Box Score DECATUR, Ga. — Georgia State's Wayne Wages took a perfect game into the ninth inning of the Panthers' 10-0 win over Appalachian State University baseball on Friday evening at the GSU Baseball Complex.

Freshman pinch-hitter Jason Curtis broke up the perfect game with a clean base hit up the middle with one out in the ninth. Wages retired Appalachian State's final two batters to finish off the one-hit, complete-game gem.

Before Curtis ended perfect-game bid in the ninth, the closest that Appalachian State (10-28, 5-14 Sun Belt) came to getting a hit off Wages was in the second inning. Sophomore Conner Leonard led off the second with a line drive into the right-center field gap and seemed destined for extra bases until GSU center fielder Ryan Blanton made a spectacular diving catch.

That was the fourth of 25-straight outs for Wages, who was just two outs away from perfection when Curtis came up to pinch-hit for designated hitter Parker Henderson in the ninth. Curtis ripped a 1-1 pitch back up the middle, out of the reach of lunging shortstop Justin Jones and into center field for the Mountaineers' only hit of the ballgame.

Wages struck out nine and threw 107 pitches in the near-perfect game. The senior southpaw only went to a three-ball count three times — against Brian Bauk in the fourth (foul out to first), against Grayson Atwood in the eighth (foul out to first) and against pinch-hitter Drake Zupcic to lead off the ninth (strikeout).

Conversely, Georgia State (17-20, 6-10 Sun Belt) scored early and often. The Panthers quickly gave Wages a cushion with four runs in the first and expanded the lead to 10-0 with two runs in the third, one in the fourth and three in the seventh.

Every member of GSU's starting lineup had at least one hit. James Clement went 3-for-4 and Joey Roach finished 2-for-5 with a double, home run and two RBI to headline the Panthers' 16-hit outburst.

The second game of the three-game weekend series is set for Saturday at 2 p.m.