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Tuesday, April 27 -- vs. UNCG (Williard Stadium, High Point, N.C.), 6 p.m.
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The High Point University baseball team (12-19, 10-14 Big South) returns home for its first and only home game of April with a midweek matchup against fellow Triad-foe UNCG (19-19, 6-12 SoCon) on Tuesday (April 27).
 

Matchup History

• Tuesday will be the 36th meeting between High Point and UNCG in HPU's Division I history, with the Spartans holding a 23-12 lead in the series.
• The teams met for a weekend series in February this season at Truist Point in downtown High Point with UNCG taking two of the three.
• Those were the first neutral-site games in the series history, with UNCG leading 11-5 in Greensboro and 10-6 at games played in High Point.

Across the Diamond

• UNCG is .500 on the season with a 19-19 record and a 6-12 mark in SoCon play.
• Three of those six wins came this past weekend in a sweep of The Citadel as the Spartans enter Tuesday on a four-game winning streak and winners of their last two non-conference games.
• UNCG has some speed in its lineup and ranks in the top 40 in the country in triples and stolen bases. The Spartans have hit 11 triples this season for 22nd in the country and have swiped 50 bags to sit 38th nationally.
• UNCG also hits a lot of sacrifice flies, currently with 21 on the season for 19th in the country.
• Two Spartans bat over .300 on the year, led by Corey Rosier's average of .353. He has 55 hits so far this season, putting him 17th in the country, and he's 14th in the nation with 41 runs scored.
• Greg Hardison is the other UNCG batter hitting over .300 in 2021 with a .304 batting average entering Tuesday with a team-high nine doubles.
• Tuesday's projected starter Jacob Curry has started six games this season and has a 4.89 ERA with 21 earned runs allowed over 38.2 innings of work.
• Jack Voigt leads the team with 21 appearances - the sixth-most in the country - and has a 4.57 ERA with 11 runs conceded in 21.2 innings pitched.

 

Panther Notes

Last Time Out

High Point dropped a three-game series with Radford this weekend, splitting a doubleheader on Friday (April 23) before falling in the series finale on Sunday (April 25). Radford took the first game of the series 11-3 before the Panthers countered with a 7-5 victory in the nightcap. The Highlanders took the series two days later in the rubber match, winning 4-3.
 

Sutton Place

Blake Sutton had a career-high three hits in the final game at Radford to be the only Panther with multiple hits in the game. Sutton also had two hits in the win on Friday to make it three times he's had back-to-back multiple-hit games.
 

Grand Salami Time

Adam Stuart hit a grand slam in the midweek matchup against Campbell last Tuesday (April 20) for the first slam that HPU has hit since the 2018 season when Austen Zente hit one in a loss to Wake Forest on May 15, 2018.
 

Analytically Speaking

Starting pitcher Grey Lyttle and left fielder Joe Johnson were both named in the top 100 draft-eligible pitchers and hitters, respectively, by D1 Baseball according to their analytic process last week. Lyttle was ranked as the 51st-best pitcher in the rankings while Johnson checked in at 69th in the hitting ranks.
 

Not so Lyttle

Lyttle finds himself third in the Big South and 90th in the country in total strikeouts after 10 starts with 63 on the season, including a season-high nine against Asheville. Lyttle is averaging 9.9 strikeouts per nine innings this season, which is the fourth-best in the Big South.
 

A Trio in Double Digits

With Cole Singsank picking up his fifth three-hit game of the season against Campbell on Tuesday, he became the third Panther this season to have double-digit games with multiple hits. Johnson leads the team with 12 such games while Singsank and Peyton Carr are tied with 11 each. Singsank's five games of three hits or more are the most of any Panther this season.
 

Hopping on the Cole Train

After going hitless in his first five games of the season, Singsank has played his way into the starting lineup and has recorded a hit in 19 of his last 24 games. He leads the team with a .356 batting average and .438 on base percentage and is second on HPU in hits (35), RBIs (19), and doubles (8).
 

Going Streaking

Singsank leads the team with a 14-game on-base streak and saw his six-game hitting streak snapped in the second game on Friday. Sam Zayicek has the second-longest active on-base streak for the Purple and White at nine games and has hit safely in his last seven for the only active hitting streak of at least three games.
 

Russell Up Some Feathers

Ryan Russell led the Panthers offensively in their first game against Longwood, going yard twice in the game and chipping in a double to finish with three hits and as many RBIs. It was the third time this season that a Panther has hit multiple home runs in the same game, the first time three players have had multiple home runs in the same game since the 2018 season.
 

2⁹

In the first game of the series with Longwood, the Panthers hit nine doubles in the 12-2 win, matching the program record from the 2020 season opener against Lafayette. Carr, Singsank, and Stuart all had two doubles in the game, and Russell, Sutton, and Zayicek each had one.
 

Seeing Double

Johnson has hit 13 doubles this season, the third-most in the Big South by one and the 29th-most in the country. He averages 0.42 doubles per game to sit third in the conference and 25th in the nation. As a team, High Point averages 1.77 doubles per game for the third-best average in the Big South.
 

Going Yard

HPU had two home runs in the win over Radford on the weekend for the Panthers' fifth multi-home run game of the season, a situation High Point is 4-1 in. Brady Pearre and Johnson both left the park in the sixth inning, with Johnson's being his team-leading sixth long ball of the year.
 

Magic Johnson

Johnson had one of the best single-game performances for the Purple and White this year on April 6 against Elon. The graduate student from Benson, N.C. had two doubles, one RBI, and a home run in four at bats against the Phoenix. Johnson is one of HPU's leaders offensively with a .306 batting average, .412 on base percentage, and a team-best .579 slugging percentage.
 

Yo Pearre, You Wanna Come Out Here?

Pearre had one of the Panthers' top performances this season in the first game at Charleston Southern to start April, going 4-4 with two walks. The four hits are a career-high and he also drove in two runs in the game, including his third home run of the season, and came around to score three times in the game.
 

Double Trouble

The Panthers have turned 20 double plays so far this season, the fifth-most in the Big South.
 

WHIP it Real Good

HPU is third in the Big South in WHIP entering Tuesday, allowing 1.47 walks and hits each inning pitched, second only to USC Upstate. Lyttle continues to lead the Panthers in WHIP with a mark of 1.25, putting him in the top five in the conference.
 

Making the Sacrifice

High Point has hit 17 sacrifice flies this season, the fourth-most in the Big South and 56th-most in the country. Individually, Carr and Johnson have hit three each to tie for the sixth-most in the conference.
 
 
Up Next: The Panthers head back on the road this weekend to with a three-game series at Winthrop. The teams will play Friday (April 30) at 5 p.m. before starting a doubleheader at 1 p.m. on Saturday (May 1).