The High Point baseball team belted out 16 hits and got another solid pitching performance from Eammon Portice en route to a 9-6 win over Wofford on Wednesday afternoon at Erath Field.

All nine HPU starters recorded a hit on the day as the Panthers improved to 19-21 overall. It was High Point's second straight victory and its 11th in the last 13 games. The victory marked HPU's fourth straight non-conference win and gave them the season sweep over Wofford, who slipped to 15-22 on the year following their 14th consecutive defeat. With 19 wins, High Point has also already matched their win total from a season ago.

After going down in order in the first, High Point batted around in the second inning scoring six runs on seven hits. HPU got singles from J. Williams, Randy Schwartz, Dustin Holtzman, Jeff Cowan and Chris Norwood with Mark Shorey chipping in a double and Matt Gantner adding a triple in the frame.

That was enough cushion for Portice (5-4), who picked up his fifth win of the season after working seven innings and allowing just one earned run on four hits with seven strikeouts. Portice was perfect through the first three innings and only allowed on base runner past second until an error in the seventh.

High Point added a run to their lead in the fourth as Holtzman led off the frame with a single then moved to second on a balk before stealing third. He then came home on an RBI single by Cowan.

Wofford plated a pair of runs in the seventh snapping their scoreless streak at 25 innings. The Terriers cut the lead to 7-3 in the eighth after Eric Sturkie homered off HPU reliever Zach Scott to start the inning.

The Panthers added an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth on an RBI single from Billy Aguiar. Norwood drew a two-out walk and then stole second before scoring on Aguiar's hit.

A single, double and two-out two-run homer by Chuck Eller made things interesting in the ninth as Wofford pulled to within 9-6, before Panther hurler Chris Marks got Adam Wood to fly-out to end the game.

"Early on it looked like we wouldn't need many runs to get the win," said HPU head coach Sal Bando, Jr. "But it ended up that we needed every one we got because to their credit Wofford just kept battling. I was proud of our offensive and the approach all our hitters took at the plate today. It is a great feeling to keep winning. It is nice to be off for Easter and it is a much-needed and much-deserved break for our guys."

For the day, six different Panthers posted multi-hit games led by Cowan's 3-for-5 performance. Cowan, who drove in a pair of runs and scored once, extended his current hit streak to 13 games. Gantner drove in a team best three runs versus the Terriers.

Adam Wood (0-3) took the loss for Wofford going just 1.2 innings and allowing six runs on seven hits. A quartet of WC hitters had two hits each with Eller and Sturkie driving in two runs.

High Point will enjoy nearly a week off from competition before returning to the diamond next Tuesday at long-time rival Elon at 7 p.m. HPU returns to Big South play on Apr. 21-23, when the Panthers host UNC Asheville.