Box Score

CLINTON, S.C. – Radford plated double-digit runs for the second straight game and got seven innings from sophomore right-hander Shane Pysh (Wheeling, W.Va./John Marshall) in a 13-3 Big South win over Presbyterian at the PC Baseball Complex.

The Highlanders (7-8, 2-1 Big South) pushed across three runs in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings, and brought the go-ahead run home in the fourth on freshman shortstop Brett Mollenhauer's (Roanoke, Va./Hidden Valley) RBI groundout to second base, giving Radford a 3-2 lead.

Pysh tossed the longest outing of his career, working seven-plus innings, and posted six shutout frames in a row to earn his first win of the season (1-2). After allowing two Blue Hose (2-15, 0-7) runs in the bottom of the first, Pysh retired the next eight hitters in a row and set down nine straight from the fifth inning through the seventh. The righty finished the afternoon allowing seven hits and two earned runs, while striking out a pair.

Radford got seven multi-hit performances on a day that included no extra-base hits and only one multi-RBI swing. Freshman shortstop Jeff Kemp (Bowie, Md./Archbishop Spalding) went 4-for-5, scoring a pair of runs, and junior catcher Robert Lamas (Annandale, Va./Paul VI) was 3-for-4 with two driven in and two runs scored. 

The lone hit that plated multiple runs came on senior left fielder Will Naylor's (Clifton, Va./Paul VI) single up the middle with two outs in the sixth inning, giving Radford a 10-2 lead. 

Presbyterian's multi-hit afternoons came from right fielder Jesse Harmon (2-for-4) and left fielder Mack Hite (2-for-5). Hite scored on an error in the bottom of the first to give Presbyterian its 2-0 lead.

Right-hander Garrett Moore took the loss for the Blue Hose (0-2), allowing four earned runs on 10 hits through 4 2/3 innings.

The final game of the series is set for 1 p.m. Sunday.