No. 20 Duke Rolls to 11-3 Victory Over High Point

Wednesday, April 26

Durham, N.C.

6 PM

Duke University

29-12

High Point

13-29

High Point

Duke

No. 20 Duke Rolls to 11-3 Victory Over High Point

4/26/2023 9:22:00 PM | Baseball

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DURHAM – Graduate transfer MJ Metz tallied his fourth consecutive game with a home run on Wednesday, blasting a three-run shot to center field, to lift No. 20 Duke (29-12) to an 11-3 victory over High Point (13-29).

Freshman Andrew Healy improves to 4-1 on the season, working four innings of one unearned run baseball.

HOW IT HAPPENED

High Point opened the scoring in the top of the first on an error, 1-0.
Graduate transfer Giovanni DiGiacomo singled to center field in the bottom of the first inning to score a pair, 2-1. Junior Luke Storm singled to right center field to add a pair, 4-1. Freshman Tyler Albright singled up the middle to score two more, 6-1.
In the bottom of the third inning, junior Jay Beshears singled through the left side to score Alex Mooney from second, 7-1.
Graduate transfer MJ Metz hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning, 10-1. DiGiacomo hit a sacrifice fly to left field to score Damon Lux from third, 11-1.
High Point cut into the lead in the top of the seventh, 11-3.

NOTES

Junior Alex Stone extended his team leading hitting streak to 15 games with a single in the bottom of the first inning.
Graduate transfer MJ Metz hit his 10th home run of the season, a three-run blast to center field. It marked the fourth consecutive game with a home run for Metz.
Duke improved to 14-0 when scoring 10 or more runs in a game this season.

QUOTES

"I just told our guys down the line this was a test for us tonight. They are fatigued no question about it. You wouldn't be human if you weren't tired after what we have gone through. We won four really emotional games that took a lot out of us. Every game this past weekend was an emotional win, then you have to go on the road and get another emotional win. We could have come out flat tonight and we didn't do that. They get the run in the top of the first on the error and then we had a great approach to have an answer with two outs in the bottom half." – Head coach Chris Pollard on the grind the last five days have been on the team.

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