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Norfolk State NSU 8-10
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Winner Radford RAD 14-13
Norfolk State NSU
8-10
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Final
10
Radford RAD
14-13
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 R H E
Norfolk State NSU 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 5 2
Radford RAD 2 0 1 0 0 7 10 8 0

W: Morrow, Abby (11-7) L: HALFORD,Hunter (5-5)

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Norfolk State NSU 8-11
8
Winner Radford RAD 15-13
Norfolk State NSU
8-11
0
Final
8
Radford RAD
15-13
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Norfolk State NSU 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Radford RAD 0 3 0 3 2 8 9 0

W: Huffman, Kayla (3-3) L: PRZESLAWSKI,Megan (3-6)

Game Recap: Softball |

RADFORD WALKS OFF WITH TWO RUN-RULE VICTORIES



RADFORD, Va. – The Radford softball team won in style twice Wednesday afternoon, hitting walk-off home runs to cap off each game against Norfolk State as it pulled away to a 10-2 six-inning victory in the first and notched an 8-0 five-inning shutout in the nightcap.
 
Marissa Gagliano closed out the opener with three-run shot for her first career homer, while Summer Robinson put an end to the second with a two-run longball as the Highlanders (15-13) posted their third straight run-rule victory and improved to 6-1 at home.
 
Brittany Wratchford added her first career grand slam in a seven-run sixth inning that wrapped up the first game. Hunter Mundy continued her torrid pace at the plate with a 4 for 5 day, extending her hitting streak to seven games and giving her six multi-hit efforts in the last seven contests, while totaling three RBIs and three runs scored.
 
Kayla Huffman recorded the first one-hitter of her career and totaled 10 strikeouts in the shutout win, extending her scoreless innings streak to 26.1 innings. Abby Morrow picked up her 11th win of the season in the first game, while allowing five hits.
 
Game 1
Mundy got the Highlanders on the board in the first inning, ripping an RBI double to left-center, plating Gagliano who had drawn a leadoff walk. After a Norfolk State error, Maggie Rowe dropped an RBI single in front of the left-fielder to make it 2-0. Radford added another run in the third as Kayla Bishton followed a walk to Mundy with a run-scoring double to right-center.
 
Morrow escaped Norfolk State scoring threats by stranding five runners in the first three innings before the Spartans got on the board with a leadoff homer in the fourth and made it 3-2 with another one in the sixth.
 
However, the Highlanders ended it quickly in the bottom of the inning on Wratchford's grand slam and Gagliano's three-run shot. Mundy led off with a single, back-to-back walks loaded the bases and Wratchford homered to left for her seventh of the season and second straight career-best four-RBI game. Robinson followed with a single, Lindsey Toneygay doubled for her first collegiate hit and Gagliano powered one over the fence in left-center.
 
Game 2
After an eight-game in the opener, Radford totaled nine in the nightcap, with Mundy, Robinson and Lauren Maddrey each collecting two. Mundy, Robinson, Gagliano, Sofia Tapia each had two RBIs.
 
The Highlanders used three hits, a pair of walks and a hit batter to take a 3-0 lead in the second inning. Robinson scored the first run when Gagliano drew a free pass with the bases loaded and Tapia followed with a two-run single to center.
 
Radford then made it 6-0 in the fourth on an RBI double by Gagliano and a two-run single by Mundy. Robinson led off the inning with a base hit and Maddrey followed a bunt single for her first mulit-hit game to set the table.
 
Robinson then hit her fourth homer of the season to left field with one out in the fifth, following up a leadoff single by Rowe.
 
Huffman, meanwhile, posted double-digit strikeouts for the second time in three starts recording two in the first inning and three each the third and fourth. She held the Spartans hitless until a one-out single in the fifth, while pitching around three walks.
 
Wednesday's first victory gave Aileen Morales her 100th as a collegiate head coach and the second one was her 50th for the Highlanders.
 
Radford returns to conference play and heads back out on the road with a three-game series at Gardner-Webb, beginning with a doubleheader on Saturday, starting at 2 p.m.
 
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