Box Score BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University baseball matched its third-highest hits total of the season with 10 but issued eight walks and committed two costly errors in an 8-3 loss to UNC Asheville on Tuesday afternoon at Beaver Field at Jim and Bettie Smith Stadium.

Brian Bauk went 3-for-5 and Matt Vernon went 2-for-5 with two RBI to pace Appalachian State's 10-hit attack. However, the 10 hits only translated into three runs — two on Vernon's two-run double in the first inning and one on true freshman Zach Santoro's RBI triple in the sixth.

UNC Asheville only scored in two innings but they were both big frames — a five-run third that erased the Mountaineers' 2-0 lead and a three-run seventh that broke open what was a 5-3 ballgame. Four walks and a two-out, two-run error by Santoro in left field were the biggest elements of the five-run third while a leadoff walk and an error by shortstop Henry Davis contributed to the three-run seventh.

Appalachian State (4-17) outhit UNC Asheville (5-15), 10-7.

Six Mountaineer pitchers combined to strike out 10 and surrender only seven hits but the eight walks, including six in 2.1 innings by starter Caleb McCann, proved to be the difference in the ballgame.

App State went with a staff day on the mound to allow freshman Breydan Gorham to skip his regular mid-week start and join the weekend rotation. Gorham (1-2, 3.09 ERA) will take the ball on Thursday when the Mountaineers open a three-game Sun Belt Conference series at UL Monroe. Game times for the Easter weekend set are slated for 7 p.m. ET Thursday, 7 p.m. ET Friday and 2 p.m. ET Saturday at ULM's Warhawk Field.