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Radford RAD 12-12, 0-1 BSC
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Winner Liberty LIBERTY 17-12, 4-0 BSC
Radford RAD
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Final
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Liberty LIBERTY
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Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Radford RAD 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 6 3
Liberty LIBERTY 0 0 0 1 4 0 X 5 8 0

W: DIMARTINO, J (5-4) L: Morrow, Abby (9-6)

Game Recap: Softball |

RADFORD DROPS CONFERENCE OPENER TO LIBERTY, 5-2



LYNCHBURG, Va. – After solid defense for most of the game, one bad inning proved costly for the Radford softball team as Liberty scored four unearned runs in fifth en route to a 5-2 decision in the opening game of the teams' Big South series Friday night.
 
Hunter Mundy went 3 for 3 with a home run and a double to tie a career high for hits in the loss. Marissa Gagliano added two two hits for the Highlanders, including an RBI double. Abby Morrow suffered the loss despite allowing just one earned run on five hits with two strikeouts.
 
Radford recorded hits in each of the first four innings against Liberty starter Julia DiMartino, as Mundy doubled with two outs in the first and Summer Robinson, Gagliano and Mundy each singled. However, the Highlanders were unable to follow any of them up.
 
Liberty, meanwhile, had just one hit in the first three frames, an infield single by Katie Zavodny leading off the first. Maggie Rowe then threw her out on the next pitch for her ninth caught stealing of the season.
 
Morrow then retired eight straight batters, backed by solid defense on seven groundouts, before Zavodny started the fourth with a single to right. She moved to second on a sacrifice and scored on an RBI single to center by Sarah Robertson to make it 1-0.
 
Radford was able to answere back and tie it in the top of the fifth on Gagliano's two-out double. Callie Morgan was hit by a pitch and stole second before Gagliano doubled off the glove of the left-fielder, although she was called out on a close play trying to stretch it into a triple.
 
However, a pair of defensive miscues for the Highlanders to start the bottom of the inning opened the door for the Flames' decisive inning. A two-run single by pinch-hitter Jaclyn Amador following the two errors made it 3-1, another run came home a swinging bunt and a two-out single against reliever Kayla Huffman capped the inning.
 
Mundy, who reached base for the seventh straight game, provided the game's final run with her homer to left with one out in the sixth, tying the team-lead with her fifth of the season. DiMartino then worked around a walk in the seventh to finish it. She allowed six hits and struck out eight.
 
The teams will complete the series with a doubleheader on Saturday, beginning at 3 p.m.
 
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