By MONTE DUTTON

Rather than seeing whether or not Scottie Scheffler can manage to hold a five-stroke lead in three holes at rain-delayed Harbour Town this morning, I’ve elected to apply myself to more substantive matters.

Lawyers, chiropractors and analysts never end. I’m not experienced enough to make this judgment as I’ve never been to a shrink, but analysts are everywhere and take many forms. None ever ends. Throw in the consultants and you’ve got a vigorous economy.

I watch too many old movies, but life is starting to imitate film noir. Given a choice, I’d prefer screwball comedy. Oh, wait.

When someone gets irrationally agitated about a simple matter, odds are he (or she) has something to hide.

As Jimmy Buffett wrote, “Don’t ever forget that you just may wind up being wrong.”

Presbyterian College bused to High Point leading the Panthers by two games in the Big South baseball standings. The Blue Hose returned trailing the Panthers by a game.

High Point (22-18, 11-4) finished off a sweep with a 10-6 Sunday victory. The Panthers outscored the Blue Hose, 38-13, in the trio.

When it began, Presbyterian (19-21, 10-5) was tied for first place with USC Upstate. Now the Blue Hose are third behind the Spartans (13-3) and the Panthers. PC now leads fourth-place Charleston Southern (9-6) by a game.

The next weekend series is in Clinton versus Upstate, commencing Friday. The series after that, May 3-5, is at Charleston Southern. The final one, at UNC Asheville, isn’t until May 16-18, which doesn’t seem important now but may be by then if PC doesn’t get the engine restarted. The Bulldogs are in fifth place at 7-8, three games behind the Blue Hose but with six conference games in the interim.

The Blue Hose play their final four series against the other four conference rivals in the top five. They have already played the bottom four, none of whom has a better league record than 5-10. The Big South tournament, limited to the top four teams, is in High Point, though not in the same park, on May 23-25.

Presbyterian’s next game is at home on Wednesday when Georgia State visits Elton Pollock Field for a 4 p.m. game.

The final game of infamy began well as Presbyterian scored a run in the top of the first inning and held that edge until the bottom of the fourth, when the game exploded in their faces.

High Point scored four runs in that frame, then followed with three more in the fourth and three in the sixth. Presbyterian fought back with four runs in eighth, but they were down by eight runs when that crooked number went up.

Catcher Ryan Becker did his part. The four runs in the eighth were a result of one swing, a grand slam. DH Jackson Hugus and right fielder Rhogue Wallace wielded bats that contained two hits in them.

Left fielder Charlie Klingler and third baseman Cael Chatham amassed six hits and six RBI between them. Konni Durschlag and Adam Stuart each had two hits.

Conditions deteriorated in a hurry for Fenix DiGiacomo (L, 2-4) who started with two shutout innings. His total of five innings’ work resulted in nine High Point hits and seven earned runs. He didn’t walk any. He struck out three. It was no better in Kyle Mueller inning on the hill, but Sean Hollister came on for two innings of scoreless work.

Matt Little (W, 4-2) pitched six innings and limited the Blue Hose to five hits, two runs (one earned) and two walks. He fanned seven.

Take a look at the box here.

Radford (6-9, 3-3) scored the first six goals and the Blue Hose couldn’t surmount the disadvantage in the Highlanders’ 16-6 lacrosse conquest at Bailey Memorial Stadium on Saturday.

Presbyterian (2-12, 1-5) honored seniors Abby Edmisten, Kylie Sullivan, Emma Foard, Lily Clawson and Juliana San Lucas.

PC found half its goal count from the future graduates.

Radford attackers Margaret Gleason and Mady Cheney offered up six goals apiece for the visitors, who fell to the Blue Hose, 14-5, a season ago. Keeper Olivia Hunter snared eight saves against a Presbyterian offense that had 28 shots.

Eric Clakeley’s Blue Hose host Winthrop on Wednesday at 5 p.m., then visit Wofford on Saturday at 1 to bring down the season’s curtain.

No action occurred in Raleigh, where the final softball game between the Blue Hose and North Carolina State was canceled, presumably due to the rain that pushed the baseball game in High Point to 5:30 p.m. instead of the scheduled two.

Presbyterian (14-31, 4-8) visits Gardner Webb next Saturday for a 1 p.m. doubleheader, followed on Sunday by a single game with the same starting time.

A day after finishing second in the stroke-play portion of the Big South Men’s Golf Championship, Winthrop won the conference’s match-play title Sunday with a 3-1 victory over Gardner-Webb to earn the program’s first-ever Big South men’s golf crown and the league’s automatic berth to the NCAA Regionals.

In addition, Winthrop’s Kevin Pendley becomes the first former Big South individual champion (1997-98) to win a team championship as a head coach.

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