Box Score Birmingham-Southern pounded out 20 hits and Jared Walker drove in four runs to lead the visiting Panthers to a 14-7 victory over High Point Friday afternoon in the opener of a three-game Big South series at Erath Field. 

David Horne (7-1) allowed one earned run in seven innings of work to earn the win for BSC, while Bob Helman (1-6) took the loss for for HPU.

The game featured a combined 30 hits and 10 errors.

BSC (30-10, 12-1 Big South) began the game with five consecutive hits and put four runs up in the process for an early 4-0 lead. Walker collected two of his four RBI on the day when his single scored Michael Cline and Matt Bogue, and the visiting Panthers made it 4-0 following a double by Connor Robertson and a single by Ryan Griffith which scored Walker and Robertson, respectively.

HPU (6-35, 1-12) countered with a run in the bottom of the first when Matt Keever reached on an infield single, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on a base hit by Seby Renta.

Birmingham-Southern scored three more in the second for a 7-1 lead. Michael Wydner reached on a lead-off single and scored on the first of Cline's two triples on the day. Cline scored when Walker reached on a throwing error, and Walker came around on a Griffith single.

High Point got within 7-2 in the bottom of the inning when Mark Shorey reached on an error, advanced to second on a groundout and scored on a single by Matt Richardson. The homestanding Panthers added another run to cut the deficit to 7-3 in the bottom of the fourth when Chris Draska, who had reached on a fielding error, came around to score when Anthony Bell got to first on another fielding miscue.

BSC came back with two in the top of the fifth and one in the sixth to lengthen its lead to 10-3. Walker's two-run single in the fifth and Robertson coming around on a wild pitch in the sixth did the damage.

High Point then clawed within 10-6 after scoring three times in the bottom of the sixth. Richardson's two-run single which scored Shorey and Corey Stang was the biggest blow.

But BSC put the game out of reach wth three runs in the seventh on a two-run triple by Cline and an infield single by Walker.

Cline, Walker and Griffith each had three hits for Birmingham-Southern. Stang led the way with three hits for HPU.

Five of the six runs Horne allowed were unearned.

The teams play again Saturday at noon. Matt Kniginyzky wiill start for High Point against BSC's Josh Britnell.  Click here for live stats.