Saturday, April 21
Radford, Va.
1 p.m.
Radford University
vs
Gardner-Webb
RADFORD WELCOMES GARDNER-WEBB FOR WEEKEND SERIES
4/20/2018 5:17:00 PM | Softball
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RADFORD, Va. – Radford welcomes Gardner-Webb to Radford Softball Stadium for a three-game series, which was originally slated for March but was rescheduled due to winter weather. The series opens with a doubleheader on Saturday at 1 p.m., and 3 p.m., and features the finale on Sunday at 1 p.m.
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SETTING THE STAGE
HIGHLANDER HIGHLIGHTS
SCOUTING GARDNER-WEBB
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RADFORD, Va. – Radford welcomes Gardner-Webb to Radford Softball Stadium for a three-game series, which was originally slated for March but was rescheduled due to winter weather. The series opens with a doubleheader on Saturday at 1 p.m., and 3 p.m., and features the finale on Sunday at 1 p.m.
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SETTING THE STAGE
- Opponent: Gardner-Webb (27-20, 8-7 Big South)
- Series: Radford leads 21-10
- Last Meeting: April 2, 2017 | Radford won 5-4
- Location:Â Radford, Va. (Radford Softball Stadium)
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HIGHLANDER HIGHLIGHTS
- Radford (24-15, 6-6 Big South) bounced back with a road sweep over Norfolk State on Wednesday, where the Highlanders outscored the Spartans 15-4 in two games.
- Marissa Gagliano enters with a team-best .371 batting average, which ranks seventh in the Big South.
- She has a .477 on base percentage that stands at fifth in the conference. The redshirt junior leads the team with 46 hits.
- Senior Maggie Rowe has tallied 14 RBIs over the last 12 games. She leads the team with 31 runs driven in and ranks inside the conference's top 10 in RBIs.
- 19 of her 31 RBIs have come with two outs. She has tallied 42 career two out RBIs.
- Kayla Huffman (7-4) has 34 strikeouts over the last eight games she's appeared in and has fanned a combined 27 batters in the previous two Big South series.
- However, Abby Morrow (15-9) leads the team in strikeouts with 74. She is now the leader in career pitching appearances at Radford with 162.
- Morrow ranks seventh in the nation averaging 0.79 walks per seven innings pitched, while the team ranks 19th with a 3.49:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
- Hannah Medlam is tearing it up in conference play with a .390 batting average and a team-best 16 hits.
- Gagliano has scored 11 runs against Big South teams and Rowe has driven in 12.
SCOUTING GARDNER-WEBB
- Gardner-Webb (27-20, 8-7 Big South) enters the weekend winning seven of its last 10 contests including two series wins over Charleston Southern and Winthrop.
- The Runnin' Bulldogs have a 22-11 record at home, but are 4-6 when playing on the road.
- GWU has one of the top offenses in the nation and the top offense in the Big South. Hitting .315 as a team, the Runnin' Bulldogs rank 28th in the country in that category and lead the Big South with 379 hits.
- A big part of that is freshman Katie Prebble, who was recently named one of the 25 finalists for Schutt Sports/NFCA Freshman of the Year.
- She ranks first in the country in home runs per game averaging one per two games played (0.48) and RBIs per game (1.41).
- The freshman also leads the nation in slugging percentage (1.031), home runs (21) and RBIs (66).
- The Runnin' Bulldogs boast the nation's leader in hits as Andria Booth has 77. She has scored a team-high 44 runs as well.
- The Achilles heel for GWU is their pitching, which ranks second to last in the Big South.
- They have given up a conference-high 400 hits, allowed 261 runs to score and opponents are hitting .314 against them.
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