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Radford RAD 1-3
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Winner Elon ELON 3-1
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Radford RAD 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 1
Elon ELON 0 1 0 0 4 1 3 1 X 10 7 1

W: Barrett (1-0) L: Nardi, Andrew (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

NARDI STRIKES OUT CAREER-HIGH NINE IN 10-1 LOSS TO ELON



GAME INFORMATION
  • Score: Elon 10, Radford 1
  • Records: Phoenix (3-1) | Highlanders (1-3)
  • Location: Latham Park | Elon, N.C.
                                      
ELON, N.C. – Sophomore Andrew Nardi struck out a career-high nine batters in his first collegiate start, allowing three runs in 4.1 innings pitched as the Highlanders dropped its first weekday game of the season in a 10-1 decision to Elon, Tuesday afternoon.
 
Nardi faced 17 batters, yielding only two hits and two walks. Despite allowing a two-out home run to Cam Devanney in the bottom of the second, the lefthander punched out five of the first seven batters he faced.
 
In the third and fourth innings, Nardi added three more strikeouts, stranding a runner on second in the fourth inning.
 
Nardi got the best of Devanney to start the fifth inning with a strikeout on three pitches. However, Nardi allowed a double to right field off the bat of Garett Stonehouse. Stonehouse later scored on a wild pitch and Jonathan Gonzalez throwing error to third base. Following a walk, Nardi day was done, giving the ball to Cameron Fritz.
 
Fritz immediately received a fly ball out, but walked his next batter to put two Phoenix on base. Elon followed with back-to-back doubles off the bats of CJ Young and Ryne Ogren as the Phoenix tallied four runs on three hits with one Radford error.
 
Radford's lone run of the game came with one-out in the top of the sixth as Luke Wise lifted a 0-1 pitch over the right-center field wall for his fifth career home run. Wise ended Elon starter Jordan Barett's no-hitter with the home run. Gonzalez ended Barett's perfect game bid in the fifth after reaching on a throwing error.
 
Elon got the run back in the bottom half of the inning on a Shawn Blake home run off newly entered Trey Alderman. The Phoenix added three more runs in the seventh on a three-run home run to straightaway center field off the bat of Ogren, giving the Elon shortstop five RBIs and a 9-1 lead.
 
Elon capped off the 10-1 win on its fourth home run of the day, coming off the bat of Kory Shumate in the bottom of the eighth.

 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • Win: Jordan Barrett (1-0) (7.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER 1 BB, 13 K)
  • Loss: Andrew Nardi (0-1) (4.1 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 9 K)
  • Save: None
  • Elon pitchers combined for a season-high 16 strikeouts.
  • Radford has now struckout 51 times in 125 plate appearances.
  • In addition to setting a career mark in strikeouts, Nardi tossed a career-high 4.1 innings.
  • Barrett entered the game with a career-high of eight strikeouts.
  • Ryne Ogren finished with a 2 for 4 performance with five RBIs, matching a career high.
  • Elon finished with four home runs, the most by a Radford opponent in 2017.
  • Radford opponents have hit seven home runs through four games.
  • Danny Hrbek, Spencer Horwitz and Luke Wise were responsible for Radford's hits.
  • Horwitz kept his hitting and on-base streak alive with a single up the middle in the seventh.
  • Hrbek's second hit of the season came on an infield single in the ninth, beating out a throw by the Elon second basemen.
  • Trey Alderman and John Brocklebank combined for five strikeouts out of the bullpen.
  • Radford pitchers finished with 14 strikeouts.
 
QUOTABLE
  • "[Andrew] Nardi was really good today. It was a quality showing by a guy making his first college start. He kept hitters off balance, sped them up and slowed them down. It makes me feel good about how he attacked the zone and used his off-speed pitches. Hopefully he can continue to grow off of today's start." ~ Radford head coach Joe Raccuia
 
UP NEXT
  • Radford continues play against teams from the Tar Heel State on Friday as the Highlanders open up a three-game series against North Carolina.
  • The two foes last met on April 16, 1997 with Radford taking an 8-4 victory.
  • The all-time series is deadlocked at 1-1.
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