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HIGH POINT, N.C. – The Eastern Kentucky University baseball team dropped its third consecutive game on Sunday afternoon as the Colonels fell to High Point, 16-5, in the final game of this weekend’s series at Williard Stadium.

Junior Ryan Faidley collected four hits, stole a base, scored a run and drove in a team-best four runs. Junior Jayson Langfels and sophomore Richie Rodriguez, meanwhile, both went 3-for-5 on the afternoon.

Freshman right-hander Anthony Bazzani (1-2) received the loss for EKU, pitching 4.1 innings and allowing 10 runs on 10 hits with two strikeouts.

Murray White IV led HPU offensively, going 4-for-6 with two runs scored, while Kyle Mahoney paced the Panthers with four RBI on the day.

Jared Avidon (2-0) picked up his second win of the season after working 5.2 innings and surrendering four runs on nine hits.

After High Point compiled six runs on five hits in the bottom of the first, the Colonels began to chip away at the lead in the second when freshman Matt Phipps singled to left center and came home on a two-run home run to left field by Faidley.

Matt Gantner drove an opposite field solo home run to left in the third to make it 7-2; however, EKU added two more runs in the fourth courtesy of an RBI single to center by Faidley that scored sophomore Michael Garcia and a sacrifice fly to center by freshman Austin Grisham that plated Phipps.

From there, though, the Panthers scored three in the fifth inning and four in the sixth inning to take a commanding 10-run lead. High Point added two more in the eighth to make it 16-4.

The Colonels would not score again until the ninth, when Faidley drove in his fourth run of the game with a single up the middle that plated Langfels and made the score 16-5.

EKU returns to home this week and will play its Turkey Hughes Field opener on Tuesday, March 16, at 3:00 p.m. against Purdue.