The High Point baseball team had their bats silenced by the Winthrop pitching staff, losing game two of the three game set 3-1 at Coy O. Williard Stadium Sr Saturday afternoon.

Winthrop (9-2, 2-0) jumped out on the Panthers early, posting three runs in the first four innings of the game.  The scoring started in the third inning after two outs were recorded by HPU starter Jamie Serber.  Bryn Henderson singled through the left side followed by an Eddie Tisdale walk.  Kevin Nolan delivered his fourth RBI of the series plating Henderson on his single to left-center.  On the same play, Tisdale tried scoring all the way from first, but was gunned down at home on the relay throw from Alfie Wheeler, with Kyle Mahoney applying the tag.

The Eagles tacked on two more in the fourth which began with a single by John Murrian.  He scored on an Eddie Rohan double in the rightfield gap.  Murrian crossed the plate after back-to-back groundouts to the shortstop, with Chas Crane picking up the RBI.

HPU (4-5, 0-2) finally got on the board in the seventh inning starting with a Jeff Cowan double down the leftfield line.  WU reliever Greg Hough then came on and recorded the next two outs, but Sal Pezzino singled up the middle plating Cowan, making it a 3-1 contest.  For Pezzino, it was his first collegiate hit and RBI.

The Panthers threatened again in the eighth inning, but were unable to get anything across.  Wheeler singled up the box and Bill Manion reached on an error putting runners at first and second with no outs.  Mahoney took a 3-1 pitch and lined it into rightfield, but good positioning by WU made it an easy catch for the visitors.  The Eagles got out of the jam on the next hitter, getting a double-play ball.  High Point went down in order in the ninth.

Offensively, the Panthers were led by the double-play combination of Wheeler and Cowan, each picking up three hits.  Cowan inched closer to the HPU all-time hits record, now standing at 214, 42 hits away from the all-time mark.  He is also three hits away from moving into third place.  With his run scored in the seventh, the second baseman took sole possession of fourth place on the career runs scored list, passing HPU great Otis Foster.  Billy Alvino's hitting streak came to end at 12-games, while Wheeler currently has hit safely in six straight.  Serber suffered the loss, working six innings allowing just the three early runs on seven hits.  Corey Swickle was excellent in his three innings of relief, allowing just one runner to get on and striking out three.

Winthrop received a pair of hits from the top six hitters in their lineup, including a two from Henderson and Murrian.  Matteo D'Angelo picked up his second win of the season, tossing six innings of one-run ball.  Tyler Mizenko picked up his second save of the season working two scoreless innings.

The series finale will be Sunday afternoon, March 8, at Coy O. Williard Sr. Stadium with first pitch scheduled for 1:00 p.m.  Probable starting pitchers for the contest will be Brian Jones for High Point and Winthrop's Robert Lake.