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Winner Radford RADFORD 17-7
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Marshall University MAR 17-12
Winner
Radford RADFORD
17-7
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Final
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Marshall University MAR
17-12
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Radford RADFORD 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 5 8 1
Marshall University MAR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3

W: Morrow, Abby (10-5) L: DIXON, J. (13-10)

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Radford RADFORD 17-8
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Winner Marshall University MAR 18-12
Radford RADFORD
17-8
3
Final
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Marshall University MAR
18-12
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Radford RADFORD 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 9 2
Marshall University MAR 0 0 1 3 1 3 X 8 14 3

W: DIXON, J. (14-10) L: Huffman, Kayla (5-2)

Game Recap: Softball |

RADFORD EXCHANGES FIVE-RUN DECISIONS WITH MARSHALL


 
HUNTINGTON, W.VA. – The Radford softball team split its doubleheader with Marshall on Wednesday afternoon, winning the opener on a 5-0 shutout before the Thundering Herd pulled away to an 8-3 decision in the nightcap.
 
Abby Morrow tossed the complete-game shutout, her third of the season, while the Highlander defense recorded three double plays in the game. Whitney Davis led the way offensively, going to 2 for 3 with three RBIs on a two-run homer and a triple. Kayla Bishton added two hits and the other two RBIs.
 
Radford's defense first came up big to keep the game scoreless in the bottom of the third. After a leadoff double and a single put runners at second and third, Marissa Gagliano and Davis combined to turn a 6-3-2 double play, cutting the lead runner down at home. With a runner still on third, Casey Burns fielded a groundball and made a quick throw to first to get Thundering Herd leading base stealer Kaelynn Greene.
 
Davis then got the Highlanders on the board in the top of the fourth, going the other way to put one over the fence in right-center for her fifth homer of the season after Bishton had reached on an error. The homer moved her into seventh alone in program history with 27.
 
Radford added three more runs after Marshall ace Jordan Dixon left after the fourth inning. Summer Robinson kept the sixth inning going with a two-out single before Davis drove one in a similar direction for her RBI triple.
 
The Highlanders did more damage with two outs in the seventh. After Becky Mantel reached on an error, Marissa Yow singled and Bishton sliced one toward the line in left, plating both Mantel and pinchrunner Haley Hutchins.
 
Meanwhile, after escaping the jam in the third, Morrow worked perfect innings in the fourth and fifth and got double plays lineouts to end the sixth and seventh. Morrow (10-5) scattered his six hits, struck out three and didn't walk a batter for the ninth time in her last 10 starts.
 
Radford led the second game 3-1 before Marshall scored three runs in the fourth, one in the fifth and three more in the sixth.
 
RU got on the board first as Bishton delivered a two-out RBI single to center in the third inning. Gagliano scored on the play after drawing a walk and moving to second on a groundout.
 
Marshall tied it in the bottom of the inning on an inside the park home run by Greene. She placed a low liner perfectly in right center and scored fairly easily when ball rolled all the way to the fence.
 
The Highlanders answered back to take the 3-1 edge in the fourth on four hits and an error. Davis sent one deep to left that went off the glove off the outfielder for a double. Burns followed with a sharp single and Hannah Medlam put one back up the middle to score Davis. After an error kept the inning going, Gagliano dropped an RBI single into shallow left.
 
The Thundering Herd responded with three runs on four hits and an error in the bottom of the inning. Katalin Lucas' two-run homer tied it and two singles put runners on first and second. With two outs, leadoff batter Elicia D'Orazio hit a bouncer to short and Gagliano's off-balance throw to first was wide, giving Marshall a 4-3 lead.
 
Raquel Escareno added the Thundering Herd's third homer of the game in the fifth. They then capped the scoring with three runs in the sixth, taking advantage of their speed with five infield hits and aggressive baserunning.
 
Dixon, the program's all-time wins leader, went the distance for the victory. Kayla Huffman (5-2) suffered the loss, allowing four runs on six hits in four innings.
 
Gagliano went 3 for 3 at the plate, while Bishton recorded her second two-hit game of the day.
 
Radford remains on the road, but returns to conference play with a three-game series at Winthrop. The teams will play a single game Friday at 5 p.m. and a doubleheader Saturday starting at 1 p.m.

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