Box Score

COLUMBUS, Ga. – Radford hit four home runs and battled No. 4 Missouri for 10 innings, but was edged in the end, 7-6 in its final game at the NFCA Leadoff Classic at the South Commons Softball Complex.

After the Highlanders (1-4) did not score in the top of the 10th, Abby Vock's bases loaded walk-off single with one-out gave the Tigers (8-2) the one-run victory.

Sophomore Meredith Moore (Roanoke, Va./Cave Spring) forced extra innings, lacing a one-out pinch home run to right center off of Chlesea Thomas in the top of the seventh, knotting the game at 4-4.

The team traded single runs in the eighth and ninth innings. Radford had an opportunities in both frames to put more push across more runs, but had a runner thrown out at home in the eighth and left the bases loaded in the ninth.

Along with Moore, sophomore Nichole Beall (Culpeper, Va./Culpeper County), junior Taylor Cunningham (Fairfax, Va./Robinson Secondary) and senior Hope Creasy all went yard for the Highlanders.

Beall, Creasy and Sarah Himan (Woodbridge, Va./Hylton) recorded two hits apiece. Beall finished the tournament, batting .467 (7-15) with four home runs, five RBI and five runs scored. She slugged 1.267 and registered a .556 on base percentage.

Rhea Taylor, Nicole Hudson and Rachel Hay each registered two hit for the Tigers.

Thomas picked up the win in six innings of relief. She allowed three runs, one earned on three hits with seven strikeouts.

In her first start, freshman Heather Paquette (Mississauga, Ontario/Streetsville Secondary) suffered the defeat, allowing six runs, all unearned, with two strikeouts. She scattered nine hits over 5.2 innings of work.

Kellie Snooks (Alsip, Ill./Marist) sandwiched Paquette's appearance with 3.2 innings of solid relief. The junior allowed a run on four hits with three strikeouts.

Radford jumped out to a 2-0 lead with solo home runs in the top of first and second Beall and Cunningham. It was Beall's fourth of the tournament and Cunningham's first of her collegiate career.

Missouri answered with three unearned runs in the bottom of the second to take a 3-2 lead. A chopper over third base and a throwing error, followed by a groundout put runners on second and third with one out.

Gina Schneider put the Tigers on the board with a sac fly and Rhea Taylor laced the game-tying two-out double to right, giving them the lead. Catherine Lee put Mizzou in the lead with a pinch-hit single to right.

Creasy tied the game at 3-3 in the fourth with a line shot over the fence in center.

Mizzou reclaimed the lead with a solo home run that just sneaked over the fence by Schneider with one out in the sixth.

Radford returns to action on Tuesday, March 2 at #23 North Carolina. First game of the twinbill is scheduled for 3 p.m.