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Winner Campbell CAM 24-20
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Radford RAD 20-18
Winner
Campbell CAM
24-20
3
Final
2
Radford RAD
20-18
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Campbell CAM 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 7 0
Radford RAD 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 0

W: BAKER, Katie (12-7) L: Huffman, Kayla (5-6)

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Winner Campbell CAM 25-20
6
Radford RAD 20-19
Winner
Campbell CAM
25-20
14
Final
6
Radford RAD
20-19
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Campbell CAM 1 0 2 1 5 3 2 14 11 0
Radford RAD 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 6 8 4

W: SCHISLER, Amber (7-6) L: Huffman, Kayla (5-7)

Game Recap: Softball |

RADFORD DROPS FIRST TWO GAMES TO CAMPBELL



RADFORD, Va. – The Radford softball team tried to mount a late rally in the opener of Friday's doubleheader against Campbell and got off to a good start in the second. However, neither resulted in a victory as the Fighting Camels held on for a 3-2 decision and pulled away to a 14-6 win.
 
Brittany Wratchford hit her ninth home run of the season to pull the Highlanders (20-19, 4-7) within one late in the first game, while Summer Robinson totaled four hits for the day, including a season-best 3 for 3 performance in the nightcap.

Saturday's finale of the three-game series has been moved to 12 p.m.
 
Game 1
Second-place Campbell (25-20, 10-4) got single runs on two-out hits in the first, third and seventh innings to lead 3-0 before Wratchford struck for a two-run homer with two outs in the seventh. Hunter Mundy led off the inning with a walk and Wratchford put one over the fence in left to bring the tying run to the plate. Hannah Medlam followed by hitting a drive to right, but it was caught just shy of the warning track for the final out.
 
The Fighting Camels had seven hits in the game and got timely run-scoring ones from Abby Perryman in the first, Melissa Tullar in the third and a blooper by Carolyn Smith in the seventh for the eventual game-decider.
 
Katie Baker limited Radford to four hits with four strikeouts and two walks. Kayla Huffman started for the Highlanders and took the loss, giving up two earned runs on five hits with two strikeouts and two walks in four innings. Abby Morrow allowed two hits and the one run in three innings of relief.
 
Game 2
Radford took leads of 3-1 and 5-3 in the game, but Campbell scored in each of its last five turns at-bat, including five in the fifth and three in the sixth. The 14 runs were the most by a Highlander opponent on the season.
 
After the Fighting Camels got an unearned run in the first, the Highlander scored three in the bottom of the inning after starter Megan Richards walked the first three batters. Amber Schisler entered in relief and threw a wild pitch to score Marissa Gagliano. Wratchford and Robinson followed with RBI singles.
 
Schisler tied the game at 3-3 with a two-run homer in the third, but the Highlanders came back with two in the bottom of the inning. After Maggie Rowe and Robinson singled and Medlam walked to load the bases, Sofia Tapia's RBI single made it 4-3 and an RBI fielder's choice off the bat of Lindsey Toneygay plated the other run.
 
Another unearned run after one of four Radford errors in the game got Campbell within a run in the fourth before the decisive back-to-back big innings in the fifth and sixth, which came from two hits in each frame. A hit batter, error and two walks accounted for the tying run. A bases-clearing triple and an RBI groundout plated the other four to make it 9-5.
 
After a leadoff single in the sixth, Schisler was again hit by a pitch and a walk loaded the bases for Taesha DuBoise, who recorded her second three-run triple.
 
The Highlanders scored their final run in the seventh inning on a hit batter, a single by Wratchford and two walks, the run-scoring one to Medlam.
 
Schisler earned the victory in relief, allowing three runs on six hits in four innings. Morrow started the game and worked the first four innings before Huffman came on and pitched the fifth and sixth, suffering the defeat.
 
After a double in the opener, Gagliano saw a seven-game hitting streak stopped in the second game.
 
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