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RADFORD, Va. – Radford scored runs to rally in the eighth and ninth innings, but VMI's five-run seventh was the difference in a 10-7 win for the Keydets in the resumption of a suspended Big South game on Saturday.

Game two, which was originally scheduled for Saturday, was moved to Sunday. The final two series games will be played with a 1 p.m. start time.

The game resumed at 12:58 p.m. on Saturday, more than 17 hours after it was stopped on Friday night at 7:12 p.m. It was the first game played in Radford's new baseball stadium, and drew a school-record 1,085 fans on Friday night.

Cory Turner was 3-for-4 and drove in three runs for the Highlanders (16-13, 2-5 Big South), including both late-inning tallies. He hit his second homer of the season in the fourth, then singled with one out in the ninth to make it a 10-7 lead for VMI. Matt Mack was 2-for-4 and had two RBIs.

Alex Haitsuka was 2-for-5 for the Keydets (15-14-1, 5-5) and drove in the biggest runs of the game on a three-run, bases-clearing double with two outs in the seventh. Sam Roberts was 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles, and Justin Hess was 3-for-5 and scored twice.

When the game resumed on Saturday, the Keydets had a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning. The Highlanders scored four runs in the bottom of the third to take their first lead, 4-3. Mack's two-run double cut the lead to 3-2. Following a wild pitch that scored Turner, Mack scored on Alex Guerra's groundout to the right side to give the Highlanders a one-run advantage.

The Keydets got two in the fourth on a pair of Radford errors, giving VMI a 5-4 lead before Turner doubled home a run in the fifth for the Highlanders, tying the game at 5-5.

In the seventh, Hess singled home Justin Topping with two outs to spark the five-run frame that was highlighted by Haitsuka's double.

"We didn't make enough plays and the errors we had cost us multiple runs,” head coach Joe Raccuia said. “There were potential outs, double plays, and big innings cost us the baseball game.”

In the eighth, the Highlanders strung together three two-out singles before the inning ended on Graham Sullivan's throw from left field to the plate to get Ryan Burgess, who started the rally and tried to score on a Robert Lamas single through the left side.

The Highlanders had three ninth-inning hits, including Turner's single to make it a 10-7 game. Roberts, who move from shortstop to pitch in the ninth, retired the final two hitters to close out the game.

Alan Watts worked four relief innings for the Keydets, struck out four, and earned the win (2-0).

Derrick Brewer started the resumed portion of the game for the Highlanders, and despite allowing no earned runs in an inning and a third, took the loss (0-3). The Highlanders committed three errors, leading to six unearned runs.