Elliott Avent collected his 900th win at NC State on Tuesday night as his Wolfpack squad put a hurtin’ on the visiting Appalachian State Mountaineers. NC State never trailed in the game, but it was relatively tight until the Pack blew this one wide open with a nine-run sixth inning.
Jonny Butler led off the bottom of the sixth with a ground out, and then the on-base parade began. The next 10 Wolfpack batters would reach base, three of them via walk. JT Jarrett’s bases-loaded double scored the first two runs of the inning. Run-scoring singles by Tyler McDonough, Luka Tresh, and Jose Torres would follow, which brought up Butler for the second time in the frame—and he delivered a double this time.