Radford University
20-15
Fairleigh Dickinson
15-16-1
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Runs R | Hits H | Errors E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairleigh Dickinson | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
| Radford | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | X | 13 | 20 | 0 |
BASEBALL POUNDS FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON 13-4
4/14/2012 7:25:00 PM | Baseball
Mack went 3-for-5 with five RBIs along with his pair of homers. Home runs by Jeff Kemp and Cory Turnerin the sixth inning were part of a 20-hit game for the Highlanders (20-15).
"Mack's homer in the third was a huge hit for us," head coach Joe Raccuia said. "We needed to put a crooked number on the board after last night."
Costello (7-0) allowed a run on five hits, struck out a batter and walked two on 71 pitches through seven frames to limit Fairleigh Dickinson (15-16-1).
"I thought Tyler was good," Raccuia said. "His fastball command was pretty good. It was a little tough for him to get in a good rhythm with us scoring runs, but he wa able to attack with that fastball. He's given us a bunch of good innings and deserves what he's getting."
Turner led the way for the Highlanders with a 4-for-4 game, Brett Mollenhauer was 3-for-5 and scored three times, and Phil Bondi added a 3-for-4 game.
Shane Siebler was 3-for-4 with an RBI for Fairleigh Dickinson. Ryan Kresky went 2-for-3 and drove in two runs.
After the Knights jumped on the board first with Kresky's sacrifice fly RBI in the third inning, the Highlanders answered back with Mack's three-run, two-out homer in the bottom half to give Radford a 3-1 lead.
Four more runs, including three with two outs, came in the fifth inning for Radford. Mollenhauer tripled to start the inning and scored on a wild pitch to make the lead 4-1. Bondi had an RBI single to make the advantage five runs, the with two outs and the bases loaded, Josh Gardiner's single brought home two more runs and made it 7-1 for the Highlanders.
In the sixth, all five runs came by way of the home run – Kemp hit a two-run blast to straight-away center field, Mack added his second homer with a two-run shot two batters later, then Turner's solo home run to right made it 12-1.
Radford added another run in the seventh. Fairleigh Dickinson scored a run in the eighth and two in the ninth.
Fairleigh Dickinson right-handed starter Joe Borelli went four innings in the loss (2-1), allowing three runs on six hits with a pair of strikeouts.
The series wraps up at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Costello, Tyler (7-0)
L: BORELLI, Joe (2-1)
Batting:
2B: SIEBLER, Shane 1
RBI: HEWSON, Mike 1 ; KRESKY, Ryan 2 ; SIEBLER, Shane 1
Base Running:
RUNS: RITZ, Jordan 1 ; ELIASEN, Mike 1 ; HORETSKY, Brandon 1 ; SIEBLER, Shane 1
SB: RITZ, Jordan 1
CS: HOLSMAN, Matt 1
HBP: RITZ, Jordan 1 ; ELIASEN, Mike 1 ; LOFTUS, Jack 1
Batting:
2B: Burgess, Ryan 1
3B: Mollenhauer, Brett 1
HR: Kemp, Jeff 1 ; Mack, Matt 2 ; TURNER, Cory 1
RBI: Kemp, Jeff 2 ; Mack, Matt 5 ; Burgess, Ryan 1 ; TURNER, Cory 1 ; Bondi, Phil 1 ; Gardiner, Josh 2
SH: Wright, Daniel 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Costello, Zach 1 ; Mollenhauer, Brett 3 ; Kemp, Jeff 1 ; Hillsinger, Matt 1 ; Marshall, Patrick 1 ; Mack, Matt 3 ; TURNER, Cory 2 ; Bondi, Phil 1
SB: Costello, Zach 1 ; Mollenhauer, Brett 1 ; Marshall, Patrick 1 ; Bondi, Phil 1
CS: TURNER, Cory 1
HBP: Costello, Zach 1
