CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – No. 4 Virginia got three RBIs each from Phil Gosslein and Danny Hultzen on the way to a 12-2 win over Radford on Wednesday night.

Matt Hillsinger had a 2-for-5 game to lead the Highlanders (13-13), hitting his first homer of the season in the sixth inning.

Gosslein went 2-for-4, scored twice and walked twice for Virginia (25-6).  Hultzen had a pair of doubles, driving in runs with each of his three hits.  Keith Werman added a 3-for-3 night with three runs.

“We got beat by one of the best teams in the nation, and that's a little easier to accept if you throw strikes and do things right,” head coach Joe Raccuia said.  “Again, we had self-inflicted wounds tonight.

“It's gonna be like this for a while – there are no 'gimme' games, no easy wins.  You have to play well to beat good teams.”

The Cavaliers used five pitchers with right-handed starter Whit Mayberry earning the win (1-1).  Mayberry allowed a run on three hits in five innings, earning the first win of his collegiate career.

Cassidy McDaniel took the loss for Radford, allowing six runs on nine hits to drop his first decision of the season.

Virginia scored two runs in the first and opened up a six-run lead in the fourth on consecutive run-scoring hits by Werman, Gosslein and Hultzen.  A one-out RBI single from Ryan Burgess in the fifth put the Highlanders on the board and Hillsinger's blast in the sixth made it 6-2, but that's as close as Radford got the rest of the way.  

The Highlanders return to Big South action this weekend, hosting Liberty in a three-game series beginning on Friday.