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Patrick Currin recorded his fifth save of the season |
GREENSBORO, NC – The UNC Greensboro baseball team won its fifth straight game as the Spartans defeated High Point, 6-5 in a non-conference game Wednesday night at the UNCG Baseball Stadium.
High Point (18-30) opened up a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Chris Ramirez singled to right then scored one batter later when Mark Shorey doubled to left field. Shorey advanced to third on a stolen base then came around to score on Josh Cotton's sacrifice fly.
UNCG (28-17) answered with three runs in the bottom of the third to take a 3-2 lead. With the bases loaded and no outs, Justin Crist plated Logan Smith with the first run on a sacrifice fly to center. David Adams followed that up with a two-run single up the middle.
The Panthers re-took the lead at 4-3 on a two home run to left field by Cotton in the fourth inning.
Seby Renta increased the Panther lead to 5-3 in the sixth with a double down the right field line that brought in Shorey, who led off the inning with a double. The Spartans pushed across three runs in the bottom half of the sixth to take the lead for good. Adam Deleo drove in the first run on a double that hit the top of the left field wall. He advanced to third on Smith's single to short center field then scored the tying run on Jake Linney's single to center. Smith came around to score the game-winning run on a single by Crist.
Adams and Deleo paced the Spartans with two hits each. Shorey went 4-for-4 with three runs scored to lead the Panthers.
Adam Krieger tossed 1.1 innings of relief to improve to 3-1 on the season. Patrick Currin went the final two innings to record his fifth save. Ricky Hudson allowed three runs in three innings of relief to suffer the loss for High Point. The right-hander falls to 1-3 on the season.
The Spartans return to action this weekend for a three-game SoCon series against Appalachian State beginning on Friday at 7 pm. High Point travels to VMI for a three-game Big South series starting on Friday at 3 pm.
UNC Greensboro 6, High Point 5 (May 11, 2005 at Greensboro, NC)
High Point.......... 200 201 000 - 5 10 4 (18-30)
UNC Greensboro...... 003 003 00X - 6 8 0 (28-17)
Pitchers: High Point - Thompson, N; Hudson, R(3); Portice, E(6); O'Donnell, B(8).
UNC Greensboro - Gibson; Judd(4); Krieger(6); Currin(8).
Win-Krieger(3-1) Save-Currin(5) Loss-Hudson, R(1-2) T-2:45 A-210
HR HIPT - Cotten, J (9).
Game notes:
ID-333929
Gibson faced 3 batters in the 4th.
Game: UNCG0511
