MEISINGER'S GEM AVOIDS SWEEP FOR HIGHLANDERS

BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 Ryan Meisinger took the mound Monday in the second game of the doubleheader against Longwood with his Highlanders in need of a victory to avoid a three-game sweep at the hands of the Lancers. The sophomore right-hander delivered, and Radford posted an 8-3 victory in the nightcap after Longwood took the opening game of the day, 5-4.

GAME 2 • Radford 8, Longwood 3
Meisinger (3-0) pitched 8.0 innings and gave up just one earned run, three in all, to move to 3-0 on the season. He spread out seven Longwood hits with no walks and struck out nine.

After Longwood took a 1-0 lead on an unearned run in the third, the Highlanders gave their starter all the help he would need with three runs in the fifth and another in the sixth.

Blake Sipe knocked in a run with a single to center field to tie the game, and Josh Gardiner gave RU the lead for good with a bunt single to plate the go-ahead run. Radford added its third run of the inning on a Hunter Higgerson single. In the sixth, Chris Coia, who finished 2-4 with a pair of runs scored, came across on a wild pitch to give RU a 4-1 lead.

Zach Woolcock's sac fly pushed the lead to 5-1 in the seventh.

Longwood's Kyri Washington, who hit a home run in each game of the three-game set, homered to left in the eighth to provide the only earned run the Lancers would scratch off of Meisinger.

RU responded with three insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth with Gardiner singling home a run and Higgerson doubling in a couple.

LU would add an unearned run charged to Meisinger in the ninth. Nygeal Andrews recorded the final three outs in a non-save situation for Radford.

Gardiner tabbed high offensive honors with a 3-5 game and two RBIs and two runs scored. Higgerson and Aaron Scoville also recorded multiple hits with two apiece.

Alex Owens was the only Lancer to collect more than one hit going 2-4 with a run scored.

GAME 1 • Longwood 5, Radford 4
Radford's late-inning rally ended with the tying and winning runners in scoring position as Longwood finished taking the first two games of the series with a 5-4 win.

Patrick Marshall struck out looking with runners on second and third to end the game. Mitchell Kuebbing worked 1.1 innings of scoreless relief for the Lancers to record his second save of the season and the series. Brandon Vick (3-2) earned the victory in 7.2 innings pitched and gave up four runs, three earned, and eight hits.

Josh Reavis pushed across a run on a squeeze bunt fielder's choice to give RU a 1-0 lead in the third.

Colton Convicka quickly tied the game a half inning later with an RBI single for the Lancers.

Reavis again gave RU the lead, 2-1, in the fifth with an RBI single, and again Longwood answered right back to tie it on Matt Dickson's RBI base hit.

Brandon Delk's pinch-hit RBI single in the seventh proved to be the game-winner for Longwood, and the Lancers scored another run on a fielding error with the bases loaded to take a 4-2 lead. Washington led off the eighth with a home run to left field to give LU a 5-2 lead.

Radford rallied for two runs in the eighth. Higgerson scored on a passed ball, and Sipe knocked in a run with a single to cut the lead to a single run, but Scoville's liner was caught to end the threat.

James Woods (3-1) took the loss in relief of starter Michael Boyle for the Highlanders.

Coia led the offensive effort going 3-4. Marshall and Sipe each collected two hits.

Dickason and Scott Burkett were the only Lancers with multiple hits with two.

Radford (15-11, 6-3) plays Wednesday at Virginia Tech for a 5:30 p.m. start at English Field.

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