2024 Big South Championships Postgame
Ryan Frye
0
USC Upstate UPST 36-24
6
Winner High Point HPU 34-25
USC Upstate UPST
36-24
0
Final
6
High Point HPU
34-25
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
USC Upstate UPST 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
High Point HPU 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 X 6 8 0

W: WOZNIAK, Brett (8-2) L: Ellingworth, Cooper (5-4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Sees Historic 2024 Season Come to a Close, Dropping Big South Tournament Championship Game to #2 High Point

HIGH POINT, N.C. – Advancing to the Big South Baseball Tournament Championship Game for the second consecutive season, USC Upstate baseball wrapped its historic 2024 season Saturday afternoon, falling 6-0 to No. 2 seed High Point.
 
Junior leftfielder Jace Rinehart recorded Upstate's lone multi-hit game, picking up a pair of hits, jumping his total to 94 on the season—the second most in a season in program history and the most in the Big South Conference this season. He concludes his campaign with a team-high 32 multi-hit efforts across 60 games.
 
Joining Rinehart as Big South statistical leaders at year's end, redshirt senior first baseman Grant Sherrod and redshirt junior rightfielder Koby Kropf, like Rinehart, each started all 60 games for Upstate. Sherrod ends the season leading the conference with 78 RBI—the seventh-most by a league player in a season—while Kropf concludes the year with a league-best 20 homers.
 
On the mound Saturday, senior left-handed pitcher Jagger Jefferis worked 2.1 scoreless innings out of the bullpen, striking out two in his final appearance of the season.
 
Game Information
Score: #2 High Point 6; #3 USC Usptate 0
Records: USC Upstate (36-24; 16-8 Big South); High Point (34-25; 17-7 Big South)
Location: Truist Point | High Point, N.C.
 
How It Happened
  • B1: Opening the day's scoring, High Point found itself on the scoreboard as Cael Chatham homered to straightaway centerfield.
  • B2: Adding to their lead, the Panthers tacked on two in the second. The first pushed across on an RBI groundout to short by Patrick Matthews before Konni Durschlag picked up an RBI with a single to right.
  • B4: Lengthening its advantage, High Point plated a fourth run as Matthews doubled into the rightfield corner, scoring Brayden Simpson.
  • B6: High Point added two additional tallies in the sixth with RBI singles from Simpson and Durschlag, going through the left side and dribbling up the third base line, respectively.
 
Notable
  • Recording six strikeouts Saturday, Upstate's pitching staff grew its season strikeout total to 510, tying the 1999 Coastal Carolina pitching staff for the 10th most single-season strikeouts in Big South history.
  • Closing the season with 36 wins, Upstate has won at least 35 games in each of the past four seasons. The program's stretch from 2021 to 2024 represents the longest stretch of seasons winning 30 or more games.
 
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