Big South Baseball Summary - May 9
Radford, Charleston Southern, High Point and USC Upstate opened their respective Big South series with wins on Friday.
RADFORD 9, WINTHROP 8 | BOX SCORE
It was Tyler Kehoe's turn to play hero for the Radford baseball program as the Highlanders walked off Big South foe Winthrop, 9-8 in a crucial conference victory inside Sherman Carter Memorial Stadium on Friday evening. The win was an important one for a Radford group that is looking to make its first Big South Tournament since the 2019 campaign. The Highlanders improved to 11-8 in conference play and are now in a three-way tie for third place in the Big South.
CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 8, UNC ASHEVILLE 6 | BOX SCORE
Charleston Southern and UNC Asheville began their weekend series on Friday afternoon with 14 innings of baseball getting played across two games. The Buccaneers had a late rally to win the first 8-6 while the second game was suspended in the sixth with the Bucs leading 16-4. CSU's victory in the first game is their 25th of the season and makes Karl Kuhn the winningest first year Head Coach in program history as he broke his tie with Jason Murray who had 24 in the 2005 season.
HIGH POINT 16, GARDNER-WEBB 5 | BOX SCORE
The High Point University baseball team smashed seven home runs in route to the, 16-5, victory over Gardner-Webb on Friday night. Wade Walton earned his eighth win of the season to improve his record to 8-3 after shoving 7.1 innings tonight as he struck out nine batters. Konni Durschlag hit his fourth leadoff home run to give HPU the early lead in the bottom of the first.
USC UPSTATE 16, PRESBYTERIAN 3 | BOX SCORE
Beginning its final home series of the campaign as it seeks to solidify its seeding in the impending Big South Conference Baseball Championship, USC Upstate baseball used a massive fifth inning to secure a 16-3 series-opening victory over Presbyterian Friday evening at Cleveland S. Harley Park. Plating double-digit runs in an inning for the second time in 2025, Upstate erased an early deficit, building a large advantage behind a 12-run stanza as all nine members of the team's starting nine scored. The Spartans recorded 10 hits and three walks as 16 hitters made their way to the plate, leading to the team's highest-scoring inning of the season and highest-scoring inning since March 2024.