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RADFORD, Va. – Jeff Kemp went 3-for-4 and had five RBIs, including the go-ahead runs on a triple in the fourth, to lead Radford to an 11-6 win over Bryant on Saturday afternoon.
 
With the game tied at 4-4 in the fourth, Kemp hit a bases-loaded triple with two outs to give the Highlanders (7-8) the lead for good.  Kemp drove in two more runs on his team-leading eighth double of the season in the bottom of the seventh, capping the scoring.
 
Brett Mollenhauer had a hit, walked twice and scored three times for Radford, and Matt Hillsinger and Josh Gardiner added two RBIs each.  Eight of Radford's runs came with two outs.
 
“We needed a bounce-back today,” head coach Joe Raccuia said.  “These guys in the middle of the order have needed to produce, and when the 3-4 guys are driving runs in you usually win baseball games.
 
“You've got to put up crooked numbers if you want to be a consistent winner.”
 
Freshman left-hander Jeff Maxwell earned his first collegiate win (1-2) – he came out of the bullpen in the fifth and finished the game with five scoreless innings for the Highlanders, striking out three and allowing only two hits.
 
“He did a great job by putting up a bunch of zeroes,” Raccuia said.  “Just one bad pitch, but after stretching some our long relievers in midweek games, for him to do what he did was big and we can attribute any success in the rest of the series to what he did today.”
 
John Mullen had four RBIs and a solo homer to lead off the second inning for Bryant (4-7), and Kevin Brown went 3-for-5 and a two-run homer (3) in the third, his second of the series.
 
An RBI single by Matt Mack in the bottom of the first gave Radford its first lead of the series, as the Highlanders put a pair of runs on the board.  Bryant got the homers from Mullen and Brown, and an RBI groundout from Mullen in the third to take a 4-2 lead.
 
The Highlanders sent 10 men to the plate in the bottom of the fourth, tying the game on Gardiner's two-run single before adding four more runs with two outs, highlighted by the Kemp triple. 
 
After Mullen's two-run double in the fifth made it an 8-6 Radford lead, Maxwell set down 13 of the next 14 hitters to close out the game, including the last 12 Bryant hitters.
 
Joseph Michaud, who allowed seven earned runs in 3 2/3 innings, took the loss.
 
The series concludes with Sunday's 2 p.m. game, shifted back from the original 1 p.m. start.