High Point scored five runs in the first inning and put up six runs in the fourth en route to an 18-5 win over Campbell Friday afternoon at Erath Field. 

The Panthers snapped a three-game skid and improve to 6-8 on the season, while the visiting Camels drop to 7-3.

Freshman Eammon Portice (2-0) allowed two earned runs in seven innings of work to pick up his second win of the year, while High Point native Tyler Sexton (0-1) took the loss for Campbell.

The Panthers tallied 18 runs in a game for the second time this season. HPU pounded North Carolina A&T, 18-3, on Feb. 20.

Ro Castro, Josh Cotten and Seby Renta drove in three runs apiece for High Point. Chris Ramirez collected a game-high three hits, while Cotten and Mark Shorey each had two hits.

Freshman Bubba O'Donnell threw two scoreless innings of relief in his collegiate debut.

Mike Priest, Jeff Randol, Justin Phillips and Jeff Blick each had two hits for the Camels, who were out-hit 14-10. The Panthers took advantage of four Campbell errors.

After the Camels scored a pair of unearned runs in the first, the Panthers put up five runs in the bottom of the frame. Cotten singled up the middle to score Ramirez and Josh Doane, Dustin Holtzman drew a one-out bases-loaded walk which plated Jeremy Neyra, and Shorey and Cotten came around when Castro reached on an error by the Camel rightfielder.

The Camels got within 5-4 with single runs in the second and third. Nate Logan led off the second with a double and scored on a failed pickoff attempt, and Priest scored on an RBI single in the third by Randol.

But HPU came back with a fury, posting six runs in the fourth. Shorey drove home Cotten and Randy Schwartz, and Doane's double later in the inning plated Castro and Holtzman for an 11-4 cushion.

The Panthers scored a single run in the fifth, two in the seventh and four in the eighth (including Brett Lazar's two-run single which scored Ramirez and Juan Carcheri).

Sexton allowed 10 runs (six earned) while walking seven and striking out four in 3 1/3 innings of work.

The teams move to Buies Creek for a Saturday doubleheader beginning at noon.