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Games #17-19 | High Point (8-8, 0-0 Big South) at Longwood (5-10, 0-0 Big South) | Friday-Sunday, March 16-18, 2018 | Farmville, Va.. | Buddy Bolding Stadium (500) Kevin Burke | Assistant Dir. of Athletic Communications HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY Baseball Contact | Steele Sports Center 1 University Parkway | High Point, N.C. 27268 (o) (336) 841-4638 | (c) (336) 848-6944 BASEBALL [email protected] | HighPointPanthers.com Four Straight Winning Seasons | 35 All-Big South Honorees | Two Big South Players of the Year | One Big South Coach of the Year | Fifteen Draft Picks in the Div. I Era 2018 SCHEDULE (8-8, 0-0) GAMES #17-19 Feb. 16 JAMES MADISON L 3-1 Feb. 18-1 JAMES MADISON L 5-1 Dates .......................Friday-Sunday, Mar. 16-18 Feb. 18-2 JAMES MADISON L 4-3 Site ...............................................Farmville, Va. Feb. 21 at North Carolina A&T W 10-3 Stadium .............Buddy Bolding Stadium (500) Feb. 23 DAYTON W 12-2 Feb. 24-1 DAYTON W 8-7 Feb. 24-2 DAYTON W 4-3 Series History ..................High Point leads 12-7 Feb. 27 at No. 13 North Carolina L 10-0 HIGH POINT PANTHERS Last Meeting ...............L 18-13, 5/26/16 (BSCT) LONGWOOD LANCERS 8-8 5-10 Mar. 3-1 at William & Mary L 4-3 (12) Mar. 3-2 at William & Mary W 17-3 PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS Mar. 4 at William & Mary L 13-2 HPU W-L ERA IP BB SO LONGWOOD W-L ERA IP BB SO Mar. 6 CHARLOTTE PPD Game 1: LHP Jordan Sergent, Sr. 1-0 4.02 15.2 6 11 vs. LHP Steven Farkas, Jr. 0-3 4.79 20.2 9 31 Mar. 9 vs. Ohio State# L 8-6 Game 2: RHP Andrew Gottfried, Jr. 1-2 4.34 18.2 6 28 vs. RHP Cody Boydstun, Jr. 1-2 5.55 24.1 8 22 at No. 21 Coastal Carolina# W 8-5 Game 3: LHP Cooper Jeffers, Jr. 1-0 4.50 8.0 7 8 vs. TBA Mar. 10 vs. Ohio State# W 8-4 Mar. 11 at No. 21 Coastal Carolina# W 3-2 INSIDE THE WEEKEND PROBABLE PITCHERS Mar. 14 OHIO L 11-7 Mar. 16 at Longwood* 4 p.m. HPU vs Longwood: The Panthers open up conference play • Friday: High Point goes with a different weekend rotation for Mar. 17 at Longwood* 4 p.m. with a three-game series against Longwood in Farmville, Va. the first time this season with southpaw Jordan Sergent earning Mar. 18 at Longwood* 2 p.m. This is the third straight season in which High Point has opened the Friday night nod. In his last two starts, Sergent has allowed Mar. 21 at NC Central 6 p.m. up the Big South slate away from Williard Stadium. Both teams only four earned runs in 11 innings (3.27 ERA) and is coming off Mar. 23 RADFORD* (BSN) 4 p.m. dropped mid-week contests entering this weekend set. a career high six strikeouts last Friday against Ohio State. Mar. 24 RADFORD* (BSN) 2 p.m. Mar. 25 RADFORD* (BSN) 1 p.m. History vs. Longwood: HPU is 12-7 all-time against the The Lancers will counter with Steven Farkas, who is coming Mar. 27 at UNCG (ESPN3) 6 p.m. Lancers, but are making their first trek to Farmville since 2015. off his best outing of the season. Last Friday against Iona, the Mar. 29 WINTHROP* (BSN) 6 p.m. High Point is 7-1 all-time at Buddy Bolding Stadium, taking two southpaw went six scoreless and struck out 12 in a no-decision. Mar. 30 WINTHROP* (BSN) 6 p.m. of three in 2015 and sweeping the series in 2014. Mar. 31 WINTHROP* (BSN) 1 p.m. • Saturday: Senior Andrew Gottfried bumps up to the Saturday Apr. 3 ELON (BSN) 6 p.m. The Panthers and Lancers did not meet last season and split start in search of his second straight win. Last Saturday against Apr. 6 at Charleston Southern* 6 p.m. four games against each other in 2016. HPU won two of three Ohio State, Gottfried struck out the last five hitters he faced in Apr. 7 at Charleston Southern* (BSN) 3 p.m. in the regular season but LU claimed a game in the conference his five-inning outing, striking out six overall in the 8-4 triumph. Apr. 8 at Charleston Southern* (BSN) 2 p.m. tournament, 18-13. High Point has not dropped a series to Apr. 10 UNCG (BSN) 6 p.m. Longwood since losing two of three in 2013. Cody Boydstun gets the ball for the Lancers on Saturday after a Apr. 13 at Gardner-Webb* (BSN) 6 p.m. complete game performance against Iona last week. In his first Apr. 14 at Gardner-Webb* (BSN) 2 p.m. The Lancers: Longwood comes in with a 5-10 mark on the win of the year, Boydstun limited Iona to two runs on three his Apr. 15 at Gardner-Webb* (BSN) 2 p.m. Apr. 17 at Charlotte (CUSA-TV) 6 p.m. campaign and have won a pair of home weekend series against with six strikeouts in an 11-2 victory. Apr. 20 LIBERTY* (BSN) 6 p.m. Niagara and Iona. The Lancers were projected to finish 10th in Apr. 21 LIBERTY* (BSN) 1 p.m. the Big South preseason poll. • Sunday: Junior Cooper Jeffers gets his first start of the year Apr. 22 LIBERTY* (BSN) 1 p.m. and 10th of his career following an award-winning relief Apr. 24 at Elon 6 p.m. Longwood has struggled on the offensive end, ranking 9th in appearance last week. Jeffers was named the Big South Relief Apr. 25 NORTH CAROLINA A&T (BSN) 6 p.m. the league in average (.224) and runs per game (3.6) and last Pitcher of the Week after throwing 4.1 scoreless innings in the in hits (109). Additionally, LU is last in the league in team ERA comeback win over No. 21 Coastal Carolina on Sunday. May 1 WAKE FOREST (BSN) 6 p.m. May 4 at Campbell* (ESPN3) 7 p.m. (7.41). However, the Lancers pitching staff has found strikeouts May 5 at Campbell* (BSN) 3 p.m. to be their forte, ranking 19th in the NCAA in K/9 (10.4) The Lancers have yet to announce a starter for Sunday. May 6 at Campbell* (BSN) 2 p.m. May 11 at UNC Asheville* (BSN) 6 p.m. QUICK HITTERS May 12 at UNC Asheville* (BSN) 3 p.m. May 13 at UNC Asheville* (BSN) 1 p.m. BROWN: Picked up his first hit of the season on 3/3 against William & Mary / Two-time Millis Scholar-Athlete May 15 at Wake Forest (ACCNE) 6 p.m. DUNBAR: Hit .435 in the season’s first seven games / Has drawn at least one walk in the last seven games May 17 PRESBYTERIAN* (BSN) 6 p.m. HOLT: Posted back-to-back multi-hit games in doubleheader vs Dayton (2/24), up to four multi-hit games this season May 18 PRESBYTERIAN* (BSN) 6 p.m. JACKSON: Consecutive three-hit games vs CCU (3/9) and OSU (3/10), going 6-for-7 (.857), 4 R, 2 RBI May 19 PRESBYTERIAN* (BSN) 1 p.m. JOHNSON: Blasted his first homer of the season (second career) on Saturday against Ohio State May 22-26 Big South Tournament% LEE: Currently riding an eight-game hitting streak (12-for-33, .364, 2 2B, 3B, 9 R, 10 RBI) / Three game-winning RBI’s MILLWEE: Accrued 11 RBI in a three-game stretch from Feb. 21-24 / Leads team in hitting at .352 All Times EST SERGENT: Has picked up three RBI’s in two of his last five games including Wednesday vs Ohio (2-4, HR, R, 3 RBI) * Big South game SCHUNK: Tied career high with four hits on Friday vs OSU / Has hit safely in 10 of his last 13 games after 0-for-8 start to year # Environmental Staffing Chanticleer Classic (at Conway, S.C.) WELLS: Named Big South Freshman of the Week after going 7-for-17 (.412) with a homer, two runs scored, and four RBI % Played at Lynchburg, Va. ZENTE: Tied his career high with four RBI in on March 3 against William & Mary (3-for-5, 2 R, 4 RBI) HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY 2018 Baseball Game Notes The Last One: High Point dropped its mid-week contest to Ohio, Let’s Play Two!: Last Friday’s twin-bill marked the fourth straight Quick Facts 11-7, on a windy Wednesday afternoon. The Bobcats launched weekend High Point played a doubleheader to open its season. five home runs and used a pair of five-run innings to pick up the HPU was swept in a double-dip by JMU, took both games from High Point University victory. Junior JJ Woodard and senior Jordan Sergent blasted Dayton, and has split the last two at William & Mary and against Location .................................................................... High Point, N.C. their first home runs of the year. Ohio State/Coastal. Founded .....................................................................................1924 Enrollment ................................................................................5,000 Nickname .............................................................................Panthers For Openers: HPU looks to get back to its winning ways in I’ll Take This Thank You: The Panthers stole one base on Colors ......................................................................Purple and White conference play, where the Panthers have posted five straight Wednesday, increasing their season-long total to 22, the second- Conference .....................................................Big South (NCAA Div. I) campaigns above .500. Last season, High Point dropped two of most in the league.