High Point received a solid pitching outing from Brian Jones and used a balanced offensive attack to take down #14 Coastal Carolina 7-2 Sunday afternoon at Williard Stadium. 

Coastal Carolina threatened to get on the board first in the second inning which started with Daniel Bowman hitting a one-out double down the leftfield line.  After a strikeout, Taylor Motter singled up the middle where centerfielder Bill Manion came up firing to gun Bowman out at the plate keeping the game scoreless.

Back-to-back walks to Eric Marion and Pablo Rosario followed by a bunt single from Jeff Cowan loaded the bases in the third inning for High Point.  Alfie Wheeler singled scoring Marion and Rosario for 2-0 lead.  Manion laid down a successful sacrifice bunt moving the runners up into scoring position.  Billy Alvino laced a ball to centerfield where Rico Noel had to jump to make the catch, but Cowan was able to cross home on the play.  A double off the bat of Kyle Mahoney plated Wheeler.  Max Fulginiti drew a walk before Spencer Andrews doubled down the leftfield line for the innings final run giving the Panthers a 5-0 advantage.

The two sides would exchange the next four runs beginning with CCU scoring their first run of the game in the fourth.  A double and a walk began the inning, followed by a fly out.  Another single up the middle loaded the bases for the visitors.  A potential double play ball was bobbled allowing David Anderson to score, but HPU still recorded an out on the play, forcing out Chance Gilmore at third base.  Jones induced a groundball to end the threat.

Fulginiti doubled down the rightfield line and would score on a Marion double off the right-centerfield wall upping the High Point lead to 6-1 after five innings.  For Coastal Carolina, they would respond the next half inning when Bowman scored on a sacrifice fly.

HPU would cap off the scoring in the contest posting a run in the bottom of the sixth.  Wheeler walked and moved up to second on a one-out hit-and-run executed by Alvino.  Fulginiti singled up the middle off of reliever Nick McCully, making it 7-2.

Jones would strikeout two batters in his final inning of work, including getting Gilmore looking to end the seventh.  Jeremy Berg came on to close out the contest, tossing two scoreless frames and got Anderson to strikeout swinging to end the game.

Eight different Panthers recorded a hit and all nine starters reached base safely in the contest.  Alvino, Cowan and Fulginiti all had a pair of hits while Wheeler knocked in two runs and Rosario drew two walks.  Fulginiti ran his hitting streak to 25-games, the longest current streak in the Big South.  Cowan's hitting streak now stands at 12 games and is just six hits shy of breaking the school's all-time hits mark.  Jones allowed just two runs in his seven innings of work and picked up four strikeouts.  The southpaw improved his record to 2-4 on the season. 

The series win is the first for High Point over Coastal Carolina and is also the first time they have won back-to-back games against a ranked opponent.  It was the third win of the week against a ranked opponent as the Panthers knocked off #5 North Carolina 11-9 Tuesday night at Boshamer Field in Chapel Hill.  HPU has won nine out of their last 12 games and are sitting at 16-19 overall and 9-9 in the Big South conference.

High Point returns to the diamond on Tuesday, April 21st when it hosts Wake Forest in a non-conference match-up with Wake Forest.  First pitch is set for a 6:00 p.m.