High Point moved above .500 in Big South play with a 10-8 victory over Winthrop Monday night in Rock Hill.

The Panthers, who took the series two games to one after splitting Sunday's doubleheader, now stand at 22-24 overall, while Winthrop falls to 22-25 (5-10 Big South).

HPU scored four runs in the top of the third off Winthrop starter Jason Terry to build a 4-0 lead, but the Eagles came back in the bottom of the inning with four unearned runs to knot things up at 4-4.

Chris Vinar singled home Colin Cronin in the fourth to give HPU a short-lived 5-4 advantage, but Winthrop responded with an RBI single from Todd Leathers to tie things up yet again, before drawing walks from starter Kevin Burch and reliever Rusty Bodenheimer in the fifth to push three more runs across and take an 8-5 lead.

High Point reclaimed the lead at 9-8 in the sixth when Ryan Thiede lined a two-run homer off the scoreboard off Eagle reliever Jon Wilson. The Panthers then added a big insurance run in the ninth when Jayson Hoffman reached base on a throwing error, moved to third on a single by Matt Richardson and scored on a sacrifice fly by Cronin.

Bodenheimer earned the win in relief to improve his record to 4-3, while Chris Chandler earned his eighth save with a perfect ninth inning of work.

Wilson (0-1) suffered the loss for Winthrop.

The Panthers travel to Appalachian State Tuesday afternoon fro a 3:00 pm game before returning home to face Furman Wednesday afternoon (3:00 pm) at Erath Field.