HIGH POINT RALLIES PAST WINTHROP, 7‑3

HIGH POINT, N.C. (Interstat) — Ty Brachbill pitched a complete game as High Point defeated Winthrop 7-3 in a Big South baseball game Saturday evening at George S. Erath Field at Coy O. Williard Baseball Stadium.

The Panthers, now 33-17, fell behind 3-0 after the top of the second inning but answered with five runs in the third. Jake McCarter drove in two runs and SeoJun Oh homered in the seventh to extend the lead. Oh finished 1 for 4 with a home run and two RBIs. Brachbill allowed four hits and two earned runs with five strikeouts over nine innings.

High Point collected 11 hits. Willie Ponce went 3 for 5 and Caleb Hammond added two hits and an RBI. For Winthrop (30-20), Chazz Grossington went 2 for 3 with an RBI. Walker Brodt started and allowed no hits but two earned runs over 5 1/3 innings, striking out two.

Winthrop struck first on a sacrifice fly and an RBI groundout. The Eagles regained a run in the fourth on Grossington’s single. However, High Point put the game away with Oh’s two-run homer in the seventh.