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Jamari Moss went 2-for-3 against App State on Wednesday.
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Winner Appalachian State APP 17-21
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North Carolina A&T NCAT 9-30
Winner
Appalachian State APP
17-21
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Final
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North Carolina A&T NCAT
9-30
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Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Appalachian State APP 0 0 0 8 3 11 12 2
North Carolina A&T NCAT 0 2 1 0 0 3 6 0

W: Sejal Neas (8-10) L: Kirkpatrick, Sharla (4-12)

Game Recap: Softball |

Mountaineers Score Eight In The Fourth, Beat A&T

Joey Barkhimer goes 2-for-3.

GREENSBORO – North Carolina A&T softball added a game on Wednesday against the Appalachian State Mountaineers at the Lady Aggies Softball Complex. The additional game started well for the Aggies, but an eight-run fourth inning led the Mountaineers to an 11-3 win in eight innings. 

The Aggie dropped to 9-30 overall, but junior Joey Barkhimer had a 2-for-3 day with an RBI. App State improved to 17-21 after Kayt Houston went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and two doubles. 

The Aggies scored early against App starter Sejal Neas (W, 8-10). Graduate Brenay Howard scored on an error off the bat of freshman Destiny Sims before freshman Trinity Glover grounded out to bring in freshman Avery Evans, who also reached on an error. The Aggies took a 3-0 lead in the third as senior Alyxx Estrada doubled with one out before Barkhimer brought her home on an RBI single. 

Meanwhile, A&T starter Sharla Kirkpatrick (L, 4-12) breezed through the first three innings by giving up only one hit. In fact, she retired nine Mountaineers in a row before Peyton Darnell doubled to right center with one out in the fourth. It changed the entire complexity of the game. 

One batter later, Abby Cunningham walked, and Addie Wray singled to load the bases with two outs. Macy Hamby cleared the bases with a double to left center, tying the game at 3-3. The Mountaineers kept the inning going with a Brooke Kennerly walk, followed by an Olivia Cook single to score Hamby, giving App State the lead. 

Another single by Grace Barrett scored another App State, leading to Kirkpatrick's departure for graduate pitcher Kayla Douglas. Houston greeted Douglas with an RBI double before Ambry Lucas's two-run double closed out the eight-run inning for the Mountaineers, giving them an 8-3 lead. 

App State posted three more runs in the fifth, Barrett delivering a two-run RBI single, and Houston closed out the App State scoring with an RBI single to left. The Mountaineers' three-run inning gave them an 11-3 lead, igniting the run rule that ends the game if a team is winning after their fifth inning. 

A&T tried to keep the game going beyond the fifth as Barkhimer and freshman Jamari Moss singled with two outs. But senior Kayla Taylor flew out to center field to end the game. 

Moss went 2-for-3 for the Aggies, who start a weekend series with the College of Charleston on Friday with a 5 p.m. start at Patriots Point. 

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