Box Score

BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – A one-out single in the bottom of the ninth by Kelsey Witter gave Gardner-Webb a 3-2 walk-off win over Radford, Sunday afternoon in the series finale from Varsity Field.

After a throwing error with one out put a runner on second, Jane Savage singled pinch runner Jessica Milligan to third and Witter singled through the 3-4 hole for the win.

Jessica Childers picked up the victory for the Runnin' Bulldogs (10-17, 3-2 Big South) as she surrendered two runs on four hits with three strikeouts and two walks.

Jackie Jenkins suffered the defeat, her first of the season, in 5.2 innings of relief work. Jenkins (9-1) scattered five hits.

Stephanie Dameron started for the Highlanders (21-12, 3-2) and went the first 2.2 innings and allowed two runs on six hits with one strikeout.

Back-to-back two-out RBI singles by Lindsea Hutchinson and Savage gave Gardner-Webb the early 2-0 lead after one.

Savage finished 3-for-4, while Witter was 2-for-4. Gardner-Webb recorded 11 hits all singles.

Radford mustered just four hits, which included triples by Lauren Williams and Vicki Madden.

The Highlanders got one run back in the top of the third when Williams tripled to the fence in rightcenter and scored on a sac fly to shallow right by Kristen Shifflett.

Jenkins got out of a jam in the third. After two singles knocked Dameron out of the game, Jenkins first pitch in the dirt advanced the runners to second and third, but she induced a grounder to shortstop to end the frame.

Madden tied it in the fifth with a one-out triple to right center, scoring Shannon Keefe from second.

The loss snapped a 10-game winning streak against the Bulldogs.

Radford returns home for a mid-week doubleheader against in-state foe Longwood on April 6 at 4 p.m.