BOX SCORE RADFORD, Va. – Matt Mack's bases-clearing double in the third inning gave Radford the lead for good, and the Highlanders scored all of their runs with two outs in a 6-3 win over No. 25 Coastal Carolina in the second game of a Big South series on Saturday.
 
Tyler Costello (5-0) allowed two runs in six innings to win his fifth start in a row for Radford (15-12,4-1 Big South), which beat the Chanticleers (17-8, 1-1) for the first time since the 2009 Big South Tournament.  Jason Patten posted 2 2/3 scoreless innings to close out the game and earn his fourth save.
 
Mack went 2-for-4, Josh Gardiner went 2-for-3 and scored, and Cory Turner hit his second home run of the season, a solo shot in the seventh inning.

"We didn't need just the one run at a time against this team today," head coach Joe Raccuia said.  "The way things had gone in the past against them, we needed to get a bunch of runs on one swing."

"Not easy to score with two outs - got to get the runners on first then drive them in.  Innings are never over - on the pitching side you've got to put them away and on the offensive side, you've got to string together some at-bats."
 
Daniel Bowman led Coastal Carolina with a 3-for-5 game.  The Chanticleers had 11 hits but left 10 on base.
 
Alex Buccilli's RBI single in the first got Coastal on the board and ended Costello's scoreless streak after 26 innings.  Three straight two-out hits in the top of the third included Chris Suseck's two-out double to left field to score Tucker Frawley, but Ted Blackman was cut down right behind him on a good relay throw to the plate by Jeff Kemp.
 
The Highlanders rallied from the 2-0 deficit and went ahead in the third on Mack's double, which came after a pair of hits to begin the bottom of the inning and an intentional walk to Matt Hillsinger.

"Mack is our toughest kid - he had a bad at-bat earlier in the game, striking out, but he's never going to quit," Raccuia said.
 
In the bottom of the fifth, Kemp scored from third on a wild pitch with the bases loaded and two outs, and Turner was hit by a pitch on the next play to bring in another run, making it a 5-3 Radford lead.
 
Tyler Herb allowed five runs (three earned) on nine hits in 4 2/3 innings in the loss (4-2).
 
The series concludes at 2 p.m. on Sunday.