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ECU: So., RH Davis Kilpatrick
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Michael Hennessey
HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University baseball team welcomes #20 East Carolina to Williard Stadium on Wednesday, April 20, in the second of two-straight midweek contests.
Senior
Michael Hennessey will take the mound against East Carolina in his fifth start of the season. The right-hander is 2-2 with a 6.91 ERA in 28.2 innings. He has struck out 25 while only walking nine on the season. Hennessey performed well in starts against Wright State and La Salle earlier this season, going seven innings and striking out six to earn the win in both affairs. Right-hander Davis Kilpatrick will start for East Carolina. He is 0-1 with a 5.09 ERA and 11 strikeouts in 17-2/3 innings.
High Point is coming off a crazy 17-16 win over Elon at Williard Stadium on Tuesday. The Panthers used a 10-run seventh inning to erase a five-run deficit and held on for the one-run win.
High Point trailed by five, 11-6, at the seventh-inning stretch before taking the lead with a 10-run inning, the most runs scored by the Panthers in an inning this season. Junior
Josh Greene hit his third home run of the season over the short porch in right-center to start the inning before HPU loaded the bases on three-straight walks. A wild pitch scored sophomore
Austen Zente then freshman
Conner Dunbar pinch hit and delivered a two-run single to pull the Panthers within one.
A passed ball allowed junior
Drew Fopeano to score the tying run then junior
Chris Clare hit a sacrifice fly, scoring Dunbar as the go-ahead run. Sophomore
Hunter Lee scored on a wild pitch before back-to-back RBI doubles by senior
Dominic Fazio and sophomore
Carson Jackson and an RBI single by senior
Tim Mansfield drove in the final three runs in the inning. All told, High Point sent 14 people to the plate in the seventh, turning an 11-6 deficit into a 16-11 lead.
The Panthers added an insurance run in the eighth on an RBI single by Greene that proved very valuable as Elon scored five times in the ninth to close to within one at 17-16. Austin Leeney hit an RBI single to drive in the first run while both Nick Zammarelli and Tyler McVicar had two RBI before senior
Tyler Britton got a pop-up with the tying run on first to end the contest.
Peter Ripke earned the win to improve to 2-0 on the season after allowing one run on two hits in his one inning of work. HPU starter
Cooper Jeffers pitched four innings and allowed six runs, two earned, on five hits and two walks while striking out three.
Dimitri Lettas was one of four pitchers used by the Phoenix in the seventh and he took the loss, falling to 1-1 for the year. Lettas allowed three earned runs on one hit and two walks in one-third of an inning. Joe McGillicuddy, twin brother of former HPU pitcher
John McGillicuddy, got the start and allowed two runs on three hits and four walks in three innings of work.
Greene finished 4-6 with a double and a home run for the Panthers. He drove in three runs and scored twice in the win. The top six in the HPU lineup combined to go 11-26 with 11 RBI and 13 runs scored. Lee finished 2-4 with an RBI and two runs scored, Clare went 1-4 with a career-high four RBI and two runs scored and Jackson finished 2-5 with an RBI and two runs scored.
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