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The High Point University baseball team split a double header with Gardner-Webb Friday, dropping the second game 11-4 at Moss Stadium in Boiling Springs, N.C. The third game of the series is scheduled for Saturday at 2 p.m.

“Things are not coming easy for us right now,” said head coach Craig Cozart. “But that is just part of the ebb and flow of a baseball season. Two big innings beat us tonight but we are in position to win the series and that is what we have to focus on.”

Sophomore Jared Avidon went just three innings, allowing seven runs, five earned, on five hits with four walks and six strikeouts. He drops to 1-2 with the loss.

A leadoff walk to Benji Jackson in the first inning came back to haunt the Panthers as he came around to score on a double by Jake Watts. Avidon gave up two more runs in the third inning, on three hits including a leadoff double by Daniel Merck.

High Point tied the game 3-3 with two runs in the fourth inning. Drew Geissinger and Murray White IV# each singled and scored to knot up the score.

Gardner-Webb answered with four runs in the bottom of the inning to jump out to a 7-3 lead. Aaron Miller led off the inning with a triple off Avidon and a walk, an error and a base hit pushed in one run and loaded the bases for Dusty Quattlebaum. The first baseman doubled to left centerfield to score two runs and knock Avidon out of the game. Steven Schils took over, allowing one inherited runner to score on a sacrifice fly before getting out of the inning.

Robbie Gilles hit a solo home run in the sixth to make it a 6-4 GWU lead.

Gardner-Webb added a run in the seventh and three more in the eighth off Mikel Rodenberg who also struck out five in 2-1/3 innings of work.

Connor Scarborough got the win for Gardner-Webb, giving up four runs, three earned in six innings. Emilio Pagan and Brett Stackhouse kept the Panthers scoreless in the final three innings.

Geissinger finished the night 2-3 with a run scored. High Point falls to 14-11 (2-3 Big South Conference) with the loss.