BOX SCORE
Box Score

RADFORD, Va. – Senior Vicki Madden dropped in a walk-off RBI single in the eighth that lifted Radford Softball to a 6-5 extra inning win over Appalachian State, Thursday afternoon from RU Softball Field.
 
With the international tiebreaker rule in effect, Jackie Warr was placed on second and immediately moved to third on a wild pitch. Madden placed the next pitch just in front of the centerfield and Warr scooted home with the game-winning run for the Highlanders (14-8), extending their winning streak to six and home streak to 14.
 
Madden knocked in two runs, which included a sac fly, and walked. Classmate Hannah Ojeda was 2-for-3 with a RBI.
 
Stephanie Dameron improved to 4-0 with three innings of two-hit relief. She allowed a run with a strikeout and two intentional walks.
 
All of the Mountaineers' offense was provided by Allie Cashion, who launched a pair of home runs and finished with five RBI. Caroline Wainright (5-5) suffered the defeat. She surrendered two runs, one earned on three hits with two walks and two punch outs in three innings of relief.

Radford took advantage of two, two-out walks and used three stolen bases to generate a run in the first. Michelle Beall and Jessie Hutchens drew the free passes and then executed a double steal, which allowed Beall to put the Highlanders up 1-0.
 
Beall matched a school record with a career-best three thefts, walked twice and also scored three runs, while Hutchens swiped a career-high two bags. Warr also walked twice as the Highlanders drew a season-high eight walks.
 
Once again, the Highlanders took advantage of a walk to add another two-out run in the second. This time, Ojeda delivered the two-out RBI single to center.

A misplayed popup with two outs kept Appalachian State's third inning alive and Cashion took advantage with a three-run home run to left, giving the Mountaineers their first lead of the game, 3-2.

Radford quickly regained the lead, 4-3, on consecutive sac flies in the fourth. After loading the bases with no outs, junior Ryndee Ruch and Warr lofted deep fly balls to left putting the Highlanders back on top.
 
Another bases loaded sac fly to the fence in center by Madden pushed Radford's lead to 5-3 in the fifth.
 
Cashion tied it at 5-all for the Mountaineers with her second long ball of the day, a two-run shot to center.

Dameron came up big in the ASU's eighth. With one out and the runner of third for ASU, head coach Mickey Dean intentionally walked Cashion putting runners on the corners. After a wild pitch moved Cashion to second, Dameron struck out the next batter. A second intentional walk was issued, but Dameron induced Lindsay Whitlock into a hard grounder that hit the runner leaving first and the threat was averted.

Radford will be off until next Wednesday, March 28 when it hosts Liberty in a Big South twinbill starting at 2 p.m.