SERIES INFO
Thursday, May 20 -- at Campbell (Buies Creek, N.C.), 5 p.m.
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Friday, May 21 -- at Campbell (Buies Creek, N.C.), 2 p.m.
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Friday, May 21 -- at Campbell (Buies Creek, N.C.), Approximately 5:30 p.m.
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The High Point University baseball team (14-28, 12-22 Big South) ends its regular season with a three-game series at Campbell (30-14, 25-9 Big South) this week. The teams open the series on Thursday (May 20) at 5 p.m. before closing out the season with a doubleheader on Friday (May 21) that starts at 2 p.m.
 
Matchup History

• High Point and Campbell have played each other 43 times in HPU's Division I history, with the Fighting Camels holding a 27-16 advantage.
• The teams split two midweek games earlier this season, with both teams winning at home.
• HPU won 9-4 back in March while Campbell got the better of the Purple and White, 16-8, in Buies Creek last month.
• The Fighting Camels are successful against High Point when playing at home, entering Thursday 12-6 against the Panthers in Jim Perry Stadium.

Across the Diamond

• Campbell is 30-14 on the year and 25-9 in Big South action to sit atop the conference standings.
• The Fighting Camels are entering Thursday on a seven-game winning streak after sweeping last week's conference leaders in USC Upstate.
• No team has been hit by a pitch more than Campbell as CU has been plunked 110 times this season for the most in the country.
• The Fighting Camels are also one of the best hitting teams in the country and are one of just 23 teams batting .300 or better as a squad.
• Their batting average of .308 currently ranks 11th in the country while Campbell's .518 slugging percentage is sixth in the nation.
• CU averages 8.8 runs per game, the fourth-best average in all of Division I.
• Five Camels bat over .300, led by Zach Neto's average of .400 to sit 18th in the country.
• Spencer Packard joins him in the top-50 of the country in batting average with a .378 mark.
• Connor Denning and Matthew Christian also hit over .350 at .357 and .356, respectively, putting the quartet 1-4 in the Big South batting average standings.
• Waldy Arias leads the nation in times being hit by a pitch with 26 to average 0.60 times being hit by a pitch per game.
• Thomas Harrington leads Campbell's rotation with a 3.10 ERA in 61.0 innings of work.
• Ryan Chasse is right behind him with an ERA of 3.58 in 65.1 IP and leads the team with 68 strikeouts.
• Logan Heintzman is one of Campbell's lead bullpen arms with a 5-0 record and 2.08 ERA in 14 appearances.

 
Panther Notes
Last Time Out
High Point was swept in its final home weekend of the season, losing all three to Presbyterian College. The middle game of the series needed extra innings before PC pulled away for a 13-11 victory. Freshman David Keith picked up a quality start in the final game of the series and totaled 10 strikeouts in the six innings with just three runs allowed.
 
STRIKKKKKKKKKKE THREE
Keith's performance was the second 10-strikeout outing an HPU pitcher has had this season after Grey Lyttle notched 10 Ks in a save at Winthrop. It's the first time since the 2017 Big South Tournament that High Point has had two separate 10-strikeout performances in the same season when Matt Hodges (10) and Rion Murrah (11) did so in back-to-back games.
 
Carr Jacking
Peyton Carr hit two homers in the series to bring his season total up to seven, the most on the Panthers. Carr had a big weekend in general against the Blue Hose, picking up at least two hits in each game, including three in the middle game of the series, where he also scored three runs, matching his career-highs in both categories. Carr owns the longest hitting streak for the Purple and White this season at 11 games - the only player with a double-digit hitting streak at any point this season.
 
Finally Getting Their First
Four Panthers hit their first home run of the season against Upstate and three of the four did it on Friday, with Blake Sutton, Travis Holt, and Cameron Irvine all leaving the park in the series opener. For Sutton and Irvine, it was their first career home runs as well. Jackson Melton followed suit in the middle game of the series, launching a no-doubter over the creek and Greenway in left. Justin Ebert followed suit in the Presbyterian series with a pinch-hit homer in the 10th for his first career longball.
 
Tic Tac Toe, Three in a Row
Not only did Holt homer in the series opener, he also hit one in the other two games of the weekend with the Spartans to be the first HPU player to go yard in three consecutive games since Blake Schunk did so in 2018. He also became the first member of the Purple and White to leave the park in every game of a three-game series since Mark Shorey hit one in each game of a weekend series against Radford back in 2006.
 
A Quintuple of Twin Killings
High Point turned five double plays in the final game of the series against Upstate, matching the program record for double plays in a single game. The Panthers ended the first, second, fourth, seventh, and ninth innings by turning two. High Point has only turned five DPs in a game once before, coming in a 7-4 victory at Presbyterian on May 14, 2010. The Purple and White have now turned 32 double plays on the season to sit fourth in the Big South while their average of 0.76 per game ranks fourth in the conference and 66th in the country.
 
Thank You Seniors!
High Point recognized its seven-player graduating class before the series opener against Upstate began, as part of a tradition of having Senior Night during graduation weekend. The senior class includes graduate students Chris Apecechea, Joe Johnson, and Grey Lyttle, redshirt senior Ryan Russell, and redshirt juniors Nick Hernandez, Travis Holt, and Trevor Omahen.
 
You Complete Me
Freshman Teddy Merritt went the distance against Winthrop in the series opener, throwing High Point's first complete game since Muhammed Eid threw one in the 2019 Big South Tournament and the sixth complete game from a Big South pitcher this season. Merritt only allowed five hits and two unearned runs for the first HPU complete game without an earned run since the last complete game shutout that Conor Lourey had in the 2015 Big South Tournament. 
 
Start Me Up
Merritt was rewarded for his efforts with the Starting Pitcher of the Week honor from the Big South, High Point's second Starting Pitcher of the Week award this season and the first freshman to be named Starting Pitcher of the Week this year.
 
The Alpha and the Omega
Lyttle began and ended the doubleheader day in Rock Hill on May Day on the mound for the Panthers as he started game one and was called on to close out game two, to become the only pitcher in the country to start game one of a doubleheader and close the second game this season.
 
Ring 'Em Up
Lyttle came in for the final 10 outs of the game and recorded 10 strikeouts in that span, with two reaching on a dropped third strike, for the first 10-strikeout performance the Purple and White have had since Harrison Smith threw 11 in a start in the 2019 season. Lyttle's also just one of two pitchers this season to match the number of outs with strikeouts in a multi-inning relief appearance as USC Upstate's Kevin Davis tallied eight strikeouts in as many outs against Toledo on Feb. 21.
 
A Sigh of Relief
The Panthers took home two weekly honors from the Big South after the Winthrop weekend as Lyttle shared the Relief Pitcher of the Week award for his outing against the Eagles. This is the first time since the opening week of the 2020 season that HPU has had multiple award winners in the same week.
 
Climbing the Ranks
Lyttle picked up two strikeouts against Presbyterian, bringing his career total up to 222 - the seventh most in school history and just the fifth pitcher in HPU's Division I era to reach the 200-strikeout mark. He averages 10.12 strikeouts per nine innings, putting him third in the category in HPU's history among pitchers with at least 100 innings pitched.
 
A Full Day at the Ballpark
May 1 was a long day of baseball for High Point and Winthrop as both games lasted longer than three hours and 45 minutes and had a combined game total of seven hours and 56 minutes and was the first extra-inning game of the season for the Panthers. The second game lasted four hours and eight minutes and was HPU's first four-hour game since a loss to Liberty in 2018 that lasted 4:17. Only one other doubleheader in all of college baseball this season has lasted longer than 7:56 of game time as Western Carolina and Wofford played for eight hours and 11 minutes after game lengths of 3:45 and 4:26.
 
Going on Strike(s)
High Point totaled 16 strikeouts as a pitching staff in the second game of the doubleheader at Winthrop for the most all season and most since throwing 16 Ks against North Carolina Central in 2019. It's just the fifth time the Purple and White have totaled 16 strikeouts in a game in their Division I history and finished one away from matching the D1 program record of 17 set at Winthrop in 2006.
 
Hopping on the Cole Train
Cole Singsank had a big week at Winthrop, totaling eight hits over the weekend, including a career-best four hits in the first game of the series. 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 28 of his last 35 games, including 16 of the last 19. He leads the team with a .345 batting average and .434 on base percentage, is tied for the team lead with 50 hits, and is second in RBIs (29), and doubles (11).
 
Doing an AB Workout
High Point was credited with 43 at bats in the third game of the series with the Eagles for the most all season at the time and most since recording as many in the 2019 Big South Tournament against Presbyterian. After having 42 at bats in the series-opening win, it's the first time the Purple and White have had more than 40 at bats in multiple games of a weekend series since doing it in all three games in a sweep of Radford during the 2013 season (42-43-41).
 
19s Wild
The Panthers scored 19 runs in the final game at Winthrop for just the sixth time in its Division I history and the first time since putting up a record-tying 25 runs against North Carolina A&T in 2014. HPU also recorded 19 hits in the game to mark the 18th time this season reaching double digits in the hit column and the third game with 15 or more. The 19 hits are the most since picking up as many in last year's season-opener with Lafayette.
 
Jumbo Combo
High Point and Winthrop combined for 34 runs in the final game, tied for the fourth-most combined runs in a game in HPU's D1 history and the most since the Panthers and Radford totaled 35 in an 18-17 loss to the Highlanders in April of 2010. The teams combined for 55 runs total in the two games on May 1 for the second-most runs in one day of baseball this season after Dayton and Xavier put up a total of 65 runs in a doubleheader on April 3.
 
Runs for Days
The Purple and White scored a total of 40 runs against the Eagles, which also dates back to 2010 as the most runs High Point has scored in a three-game conference series since putting up 41 on Charleston Southern in the final weekend of the regular season that year.
 
2x3
Holt and Pearre each legged out a triple in the second game of the doubleheader at Winthrop to make it just the 16th game in High Point's 1,173 Division I games that the Purple and White ended the day with multiple triples and the first since the Panthers hit three against Ohio State in 2018.
 
Home Sweet Home
On April 27 against UNCG, High Point played its only home game in the month of April and was the first time a baseball game was played at Williard Stadium since March 28 - 30 days and 11 games apart. It was 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.
 
Grand Salami Time
Adam Stuart hit a grand slam in the midweek matchup against Campbell on 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
Lyttle and Joe Johnson were both named in the top 100 draft-eligible pitchers and hitters, respectively, by D1 Baseball according to their analytic process in April. Lyttle was ranked as the 51st-best pitcher in the rankings while Johnson checked in at 69th in the hitting ranks.
  
Seeing Double
Johnson has hit 14 doubles this season, the fifth-most in the Big South by three. As a team, High Point averages 1.74 doubles per game for the third-best average in the Big South.
 
Five in Double Digits
With Brady Pearre picking up his fifth game of at least three hits with a trio at Longwood last Tuesday, High Point has five players with double-digit multi-hit games. Carr leads the way with 16 such games, followed by Johnson with 15, Singsank with 14, and Pearre and Sutton with 11. Singsank's seven games of three hits or more are the most of any Panther this season.