GAME ONE BOX | GAME TWO BOX

CLINTON, S.C. – Radford hit five home runs and recorded 20 hits as it swept a doubleheader from first-place Presbyterian, Saturday afternoon from PC Softball Complex. The Highlanders (24-13, 5-2 Big South) edged the Blue Hose (20-10-1, 5-5), 3-1 in game one and cruised to an 11-3 five-inning victory in game two.

Jackie Jenkins tossed 5.2 innings of shutout relief and Kristen Shifflett hit a two-run home run as Radford took the opener, 3-1.

The Highlanders' bats came alive in the game two as they registered a season-high 14 hits and raced out to a 10-2 lead after three innings to earn the twinbill sweep.

Taylor Cunningham went 4-for-6 in the doubleheader. Cunningham recorded a double, home run, two RBI and two runs.

In game one, Jenkins scattered four hits, struck out one and did not walk a batter as she improved to 10-1. Shifflett's second long ball of the season, erased a 1-0 deficit in the third and gave the Highlanders a lead they would not relinquish.

PC struck early as Morgan Duram's one-out double to center plated Lindsey Trombley from first. Duram was caught trying to go to third and the damage stayed at one run.

A one-out single in the second chased starter Stephanie Dameron. Jenkins entered and after a bunt single got out of the first and second jam. She would allow three soft singles the rest of the way.

Radford added a two-out insurance run in the fifth, courtesy of a RBI single by Cunningham.

Lesley Hensley (13-5) went the distance for the Blue Hose, surrendering six hits, walking two and striking out two. Durham, Tera Powell and Amanda Miller had two hits apiece,

Led by 3-for-3 performances from Cunningham and Shannon Keefe and five RBI from Nichole Beall, Radford took game two in five innings.

The first 12 runs of the contest came with two outs.

Dameron (10-3) rebounded from her game one start to scatter seven hits and allow one earned run with three strikeouts.

Cunningham doubled off the fence in left and scored on a Shannon Keefe bloop single to right. Michelle Beall cleared the bases with a two-run shot to center.

PC took advantage of an error to get two back in the bottom half on a Codee Yeske two-run bloop double.

Radford added four more in the second. Nichole Beall laced a three-run long ball to center and two pitches later, Cunningham blasted a solo shot to left centerfield for a 7-2 lead.

Three more in the third pushed Radford's advantage to 10-2 with two coming on single just inside the line by Nichole Beall. Those two gave her five RBI, matching her previous career-high that she recorded on March 20 vs. Delaware.

Three soft singles led to a PC run in the third. Meredith Moore closed out the scoring with her third long ball of season, a leadoff blast to left in the fifth.

Moore, Beall and Lauren Williams all recorded two hits. Williams scored a pair of runs.

The teams wrap up the three-game series tomorrow at 1 p.m.