Big South Baseball Summary - April 6
High Point, UNC Asheville and Longwood won on Sunday to avoid series sweeps.
HIGH POINT 9, USC UPSTATE 8 | BOX SCORE
Jackson Melton smoked a walk-off home run as the High Point University baseball team defeated USC Upstate, 9-8, on Sunday afternoon. Adam Grintz earned the win this afternoon improving his record to 4-0 after coming in relief and pithing 2.0 innings. Dalton Olsovsky came up huge for HPU allowing them to go to work on offense and slowly catch the Spartans. Olsovsky threw 2.0 innings, allowing just one hit and striking out three batters.
UNC ASHEVILLE 4, WINTHROP 3 | BOX SCORE
UNC Asheville Baseball hung on for a 4-3 victory over Winthrop in the series finale on Sunday. Winthrop took a 1-0 lead in the third, before Asheville tied the game in the top of the fourth on Blaize Johnson's fourth homer of the season. Asheville would take a 3-1 lead in the fifth, with the inning starting with a walk by Jake Minarik who later advanced to third on a single to left by Canon Pierce. Minarik would score on a groundout by Coleman McGinnis, before Jake Pereira started the train right back up with a two-out triple to right center. Corbin Lanowitz would bring him home with a single to left to plate Asheville's second run in the inning. Winthrop would get one run back in the home half to make it a 3-2 game, before Asheville would add an insurance run in the seventh when Lanowitz singled home Pierce. Winthrop would get one run back in the home half of the eighth, before Ryland Howell would slam the door on the game leaving two runners on base in the bottom of the ninth.
LONGWOOD 8, PRESBYTERIAN 4 | BOX SCORE
Longwood baseball staved off a sweep and picked up an important road win at Presbyterian on Sunday afternoon. Bentley Yeatts had a career day, driving in a career best three runs to lead the charge on offense. But it was a complete group effort, as five different Lancers (9-23, 4-5 Big South) scored, six Lancers had a hit, and five Lancers recorded an RBI on the day. Meanwhile, the Longwood pitching staff limited Presbyterian (16-17, 8-4 Big South) to four runs on seven hits behind a solid start from Ried Dittner. The Lancer staff struck out 10.