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LEXINGTON, S.C. – The High Point University baseball team takes on No. 3 Longwood on Thursday, May 26, at 3 p.m., in Lexington, S.C., with a spot in the Big South Semifinals on the line.

High Point advanced past No. 6 Winthrop on Wednesday with a 6-2 win over the Eagles in an elimination game.

Junior Andre Scrubb pitched 6-1/3 innings and allowed two earned runs to improve to 8-6 on the season. The right-hander allowed seven hits and five walks and struck out four in the contest.

Senior Dominic Fazio finished the game 2-3 at the plate with a walk, a home run, three RBI and two runs scored. Sophomores Austen Zente, Hunter Lee and Carson Jackson all finished with two hits with both Lee and Zente recording an RBI and a run scored.

Longwood lost to No. 7 Liberty in a winners' bracket contest by a score of 9-3 on Wednesday night. The loss drops the Lancers to 31-26 overall for the season. It is the team's first 30-win season in the Div. I era. Second-team All-Big South selection Alex Lewis is tops on the team with a .353 batting average and 43 RBI while fellow second-team selection Connar Bastaich is hitting .335 with 38 runs scored. First-team
 
High Point took the season series against Longwood, two game to one, at Williard Stadium. The Lancers took the first game, by a score of 4-3 behind a strong performance by Burnette but HPU bounced back with a 7-2 win on Saturday and a series-clinching 2-1 win on Sunday. All three Panther starters on the mound set new career-highs in strikeouts in the three game series.

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