No. 7 NC State baseball (4-0) tallied 16 hits, including seven for extra bases, en route to its 18-3 win over High Point (0-4) on Tuesday afternoon at Doak Field at Dail Park.
This is the fourth consecutive game where the Wolfpack has not allowed an opponent to score in the first five innings, and is outscoring its opponents, 55-13, in the early season.
The Pack got on the board right away in the first inning when
Devonte Brown scored on an RBI fielder's choice, and then exploded in the second inning with eight runs on six hits to take a 9-0 lead through two complete.
In the fourth,
Dominic Pilolli drove in LuJames Groover from second with a long single to right field, and then the Pack tallied five more runs in the fifth via Brown's first homer of the year, Groover's RBI double down the left field line, a
Jacob Godman sac fly and Jarrett's 2-RBI double to left to make it 15-0.
High Point got on the board in the sixth on Sam Zayicek's two-run home run to right field, but the Pack responded in the bottom frame on another RBI single by Groover with Brown in scoring position.
DeAngelo Giles rounded out NC State's scoring in the seventh with his first career home run, a two-run shot to left center field to give his team a 16-run lead.
The Panthers managed to push one final run across on a two-out RBI groundout in the ninth.
In his Wolfpack debut on the mound, starting pitcher
Logan Adams (1-0) kept the Panthers at bay, limiting them to just four hits and two earned runs in 5.2 innings while fanning seven batters.
Freshman
Carson Kelly tossed 2.1 innings in relief in his first collegiate appearance, striking out four batters, while
Jacob Dienes threw the final inning of the contest to also mark his collegiate debut.
At the plate, Jarrett led the offensive spark with a 3-for-5 outing and a career-high five runs batted in. Brown (3-for-5), Groover (3-for-6) and
Tommy White (3-for-5) also turned in multi-hit outings, while Giles, Groover, Pilolli and White all drove in two runs each.
Jarrett is 10-for-15 (.667) while White is 12-for-19 (.632) through just four games this year.
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