Winners of seven of eight, High Point remains on the road for its mid-week contest, visiting Charlotte on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Junior Matt Hodges (1-0) recorded his first win of the year out of the bullpen, giving up a run on three hits in three innings with four strikeouts. On the hill, sophomore Grey Lyttle made his first career start and yielded five runs on seven hits in four-plus innings. Senior Austen Zente pushed his hitting streak to 11 games with 1-for-6 day at the dish. Jackson drove in three and Brown plated a pair to account for the multi-RBI games. Wells and Holt also had multi-hit games with two hits each. Dunbar led the charge, going 3-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBI and was joined by Schunk (3-for-5, 2 2B, 2 R, RBI) with three hits. It marked the third time in the stretch that Lee has extended the streak in his fifth plate appearance and the fourth time he's done so by going yard.Īll nine High Point position players recorded at least one hit and scored at least one run while seven different players drove in at least one tally. Senior Hunter Lee, who needed a hit in his at-bat leading off the eighth inning to extend his hitting streak to 27 games, laced a no-doubt solo big fly with two strikes to push the lead to 13-6. Senior Blake Schunk drove in the first run with an RBI double to left and was followed two batters later by junior Conner Dunbar, who launched a three-run missile off the batters eye in center field to put HPU up by six, 12-6. HPU regained control in the top of the seventh inning with four hits in a five-batter span. However, Gardner-Webb (21-17, 7-8) scored six runs on four taters over the next three innings to get back in the game at 8-6. The Panthers added two runs in the top of the fourth inning on an RBI single from freshman Travis Holt and a passed ball to increased the lead to 8-0. Senior Carson Jackson tattooed a three-run shot in the third inning to double High Point's advantage to 6-0. After a single, senior Spencer Brown connected on his first round-tripper of the year to put the Panthers ahead 3-0. In 15 games against Big South competition, High Point has blasted 29 bombs.įreshman Tanner Wells started the onslaught with a solo jack in the top of the second inning. The Panthers, who have surpassed last year's total of 43 homers, have now hit 41 home runs in their last 22 games, including a preposterous 23 in the last eight contests. HPU (20-15, 11-4) continued its torrid pace with the long ball, increasing its league-leading total to 44 dingers with the five on Saturday evening. This was a tough thing to do on the road to win a doubleheader and our guys got it done. "We had a lot of good contributions from different people, Hunter Lee continues to go and we pieced it together on the mound. "Our offense showed up and we needed every run we scored," head coach Craig Cozart said. The Panthers have now won all five of their Big South series this season. – Behind a 15-hit attack featuring five home runs, the High Point University baseball team rolled to a 13-8 victory over Gardner-Webb in the nightcap of Saturday's doubleheader at Moss Stadium. HPU has now won all five of its Big South series this year and improved to 11-4 in conference play.īOILING SPRINGS, N.C. ![]() All nine Panther position players recorded at least one hit and scored at least one run while seven different players contributed at least one RBI.High Point belted five home runs, one off a program record set last week, to run the season-long total to a league-best 44.January 16th: No Classes (Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() January 20th 4pm: Last Day for Meal Plan Changes January 8th 1pm – Residential Facilities Re-Open for Spring Semester Students can change their meal plans within the first two weeks of each semester only, the deadline for spring semester 2023 is January 27, 2023. ![]()
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