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12
Winner Radford RAD 20-19
6
Appalachian State APP 16-22
Winner
Radford RAD
20-19
12
Final
6
Appalachian State APP
16-22
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Radford RAD 6 0 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 12 13 1
Appalachian State APP 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 6 8 2

W: Williams, Hunter (1-3) L: Kepley, Cameron (0-6)

Game Recap: Baseball |

LASER SHOW! HIGHLANDERS TIE SEASON-HIGH WITH FIVE HOMERS IN 12-6 VICTORY AT APPALACHIAN STATE

 
Boone, N.C. – The Radford baseball team scored six runs in the opening inning and cruised to a 12-6 victory against Appalachian State, on Tuesday evening at Smith Stadium. The Highlanders, who also defeated the Mountaineers in Radford earlier in the season, improved to 21-19 while the hosts fell to 16-22. Radford tied their season-high, established first against Bucknell, with five home runs in the contest.

Left-hander Hunter Williams (1-3) was awarded the win after allowing two runs on three hits over three innings of work.

Third baseman Clayton Baine went 3-for-5, slugged a career-high two home runs and drove in three to pace the attack. First baseman Spencer Horwitz (1-for-4) homered and drove in three runs, catcher Will Harless (2-for-3) and right fielder Andrew Szamski (2-for-4) also belted home runs. Center fielder Kyle Butler (2-for-6) added two more hits and is now 12-for-21 over the last four games.

The Highlanders, who finished with 13 hits, scored six times in the opening inning and chased Mountaineer starter Cameron Kepley (0-6).  The red-hot Butler lined a single to start things off and Horwitz followed with a line drive homer, his seventh of the year, down the right field line. Second baseman David Bryant hit a sharp grounder that got under the glove of Appalachian State second baseman Luke Drumheller, plating Harless and Szamski.  Baine closed out the scoring as he launched his second home run of the season, a two-run shot into the left field trees.

The hosts got a run back in the bottom of the frame against Williams on an RBI single by left fielder Kendall McGowan.

Harless sailed his fourth home run of the season over the left field wall to make it 7-1 in the third.

McGowan cut the deficit to 7-2 after he delivered an RBI sacrifice fly to score third baseman Bailey Welch, who led off the bottom of the third with a triple to right center.
 
Radford extended their lead to 10-2 in the top of the fourth. Higgerson recorded a lead-off single and raced to third on a single to right by Butler. Horwitz lifted a sacrifice fly to score Higgerson and then Szamski belted a two-run shot to left for his team-leading ninth homer.
Appalachian State's Luke Drumheller hit a two-out solo homer in the bottom of the fifth off reliever Austin Gerber (3.2 innings, 3 earned runs) to make it 10-3.

Mountaineer first baseman Robbie Young added a solo homer and McGowan had an RBI single off Gerber to make it 10-5 in the seventh.

The Highlanders added an insurance run in the top of the eighth as Horwitz scored on a balk.

Shortstop Joe McDaniel closed out the Mountaineer scoring with a solo homer of reliever Evan Threehouse in the bottom of the eighth.
Baine finished off his big night with a mammoth 428-foot solo home run to left in the top of the ninth.

Radford will host local rival Virginia Tech on Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m.
 
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