BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 ATHENS, Ga. – Jessie Hutchens hit a two-out, two-run seventh inning home run and senior Morgan Eye, made a game-ending diving catch with the base loaded as Radford rallied past Indiana State, 3-2, in the final game on day two of the Bulldog Invitational. The Highlanders (2-6) were defeated in their first game by North Dakota State.
 
Radford 3, Indiana State 2

Behind some seventh inning magic, big defensive plays and a solid outing in the circle, Radford rallied from a 2-0 hole to defeat Indiana State, 3-2, in the nightcap.
 
Trailing 2-1 entering the seventh, freshman Casey Burns drew a two-out walk and Hutchens followed a two-run long ball to centerfield. In the bottom half of the frame, the Sycamores (9-9) loaded the bases when a two-out error and walk extended the inning. However, a shallow fly ball toward the rightfield line was snagged on a diving effort by Eye to end the contest and spoil what could have been Indiana State's second seventh-inning comeback in as many games against the Highlanders.
 
Eye, who also recorded a hit, had a stellar game in right. In the fifth, she made a long running catch deep in the rightfield corner for the first out, then gunned out the runner from the wall, trying to stretch a single into a double for the second out.
 
The third factor was freshman Rachael Walters, who put forth her best outing in the circle of her young career. She went the distance for her first complete game, surrendering an earned run on sixth. She struck out eight and only walked one batter. The rookie was able to get out of some tight situations, including the seventh, to earn her second win of the season.
 
Indiana State broke a scoreless deadlock with a two-run fourth, highlighted by a leadoff home run from Shelby Wilson. An error and a sacrifice fly tacked on the second run.
 
A half inning after falling behind, Burns gave the Highlanders some momentum, putting them on the board with a one-out RBI double, plating classmate Becky Mantel, who singled ahead of her.
 
Six different Highlander recorded hits, including freshman Nia Chiles whose pinch-hit bunt single was the first of her collegiate career.
 
North Dakota State 8, Radford 0 (5)
North Dakota State's (6-10) Whitney Johnson held Radford hitless and the Bison scored six two-out runs to defeat the Highlanders, 8-0 in five innings.
 
Johnson struck out six and walked three over five innings.
 
NDSU scored all the runs it would need in the top of the first as a pair of two out walks and a dropped fly ball in right that led to three two-out unearned runs. The Bison added four more, three with two outs, in the third and closed out with another in the fourth.
 
The Highlanders drew three walks for their only base runners of the game. Senior Jackie Jenkins suffered the loss (2ER, 6 hits, 2.2 IP) with a strikeout and a pair of free passes. Freshman Allie Reid tossed the final 2.1 innings, allowing an earned run on three hits with two walks and a punchout.

It was the first time Radford was no-hit since March 1, 2006 in a 3-2 nine-inning defeat at Virginia Tech.
 
Radford closes out the tournament tomorrow with a pair against No. 23 Georgia starting at 12:30 p.m.