High Point Baseball Cruises Past East Carolina in Front of Record Crowd

HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University baseball team cruised to a 10-2 win over East Carolina in front of a Williard Stadium-record crowd of 890 fans on Tuesday night. Junior Jared Avidon pitched seven solid innings to earn his first win of the season and Willie Medina, Ryan Retz, Ryne Rush and Mike Miedzianowski all had multiple hits in the game.

“This was a tremendous team effort,” said head coach Craig Cozart. “We were outstanding from the start offensively and Jared Avidon was great for us through seven innings. He did exactly what we needed him to do tonight to get the win. East Carolina is an outstanding program and this is a great win for us in front of our home crowd.”

HPU scored in every inning but the fifth, putting up 10 runs on 12 hits in the game. High Point put the leadoff runner on base in six innings and all six of them came around to score. Four Panthers had multi-hit games led by Miedzianowski who went 3-4 with two runs scored and two RBI.

Avidon went seven innings in his longest start of the season. He gave up two runs, one earned, on five hits while walking one and striking out five. He retired eight in a row after a one-out single in the second inning and didn’t allow another hit until the seventh. Avidon improves to 1-1 this season.

High Point scored three runs in the second inning to take a 4-2 lead and never looked back. Rush and Josh Spano led off the second with walks. Rush scored on ECU’s second error of the inning and Miedzianowski doubled to score Spano. Miedzianowski scored on a sacrifice fly by Sean Wilson.

Miedzianowski’s double was the end of the day for East Carolina starter Austin Chrismon. The sophomore allowed four runs on one hit with three walks in one inning of work. Chrismon dropped to 0-2 with the loss. The Pirates used nine pitchers in the game. Jake Walsh relieved Chrismon and went the longest of any ECU pitcher, throwing three innings. He allowed three runs on five hits.

Rush picked up two RBI with a single up the middle in the third inning and Medina drove in a run in the fourth with his first triple of the season. Dane McDermott led off the sixth with a single, stole two bases and scored on a pass ball. In the seventh inning Retz led off with a single and was driven home by Miedzianowski.

Devin Bujnovsky extended his hitting streak to eight games with a single in the fifth inning.

Rush finished the day 2-2 with two walks and two RBI and Retz went 2-5 with two runs scored and one RBI. Medina was 2-4, scoring one run and driving in one.

Jordan Foster and Will Resnik combined to keep the Pirates off the board in the eighth inning and Jaime Schultz closed the game. Schultz loaded the bases with two walks and a hit batter in the ninth but struck out pinch hitter Chris Gosick to end the game.

High Point improves its record to 14-9 heading in to Big South play this weekend. The Panthers head to Charleston Southern for a weekend series with the Buccaneers. All three games begin at 2 p.m.

One thought on “High Point Baseball Cruises Past East Carolina in Front of Record Crowd

  1. i was at this game and the starter for HP pitched really well. HP played to win and did a good job. I was also told ECU didn’t play alot of starters for this game and it looked like it. I was there and I was told by several ECU fans that they sat several starters after playing NC State the night before and first conference game this weekend. Would like to see this game with both teams at full strength.

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