off the inning and extend the USA lead to 4-1. Kaleb DeLaTorre reached on a one-out single before Davis delivered a two-run home run to right field on the first pitch he saw from Boone over the right field wall for a 6-1 Jag advantage.
- USA extended its lead to 7-1 in the top of the fourth on a two-out RBI single to right field by Michael Sandle to score Nick Lewis, who reached on a two-out double earlier in the inning.
- The Mountaineers answered in the bottom of the fifth on a one-out solo home run to right field by Kendall McGowan to cut the Jaguar lead to 7-2.
- South Alabama loaded the bases with one out in the top of the seventh on an infield single by Dakota Dailey, and consecutive walks by Carter Perkins and Sant Montiel. Reid Powers followed with a two-run single through the left side of the infield to score Dailey and Perkins for a 9-2 Jaguar advantage. Nick Lewis then delivered a two-out RBI single through the left side of the infield to score Montiel and push the USA lead to 10-2. Wilson followed with a two-run home run to left-center field, his second of the game, to extend the Jaguar lead to 12-2. DeLaTorre then delivered a two-out RBI single to right field to score Sandle, who doubled earlier in the frame, for a 13-2 advantage.
- App State cut the USA lead to 13-3 in the bottom of the eighth on a pinch-hit RBI single through the left side of the infield by CJ Brown. Riley Smith delivered a one-out, two-run single through the left side of the infield later in the inning to cut the Jaguar advantage to 13-5. Bailey Welch then cut the Jaguar lead to 13-6 with a two-out RBI single to left field.

NOTES
- Davis' and Wilson's two home runs marked the first time a Jaguar has hit multiple home runs in a game since Sandle on May 7 this season at Southeastern Louisiana. Davis also pushed his home run total against Appalachian State to seven in eight career games, with six of those coming in Boone, N.C.
- Sandle extended his on-base streak to 14 games and his hitting streak to eight games with a two-out RBI single in the top of the fourth inning.
- Davis extended his hitting streak to five games with a three-run home run in the top of the first inning. His two home runs moved him into seventh place on the career record list at USA, passing Luis Gonzalez (32) and Jeff Cunningham (22).
- Eight Jaguar starters hit safely in the game, with six recording multiple hits.
- The win marked the Jaguars' eighth straight over App State.

Head Coach Mark Calvi
- On Patrick McBride:
"I thought he was really good; he had his changeup going. The difference between (Patrick) McBride this year and last year is the trust factor; I trust him a lot more. He has earned that trust, it hasn't been given. He's been given some opportunities, and he has earned that trust. He earned the right to stay out there and work through that first inning with a hit by pitch and a couple of walks. It didn't feel good, but when you look out there at him – it's a different McBride, he's just off to a bad start and will get it together, and he did. He pitched to contact, had some swing-and-misses with his changeup and we played really good defense behind him. I thought he was fantastic after the first (inning). When it's not easy and a guy is still competing and working to find the mark with some of his pitches – that's a competitor and a guy you trust and believe in, not only as a coaching staff, but his team believed that he got off to a rocky start and he is competing and work his way through it, and that's what he did."

- On the offense:
"I thought the whole team did a nice job today. One through five (in the lineup) did a lot of damage today. I thought the big hit came in the seventh inning; App State never quits, and they have some good hitters on their club, and Reid (Powers) hit that two-out, two-run single which was very big. The thing that I was very impressed with was eight of those runs came with two outs. Our guys did a great job of extending the inning. Two-out hits break the other team; they help lift a team and help break the other team, and our guys did a lot of that. We played really good defense and got really strong pitching today from Patrick McBride. I'm just proud of the whole team today."

NEXT UP
South Alabama will return to action Sunday when it faces Appalachian State at 10 a.m. (CT) in the series finale at Beaver Field.

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