Box Score Buies Creek, N.C. – The Fighting Camels clinched their third consecutive Big South regular season championship with a 13-3 win over High Point Thursday night. The Camels are just the second Big South program to ever win three straight regular season titles, joining Coastal Carolina.
With the win, Campbell improves to 31-14 and 26-9 in league play. Campbell extended its program-record conference winning streak to 11 games. High Point drops to 14-29, 12-23 in the Big South.
Campbell pitching was solid again, allowing three runs (or fewer) for the fourth time in the last five games.
Cade Kuehler worked 4.2 innings on the hill and allowed two runs in his start, while
Logan Heintzman picked up the win with 2.1 innings in relief and is now 6-0 on the year.
Cade Boxrucker worked the final two innings and allowed just one hit and no runs.
The Camels struck first with a run in the first on an RBI single from
Zach Neto. Neto had been sidelined since May 8, but picked up right where he left off, with a 3-4 night with two RBI and a walk. His night brought his season average back up to .410.
Tied at 1-1 in the third, Campbell took the lead for good with a four-run inning. Packard supplied the big hit in the frame with a monster two-run home run to right, his ninth of the year. Measured at 413 feet, it was the fourth longest home run hit at home this season.
The Camels slowly added to the lead throughout the next few innings with two in the fifth on a double steal that resulted in an error and two runs, and got one more in each the sixth and seventh.
Campbell added plenty of insurance with four more runs in the eighth, two scoring on wild pitches before
Collin Wolf lifted his sixth home run of the year to left to put the Camels ahead by 10.
Four Camels finished with multi-hit games, led by Neto with three. Of the Camels 13 hits on the night, eight went for extra bases. The heart of the order, Denning-Neto-Packard-Wolf, all tallied two RBIs on the night.
Packard and Wolf brought the Camels season home run total to 62, good for the third most in a single season in program history.
Campbell has now secured the top seed in the Big South Championship next week in Fayetteville, N.C. at Segra Stadium. Tickets to the event can be purchased
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Campbell and High Point will cap the regular season tomorrow with a doubleheader at Jim Perry Stadium beginning at 2 p.m. Each game of the twin-bill will be streamed on ESPN+.