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Western Carolina WCU 18-28
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Winner Radford RAD 23-28
Western Carolina WCU
18-28
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Final
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Radford RAD
23-28
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Western Carolina WCU 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 6 2
Radford RAD 2 0 0 2 1 3 X 8 8 0

W: Marvin, Jessie (11-12) L: Shaina Reed (7-14)

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Winner Western Carolina WCU 19-28
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Radford RAD 23-29
Winner
Western Carolina WCU
19-28
1
Final
0
Radford RAD
23-29
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Western Carolina WCU 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0
Radford RAD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0

W: Kinsey Liscio (10-9) L: Huffman, Kayla (11-15)

Game Recap: Softball |

TAPIA TALLIES FOUR HITS IN DOUBLEHEADER SPLIT WITH WESTERN CAROLINA



RADFORD, Va. – The Radford softball team split with Western Carolina on Wednesday afternoon as the Highlanders took game one, 8-1, and the Catamounts won the midweek finale, 1-0.
 
GAME ONE
The Highlanders scored a pair of runs in the first inning when Maggie Rowe plated her 27th run of the season and sixth in the last two games. She drove in Hannah Medlam and Talia Douglas, who reached on a single and a walk, respectively.
 
Western Carolina added a run in the third inning when Bailey Honeycutt drove in Madison Armstrong with a single to center field. Jessie Marvin left the tying and go-ahead runs on base as a pop out and groundout to third ended the frame. That was the only blemish on Marvin's line as she finished the game with six hits allowed and six strikeouts in her 15th complete game of the season.
 
Sofia Tapia went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and one run scored. The three hits are a season-high and ties a career-high for the junior. Her second hit of the game came in the fourth inning – a one-out double. Sydney Fisher walked with two outs and scored on the next at-bat as Medlam picked up her second hit of the game and drove in Fisher and Tapia. The two-run single increased the Highlander lead to 4-1.
 
After Ellie Rowe doubled in Sienna Williams in the fifth, Radford was one run away from walking off the field in the sixth inning. Destiny Freeman drew a bases loaded walk and drove in Radford's sixth run. One out later, Tapia tallied her third hit and second double of the afternoon. She was one batter shy of clearing the bases, but Destiny Freeman was thrown out at the plate ending the inning with the score 8-1.
 
Marvin gave up back-to-back hits to lead off the seventh but settled in and struck out the side to close out the contest. She was one strikeout shy of tying a career-high.
 
STAT OF THE GAME
Radford scored eight runs for the third consecutive game. Altogether, the Highlanders have outscored its opponents 39-11 in the last three games.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
Tapia and Medlam had five of the eight hits. Tapia tallied three hits and two RBIs, while Medlam went twos across the board (2-for-2, two runs scored, two RBIs and two walks). M. Rowe had one hit with two RBIs.
 
GAME TWO
The eight-run streak ended in the second game of the afternoon as Kayla Huffman took the tough-luck loss.
 
The senior only allowed one run on two hits and walked two batters with one strikeout. Huffman had a no-hitter going through 3.1 innings. Madison Armstrong changed that in the fourth with a one-out double. She walked her second batter of the inning and loaded the bases.
 
She was able to get out of the inning with one run allowed from a sacrifice fly, but that was all the offense Western Carolina needed.
 
Sydney Fisher had two of the four Highlanders hits – the second coming in the fifth with two outs but she would stay put at first as an infield pop up ended the inning. She came back up to the plate with a golden opportunity in the seventh.
 
Radford was down to its final out in the 1-0 game when Sofia Tapia picked her fourth hit of the doubleheader with a single right past the pitcher's ankles. Lindsay Hunter walked and moved Tapia over to second for Fisher.
 
Fisher saw a pitch she liked, swung at it and put it into play. It was a dribbler right to the Catamount second baseman who tossed it to first for the final out of the game.
 
STAT OF THE GAME
Huffman ended the game retiring the final nine batters that came to the plate.
 
UP NEXT
Radford will have a little over a week off before traveling the Buies Creek, N.C., for the final series of the regular season on May 3.
 
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