KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Appalachian State Baseball opened the 2019 season with a 6-0 loss at Tennessee, which led 1-0 entering the bottom of the sixth inning.
App State starting pitcher Will Sprinkle held the Volunteers' offense in check through five innings, allowing the single run on a third-inning sacrifice fly. Tennessee moved ahead 3-0 with solo home runs from Justin Ammons and Evan Russell in the sixth.
Sprinkle finished with three perfect innings, two strikeouts, no walks, five hits allowed and three runs allowed in six innings. The Volunteers added two more runs on a pair of sacrifice flies in the seventh inning and scored an unearned run in the eighth.