Duke One-Hits Appalachian State on Tuesday

Tuesday, March 7

Durham, N.C.

4 PM

Duke University

9-3

Appalachian State

8-2

Appalachian State

Duke

Duke One-Hits Appalachian State on Tuesday

3/7/2023 7:31:00 PM | Baseball

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DURHAM – Duke Baseball (9-3) one-hit Appalachian State (8-3) on Tuesday at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, defeating the Mountaineers 5-0 for the third shutout of the season. The one-hitter is the first for the Blue Devils since March 21, 2021, when Duke one-hit Notre Dame.

Graduate transfer Alex Gow had another impressive start on the mound for the Blue Devils, working five innings of one-hit baseball and struck out a season-high six batters. He improved to 2-0 on the season, with wins in his last two starts.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Junior Alex Stone opened the scoring for Duke in the bottom of the first inning, grounding out to shortstop to score Alex Mooney from third, 1-0. Freshman Andrew Fischer doubled to the gap in left center, scoring Luke Storm to double the lead, 2-0.
Freshman Tyler Albright added to the Blue Devils lead in the bottom of the sixth, singling up the middle to score a pair, 4-0.
Storm added a key insurance run in the seventh, hitting a solo shot to right center field, 5-0.

NOTES

Freshman Andrew Fischer doubled in his first at bat of the game, extending his hitting streak to eight games since joining the lineup.
Graduate transfer Alex Gow worked a season-high five innings and struck out six batters in route to his second victory of the season.
Junior Luke Storm hit his fourth home run of the season, a solo shot to right center field. Storm hit two home runs in Duke's 21-2 victory over Princeton.
Freshman Owen Proksch worked two innings of no-hit baseball with three strikeouts in relief.
Graduate transfer Charlie Beilenson also worked two innings in relief, not allowing a hit and striking out a pair.
Freshman Tyler Albright drove in a game-high two RBI, with a single in the bottom of the sixth.

QUOTES

"I just told our guys, when you are playing a double midweek like this and you have conference coming up, you need your Tuesday guy to go out and give you a good start. He not only gave us a good start, but he also gave us a great start. That was huge because it allowed us to get through the game in the pen with Proksch and Beilenson, with a chance to bring everybody back tomorrow without extending everybody. I thought it was a good job of calling the game by coach Kirkpatrick tonight. I thought he called a terrific game." – Head coach Chris Pollard on the start that Alex Gow gave.
"I thought we were really good in the first with two outs. We had a chance when we had a runner at second with no outs, but we didn't score him or move him and ran ourselves out of the inning. You don't go out and score 11 every night. We had a really good sequence there to get the two in the sixth and Storm hits a solo in the seventh." – On the offensive approach tonight.
"We had some phenomenal infield defense tonight, especially Alex Mooney. We have a lot of confidence in Cole Hebble and Jay Beshears so moving them around allowed us to get a different look. We think both give us a lot of options, but the defense tonight gave us a ton of range and ability. Hebble is a veteran, and he has a lot of range out there, but Mooney made play after play tonight." – On the strong defense by the Blue Devils Tuesday.