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• High Point fell at home to Wake Forest by a score of 9-2 on Tuesday.
• Sophomore Austen Zente had two hits and scored both the Panthers' runs in the contest.
• HPU sits at 29-18 with seven games left in the regular season.

HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University baseball team dropped a midweek contest to Wake Forest by a score of 9-2 on Tuesday night at Williard Stadium. Sophomore Austen Zente scored twice for the Panthers in the loss.

"We buried ourselves in the first inning and put ourselves against the wall," head coach Craig Cozart said. "Wake Forest is a great club and we allowed them to play relaxed and aggressive. It is tough for us to play catch up sometimes and it didn't happen tonight."

Senior Michael Hennessey took the loss after allowing four earned runs in two-thirds of an inning. The right-hander allowed one hit and walked two, dropping to 3-4 on the season.

Drew Loepprich got the start for Wake Forest and improved to 3-1 on the season after giving up two runs, one earned, on four hits while striking out one in three innings.

The loss drops the Panthers to 29-18 overall while Wake Forest improves to 29-19.

High Point fell into an early 4-0 hole after Wake Forest scored four times in the first inning. The Demon Deacons loaded the bases on a hit batter and two walks ahead of Kevin Conway who cleared the bags with a three-run triple. The WFU left fielder then came around to score on an RBI single by Ben Breazeale.

The Panthers got a run back in the bottom of the frame when Zente led off with a single and came around to score on an RBI groundout by senior Dominic Fazio.

After Wake Forest reopened a four-run lead in the top of the third on Breazeales' second RBI single of the night, High Point answered with a run of its own in the bottom of the frame on an RBI single by redshirt-junior Tim Mansfield. Zente led off the HPU half of the inning with a single and moved to second on an error before scoring on the Mansfield hit.

Wake Forest scored once in the fourth on a sacrifice fly and three times in the sixth on a two-run triple by Stuart Fairchild and a single by Will Craig to go ahead 9-2.

Zente got two of the Panthers' four hits and finished 2-4 with two runs scored. Mansfield and sophomore Spencer Brown got the other two hits for HPU, both singles.

High Point hits the road for the final time in the 2016 regular season this weekend when the team heads to Buies Creek, N.C., to take on Campbell in a three-game weekend series. The weekend kicks off with on Friday, May 13, at 6 p.m.

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