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LEXINGTON, S.C. – The second-seeded High Point University baseball team will take on No. 6 Winthrop in an elimination game in the Big South Baseball Championship on Wednesday, May 25, at 9:30 a.m., in Lexington, S.C.
The Panthers dropped into the losers' bracket after falling to No. 7 Liberty by a score of 6-1 on Tuesday morning. Freshman
Andrew Gottfried took the loss despite allowing just two runs in seven innings.
Gottfried fell to 6-5 in his freshman season after giving up two earned runs on six hits and no walks in seven innings while striking out four. The right-hander allowed just one base runner in his final four innings of work.
Senior
Dominic Fazio and sophomore
Carson Jackson recorded the Panthers' only hits on the day with Fazio finishing 1-2 with two walks and a run scored and Jackson finishing 1-4.
Winthrop lost to No. 3 Longwood in the first round and enter Wednesday's contest at 28-26 on the season. The Eagles are led by a pair of All-Big South second-team selections in outfielder Anthony Paulsen and catcher Roger Gonzalez. Paulsen leads the team with a .361 batting average and 53 runs scored while Gonzalez is hitting .338 with a team-high 24 extra-base hits and 43 RBI.
High Point won the series against the Eagles this season, 2-1, at home. The Panthers won the first two games by scores of 7-2 and 4-2 before dropping the third game, 6-2. Junior
Chris Clare hit .467 (7-15) with two doubles and two runs scored and Fazio hit .455 (5-11) with two doubles and two RBI in the series.
HPU is just 1-1 against Winthrop in the Big South Tournament. The two teams last met in 2009 when the No. 6 ranked Panthers upset the second-ranked Eagles in the second round by a score of 7-4.
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