HPU baseball earns split
May 5—ROCK HILL, S.C. — After nearly a combined eight hours of play on Saturday, the High Point University baseball team came away with a split in a doubleheader at Winthrop University.
HPU lost the first game on a walk-off homer in 10 innings, 11-10, before rebounding with an offensive explosion in game two with a 19-15 victory. Grey Lyttle bookended the day on the mound for the Panthers, starting on the bump in the first game of the day and going just two innings before entering in relief in the second game to get the final 10 outs for his first save of the season.
Lyttle recorded 10 strikeouts in the 10 outs (two of the strikeouts reached on a wild pitch and an error) to become the first Panther with 10 strikeouts in an outing since Harrison Smith recorded 11 punchouts against Longwood in 2019.
Three different Panthers tallied four hits over the two games, and two players ended the day with five RBIs. Cole Singsank was the only one in both categories as he had three hits and four RBIs in game one, followed by one hit and one run driven in for the second game. Brady Pearre and Peyton Carr were the other two with four hits as Pearre had his second four-hit performance of the season in game two while Carr added three hits, including one double, in the game as well. Travis Holt was the other Panther with five RBIs on the day and drove in all five in the second game. Adam Stuart also had a big game in the RBI department in the second game with four runs driven in for his second four-RBI game this season. Holt and Pearre also each legged out a triple in the nightcap.
