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Game 1 Story

A five-run second inning lifted Troy over the High Point University baseball team, 6-1, Saturday in the second game of the double-header. High Point had three hits and a run in the first innings but managed just one hit for the rest of the game.

“Tonight one big inning beat us,” said head coach Craig Cozart. “When we manage one hit after the first inning it tells me we shut it down as team. We are starting to figure out where the pieces fit but there isn't any margin for error against a very good Troy team.”

High Point falls to 0-3 on the season with the final game of the series to be played Sunday at 2 p.m.

In his first start of the season senior Mike Caldwell gave up six earned runs with two walks and two strikeouts in five innings of work. Troy tagged Caldwell for five of the runs in the second inning, adding one more in the fourth in the fourth on a solo home run off the bat of Tyler Hannah.

High Point put up a run in the first inning for the third consecutive game. Sal Pezzino reached on a two-out single and moved to third on a single by Steve Antolik. Kyle Mahoney singled through the right side to score Pezzino and pick up his first RBI of the season.

Caldwell allowed two singles and two walks to bring in one run and load the bases in the second. Adam Bryant cleared the bases with a double down the left field line. Troy led 5-1 at the end of the second.

Troy starter Drew Hull retired 11 straight after Mahoney's single before hitting Robbie Gilles with a pitch in the fifth inning. Gilles was erased on a double play ball off the bat of Maverick Miles. HPU stranded two more runners in the sixth. Hull pitched six innings, scattering four hits and one walk with five strikeouts.

Freshman John Maloney made his collegiate debut pitching a perfect sixth inning with two strikeouts. Nick Schumacher took the mound for a scoreless seventh inning, despite allowing a double and a walk.
Sophomore Steven Roche got three ground balls in the eighth to keep the Trojans off the board.

HPU's good innings out of the bullpen were matched by Troy who got three perfect innings from Shane McCain who struck out seven batters.