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• Senior Hunter Lee extended his hitting streak to 14 games with a solo home run and tied a career high with four RBI's.
• Senior Carson Jackson picked up a pair of hits and drove in three, including a solo home run.
• Junior Andrew Gottfried continued his sterling performance on the mound, tossing five scoreless frames to earn his third win of the year.
 
HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University baseball team used a relentless offensive attack, aided by seven extra-base hits, to blow past Radford, 15-6, completing the sweep of a doubleheader on Friday evening at Williard Stadium. HPU will look for the series sweep on Sunday.
 
"Doubleheaders are a grind, but our guys competed for 18 innings today," head coach Craig Cozart said. "I was very happy with the energy level. We played great defense all day and offensively, we really got things going. I'm proud of the guys effort, but there's still work to be done on Sunday."
 
High Point (12-10, 4-1) was aggressive all night, scoring in six of its eight at-bats and pounding out 15 runs, the second-most in a game this season. The 14 hits signified the third-most in a contest this year.

"We're getting a good offensive rhythm," Cozart said. "Our guys are working hard and the experienced guys in our lineup have stayed the course with their approach and they're getting rewarded for it now."
 
A Radford (8-13, 1-4) error with two outs in the first allowed senior Austen Zente to race home from third, giving HPU an early 1-0 edge. Junior JJ Woodard led off the second inning with a solo dinger, his second home run of his career. The Panthers ultimately loaded the bases in the frame and were able to scratch across another tally on a sacrifice fly from senior Hunter Lee.
 
Leading 3-0, the Purple & White blew the game open with four runs in the last of the fourth. Lee picked up his second RBI of the day with a bases loaded walk and was followed two batters later by senior Carson Jackson, who laced a two-run double into the left field corner to make it 6-0. Lee would score on a wild pitch to push the lead to 7-0.
 
Lee wasn't done, extending his hitting streak to 14 games in emphatic fashion by crushing a solo homer in the last of the sixth inning. Jackson followed two batters later with a titanic moonshot to left for his second round-tripper of the year.

"We had an approach of what we were going to do today and (hitting) coach (Jason) Laws prepared the hitters really well," Lee said. "We rode the momentum from the first game and that's when this game is fun. When you're struggling, it makes days like this a lot more sweeter."
 
Meanwhile, junior Andrew Gottfried was mowing down the Highlanders on the hill. In his first start since his career-long outing last week, Gottfried (3-2) pitched five scoreless frames and yielded just three hits. The righthander notched six strikeouts, punching out four of the first seven hitters he faced.
 
After Radford cut the lead to 9-2 in the top half of the seventh, the Panthers countered with their second four-run inning of the game. The first four hitters in the frame reached, culminating in an RBI single from Zente to make it 11-2. Consecutive run-scoring groundouts from freshman Travis Holt and Lee extended the advantage to 13-2.
 
High Point rounded out its scoring with two more in the eighth on a sac fly from junior Conner Dunbar and an RBI groundout from Zente. The Highlanders plated four in the top of the ninth to account for the final margin.
 
Lee tied his career high with four RBI's in addition to extending his hitting streak. Jackson stroked a pair of extra-base knocks and drove in three to push his hit streak to seven games. Dunbar joined in the party by going 3-for-5 with three runs scored and an RBI while Zente and seniors Spencer Brown and Blake Schunk added two hits each.
 
After an off day tomorrow due to expected inclement weather, the Panthers and Highlanders wrap up the three-game set on Sunday with first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m.
 
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