Buies Creek, N.C. – Campbell piled up 18 hits and had its way on the basepaths with 10 stolen bases to avenge an earlier loss and beat High Point 16-8. Campbell has now won nine of its last 11 conference games.
With the win, Campbell stays atop the Big South standings at 19-11, 14-7 in the league. High Point drops to 11-16, 10-11 in Big South play.
Jack Yusko made his first career start on the mound for the Camels. The first inning didn't go quite as he'd hoped with High Point jumping out to a 4-0 lead on a grand slam from Adam Stuart. Yusko settled in and worked a scoreless second.
After chipping away to trail only 4-2 in the fourth, Campbell posted four in the fourth thanks to four hits and a pair of throwing errors by the High Point third baseman.
High Point worked back to tie the game at 7-7 in the sixth after three runs in the top of the frame, but the floodgates opened for the Camel offense in the bottom half. The Camels exploded for seven runs on seven hits, six of those being singles. At one point, five out of six consecutive Campbell batters drove in runs in the inning. If the offense wasn't enough to make for an eventful inning, there were four different plays were reviewed in the inning, two upheld, two overturned.
Campbell added two more for good measure in the eighth and would go on to win it 16-8.
Logan Heintzman tossed 3.2 innings to earn the win and move to 4-0 this season. High Point's Dawson Place was tagged with the loss allowing three runs without recording an out to begin the bottom of the sixth inning.
Zach Neto stayed red-hot and saw his season batting average climb over .400, now at .409. He had another huge night, going 4-5 with three RBI and four stolen bases. Seven total Camels finished with multi-hit games and six stole at least one base.
NOTABLES
Neto started at his fourth different position on the diamond this season, this time at third base. The redshirt-freshman has now posted multi-hit games in 11 of his last 12 games and multiple RBIs in 10 of those 12. Tonight marked the first four-hit game of his career.
Jack Yusko, a redshirt-senior and one of the two longest tenured Camels on the roster made his first start after 62 career relief appearances. Ten different Camels have now started on the mound this season.
Ten stolen bases on the night were the most since also stealing 10 against Quinnipiac on Feb. 25, 2017. Campbell was 10-12 on stolen base attempts in the ballgame.
Campbell's 18 hits and .462 batting average were each the second best this season. Both numbers only trail the marks set during the 28-run outburst at Winthrop two weeks ago.
Cade Boxrucker struck out four batters in the ninth inning thanks to a dropped third strike. It was his first appearance on the mound since April 3 against Winthrop. He allowed a run on a two-out double, but it remained his cleanest inning since throwing one scoreless in his first outing of the year against Liberty on Feb. 20.
UP NEXT
Campbell travels to Clinton, S.C. this weekend for a three-game series against Presbyterian. It'll be all day games at the PC Baseball Complex, with Friday set to begin at 3 p.m. and Saturday's doubleheader scheduled to get underway at 11 a.m. All three games of the series will be streamed on ESPN+.
