High Point's baseball team scored four runs in the top of the ninth inning to rally past UNC Asheville, 5-4 and complete a three-game sweep of the Big South Conference series Monday afternoon.

The Panthers (15-17, 4-5 BSC) trailed 2-1 in the top of the ninth but sent eight men to plate and scored four runs to grab a 5-2 lead.

The Bulldogs (9-19, 1-8 BSC) battled back in the bottom of the ninth and cut the lead to 5-4 on pinch-hitter Johnny Martinez's two-run homer. However, Panthers reliever Matt Kniginyzky (3-3) was able to get the final three outs to give the HPU the road sweep.

UNCA starter Ben Buchanan pitched eight innings, allowing five hits, two runs, walking three and striking out a career- high 10 batters. Randy Schwartz of High Point started the ninth inning uprising with a solo homer to knot the game at 2-2 and end the day for Buchanan.

Reliever Graham Baughn (1-2) came on for the Bulldogs. He got the first out but surrendered a single to Brett Lazar and a walk to Bobby Brown to put runners on first and second. Matt Christie gave the Panthers the lead for good at 3-2 on a run-scoring single to center field.

Brown and Christie then executed a double-steal to put runners on second and third. Josh Doane followed with a two-run single passed a drawn in Asheville infield to put HPU in front, 5-2.

UNC Asheville broke open a scoreless game with some two-out hitting in the fourth off High Point starter Bob Helman. Josh Coyle had a one-out triple. One out later, Elliott Arrington doubled to plate Coyle and put the Bulldogs in front, 1-0. Whited followed with an RBI-single to push the lead to 2-0.

It stayed 2-0 until the sixth when Seby Renta hit a solo homer to get the Panthers on the board as they cut the lead to 2-1.

High Point got two hits each from Chris Ramirez and Schwartz.

HPU will host UNC Greensboro Tuesday afternoon. First pitch at Erath Field is set for 3:00 pm. The Bulldogs will play next in an exhibition game against the Single A Asheville Tourists Tuesday night at McCormick Field starting at 7 p.m.