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Friday, April 30 – at Winthrop (Rock Hill, S.C..) 5 p.m.
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Saturday, May 1 -- at Winthrop (Rock Hill, S.C.), 1 p.m.
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Saturday, May 1 -- at Winthrop (Rock Hill, S.C.), Approximately 4:30 p.m.
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The High Point University baseball team (12-20, 10-14 Big South) heads back on the road for a three-game conference series at Winthrop (11-20, 8-15 Big South) this weekend. The teams will meet Friday (April 30) at 5 p.m. before starting the new month on Saturday (May 1) with a doubleheader at 1 p.m.
 

Matchup History

• High Point and Winthrop have met 63 times since the Panthers joined Division I, with the Eagles holding a large 41-22 lead in the series.
• The last two meetings between the teams happened in the 2019 Big South Tournament, with Winthrop giving High Point both of its losses to send the Purple and White home.
• The Eagles' defense has stifled the Panthers as of late, holding HPU to two or fewer runs in five of the last six meetings, with the lone exception coming in High Point's last win, a 7-4 victory in 2019.

Across the Diamond

• Winthrop is 11-20 on the season and 8-15 in Big South play to sit one spot below High Point in ninth place in the conference standings.
• Just like the Panthers, Winthrop enters the weekend 1-4 in its last five games after losing four in a row to Gardner-Webb last week.
• The Eagles have good plate discipline, entering Friday with 156 bases on balls to rank second in the conference by just four to Radford.
• Winthrop is also a strong fielding team with a .971 fielding percentage to sit second in the Big South.
• Two Eagles bat over .300 on the year, led by Ty Hooks with a .366 average that puts him third in the Big South. Hooks leads Winthrop with 34 hits to be one of four Eagles with 30 hits this season.
• Joey Tepper is the other Winthrop batter over .300, coming into the weekend batting .301.
• Tyler Jones is the top starter for Winthrop and carries a 5.35 ERA into the series.
• Dalton Mims is one of the go-to arms out of the pen for the Eagles with 16 appearances on the season and an ERA of 5.91 in 21.1 innings of work.

Panther Notes

Last Time Out

High Point fell in a midweek matchup against UNCG at home on Tuesday (April 27) in the Panthers' only home game of April. HPU led by one entering the eighth inning but the Spartans put up 10 runs in the frame to take the game 12-3.
 

Home Sweet Home

Tuesday was High Point's only home game in the month of April and the first time a baseball game was played at Williard Stadium since March 28 - 30 days and 11 games apart. It's the longest stretch of days without a home game in HPU's Division I history and the longest stretch of games away from Williard since the 2010 season when the Purple and White ended the year with seven road games and four neutral-site games in the Big South Tournament. The 2010 season also saw a longer streak of true road games as HPU played 12 consecutive games in the opponent's ballpark from March 25 to April 11.
 

Sutton Place

Blake Sutton had a career-high three hits in the final game at Radford on Sunday 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 last 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 20 of his last 25 games. He leads the team with a .343 batting average and .432 on base percentage and is second on HPU in hits (36), RBIs (20), and doubles (8).
 

Going Streaking

Singsank leads the team with a 15-game on-base streak and saw his six-game hitting streak snapped in the second game last 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 four 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 34th-most in the country. He averages 0.41 doubles per game to also sit third in the conference and 31st in the nation. As a team, High Point averages 1.81 doubles per game for the third-best average in the Big South.
 

Going Yard

HPU had two home runs in the win over Radford last 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.
  

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.
 

Magic Johnson

Johnson also had one of the best single-game performances for the Purple and White this year in the midweek game after Pearre's 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 .302 batting average, .405 on base percentage, and a team-best .563 slugging percentage.
 

Double Trouble

The Panthers have turned 21 double plays so far this season, the fourth-most in the Big South.
 

WHIP it Real Good

HPU is third in the Big South in WHIP entering Friday, allowing 1.49 walks and hits each inning pitched. 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 64th-most in the country. Individually, Carr and Johnson have hit three each to tie for the sixth-most in the conference.
 
 
Up Next: High Point plays its final non-conference game of the season on Tuesday (May 4) when fellow Triad school North Carolina A&T visits Williard Stadium for the first time since 2019 for a 6 p.m. matchup.