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A two-run home run by junior Devin Bujnovsky in the seventh inning provided the High Point University baseball team with the insurance runs it needed to pull out an 8-5 over Army Saturday in the first game of the double header. Jaime Schultz earned his second save of the weekend.

High Point starts the season 2-0 with the series win over Army. Sophomore Zach Haile pitched two innings of relief, allowing just one hit to earn his first win of the season. It was his first appearance since the 2010 season. Ken Jackson took the loss for Army, throwing 2-1/3 innings allowing three runs on five hits with one strikeout.

“It's not the best we could have played,” said head coach Craig Cozart. “But I am proud that our team responded to their first taste of being behind in a game. We scored in every inning but two and our offense is starting to click.”

Bujnovsky gave High Point a 6-3 lead with his home run in the seventh inning. He sent the 1-0 pitch from Jackson down the right field line and it just cleared the fence. The homer scored Sean Wilson, who had singled to right to lead off the inning.

Army answered with two runs in the top of the eighth off junior Kyle Wigmore. Michael Sands had a two-RBI double to left center to cut High Point's lead to 6-5. Schultz relieved Wigmore with two outs and Sands on second, getting a ground ball off the bat of Harold Earls to end the inning. After Schultz hit the leadoff batter in the ninth, Zach Price lined into a double play and Daniel Cortez flew out to left to end the game. Schultz has earned four-out saves in each of the first two games this season.

HPU added a pair of insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth to make the score 8-5. Freshman Dane McDermott recorded his first career hit with a single to left centerfield and scored on a single by junior Zach Hubbard. Freshman Spencer Angelis also picked up his first collegiate hit in the inning and came around to score on a defensive miscue by the Black Knights.

Sophomore John Carlson cruised through the first four innings of his first start for High Point. He allowed just one hit before the fifth inning when he ran into trouble. He gave up an RBI single to Earls who scored on a double by Cody Murtle. With Murtle on second, Carlson was relieved by freshman Will Resnik. Resnik got the second out of the inning and then let the inherited runner score on a single off the bat of Cortez. Sophomore John Maloney came out and recorded the final out of the inning, with the score Army 3, High Point 2.

Carlson finished the day allowing three runs on four hits, with five strikeouts in 4-1/3 inning.

Bujnovsky scored on a throwing error by the Army catcher to tie the score, 3-3, in the bottom of the fifth. Scott Glover had an RBI single through the right side in the sixth to give HPU the lead for good.

Freshman Ryne Rush finished the game 2-3 with a run scored. Bujnovsky was 1-3 with two walks, two RBI, and two runs scored. Junior Sean Wilson also picked up two hits in the game and senior Sal Pezzino scored a pair of runs.

High Point starts the season 2-0 for the first time since 2009 when they beat Dayton.