HIGH POINT, N.C. – A lack of control plagued Campbell pitchers all night during the 9-4 loss to High Point. A platoon of eight pitchers issued a combined 10 walks and hit three batters on a rainy night in High Point.
 
With the loss Campbell falls to 10-8 and is now 5-5 in Big South play. High Point moves to 8-9 overall and jumps the Camels in the league standings, now 6-5.
 
Cade Boxrucker struggled early on the mound and allowed two runs in the bottom of the first. He allowed three hits and issued three walks in the frame, but limited the damage and escaped the inning by leaving the bases loaded.
 
After allowing another hit and two more walks, Ty Cummings was called in early from bullpen with the bases loaded and two outs. Cummings induced a fly ball to center to end the threat and again leave the bases loaded.
 
Campbell quickly took advantage of those runners left on and tied the game on one swing from Connor Denning in the third. His team-leading sixth home run of the season was an opposite field two-run shot to tie the game at 2-2.
 
Halstead gave the Camels their first lead of the night with an RBI single to center in the sixth. That marked Halstead's first career hit and RBI.
 
Campbell was unable to escape the jam in the bottom of the sixth. With two on and nobody out the Camels turned to Fred Sisco to face Joe Johnson. Johnson won the battle and took the first pitch he saw deep to right for a three-run homer to vault the Panthers into the lead. They would add one more on an RBI triple to right to extend the lead to 6-3.
 
The Camels got one back on a seeing-eye single from Spencer Packard in the seventh to plate Arias and cut the score to 6-4. The single gave Packard his 21^st RBI on the season, tying him for the team high with Matthew Christian.
 
High Point wasted no time getting that run back, taking the first pitch of the bottom of the seventh out to left to push the lead back to three.
 
The control issues came to a head for Campbell in the bottom of the eighth, where three walks and two hit batters led to High Point getting a pair of runs on no hits in the inning. Campbell was unable to draw any closer in the ninth and fell by the score of 9-4.
 
Bryce Arnold had a big day at the plate, recording the first three-hit game of his young career. His fourth multi-hit game of the year brings his batting average up to .378.
 
Campbell wraps up its seven-game road trip this weekend with a three-game series at Longwood Friday and Saturday. Information about how to follow those games will be available later in the week.