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Gardner-Webb GWU 0-12, 0-2 Big South
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Winner Radford RAD 5-6, 1-1 Big South
Gardner-Webb GWU
0-12, 0-2 Big South
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Radford RAD
5-6, 1-1 Big South
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Gardner-Webb GWU 7 5 12
Radford RAD 8 11 19

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse |

SECOND HALF SURGE LEADS RADFORD TO FIRST EVER BIG SOUTH VICTORY



GAME INFORMATION
Score: Radford 19, Gardner-Webb 12
Records: Highlanders (5-6, 1-1 Big South) | Runnin' Bulldogs (0-12, 0-2 Big South)
Location: Radford, Va. (Cupp Stadium)
 
RADFORD, Va. – The Radford women's lacrosse team outscored Gardner-Webb 11-5 in the second half leading them to a 19-12 win on Wednesday. It was the Highlanders first Big South Conference victory in program history.
 
Adrian Rius scored just a little over 30 seconds into the game to put Radford (5-6, 1-1 Big South) up, 1-0. Maddie Stephens answered with a goal of her own tying the game at one apiece. The two teams traded goals before Radford went on a 4-0 run over the next five minutes taking a 6-2 lead.
 
Gardner-Webb (0-12, 0-2 Big South) cut the deficit to two with 16:06 remaining in the first half. Emma Rogers found the back of the net twice to extend the lead to four-goals, but the Runnin' Bulldogs notched three straight goals to go into the locker room down one, 8-7.
 
The Highlanders went on a 6-2 run over the first 12 minutes of the second half. Six different players scored in that span and Lindsey Carroll assisted on one goal. The run gave Radford a 14-9 lead with 18:37 to play.
 
Abby Hanscom scored for Gardner-Webb with 15:20, which made it a 14-10 game. Callie Bonnel, Emily Kowalik and Rogers each scored unassisted goals that gave the Highlanders their biggest lead of the game, 17-10 with 7:36 to go.
 
After two Garder-Webb goals, Kowalik and Rius capitalized goals with under 1:30 to play sealing the milestone victory.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
•  Radford outshot Gardner-Webb 46-29, including 24 shots in the second half and only allowing 13.
•  The Highlanders landed 32 of the 46 shots on goal for a 69.5 shot on goal percentage.
•  Radford led Gardner-Webb in ground ball pick-ups, securing 24 to the Runnin' Bulldogs 23 and won 17 draw controls, which is one more than Gardner-Webb.
•  Adrian Rius led the team with five goals and won six draw controls.
•  Emma Rogers scored four goals and had one assist, while Callie Bonnel, Emily Kowalik and Juliette Ruland scored three goals each. Bonnel and Ruland picked up one assist.
•  Lindsey Carroll tallied five assists and had one goal, but led the team with six points and four ground balls.
•  Defensively, Shea Swingle, Kowalik and Rogers caused a game-high two turnovers.
•  Kowalik also won four draws, which is a career-high for the redshirt-freshman.
•  Maddie Mashewske picked up nine saves and has recorded 23 saves over the past two games.
 
QUOTABLE
"I'm thrilled that our team earned our first Big South win in history today. In upcoming years when Radford is a championship caliber program, it will have all started today with these women. I'm lucky enough to coach the best group of kids in the country, and I'm very happy for them today, they deserved it." ~ Radford head coach, Haley Marvine.

UP NEXT
Radford will look to make it two in a row and travel to Rock Hill, S.C., on Saturday to take on Winthrop in the first Big South road contest of the 2017 season. First draw is slated for 1 p.m.

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