HIGH POINT, N.C. – Campbell clinched both the weekend series and the top seed in the Big South Tournament with a 16-1 win at High Point Sunday afternoon. The Camels have now won four consecutive Big South regular season titles.
 
The win takes Campbell to 34-15, 18-3 in the league. Campbell is three games up on USC Upstate with three games remaining and holds the head-to-head tiebreaker having swept the Spartans earlier in the season. Eighteen conference wins is one shy of the program record 19 set by the 2013 squad that went 19-5 in the Big South.
 
Campbell's offense exploded for five home runs on the afternoon, led by Drake Pierson hitting his 16^th and 17^th of the season. Jarrod Belbin and Lawson Harrill each went yard as well, going back-to-back in the third inning, and Neto capped the barrage with a three-run shot in the eighth.
 
The Camels now have 24 multi-home run games this season, 17 times hitting three or more, nine times hitting four or more and six times hitting five or more. Campbell sits at 100 total home runs for the season, six shy of the program record (106 in 1985).
 
Trailing 1-0, Belbin's two-run blast put the Camels ahead for good in the third, he and was quickly followed by Harrill's solo homer. Campbell then scored multiple runs in four straight innings, and scored in six straight to grow the lead to 15 runs.
 
The biggest inning of the day was a four-run fifth, that featured four runs on three hits. Connor Denning drove in two with a single to set up a Drake Pierson two-run blast.
 
Five Camels had two hits on the day, with Neto leading the charge with four RBI and Pierson adding three.
 
Campbell pitching allowed a run in the first after a pair of singles, sac bunt and groundout plated a run. That turned out to be it for the Panthers who were stifled the rest of the way by Campbell pitching posting eight straight zeroes on the board. The Panthers did collect five hits on the day, but left nine runners on base in the contest
 
Aaron Rund turned in a strong start, going 4.1 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 2 K. He was relieved by Jonathan Beymer in the fifth who induced a 1-6-3 double play to escape a jam and help keep any more runs off Rund's final line. Beymer earned the win tossing 1.2 scoreless in relief.
 
Campbell now has an opportunity to clinch the Big South outright with just one win during the Radford series beginning next Thursday.
 
Prior to that, the Camels head to Greenville for a midweek matchup with ECU on Tuesday. First pitch at Clark-LeClair stadium is set for 6:30 pm and will be broadcast on ESPN+.