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Winner Winthrop WINTHROP 16-18, 5-6 BSC
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Radford RAD 17-21, 7-4 BSC
Winner
Winthrop WINTHROP
16-18, 5-6 BSC
10
Final
5
Radford RAD
17-21, 7-4 BSC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E
Winthrop WINTHROP 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 5 10 21 1
Radford RAD 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 15 2

W: WATSON, M. (8-3) L: Huffman, Kayla (9-10)

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Winthrop WINTHROP 16-19, 5-7 BSC
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Winner Radford RAD 18-21, 8-4 BSC
Winthrop WINTHROP
16-19, 5-7 BSC
0
Final
8
Radford RAD
18-21, 8-4 BSC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Winthrop WINTHROP 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
Radford RAD 0 1 5 2 X 8 8 0

W: Marvin, Jessie (8-9) L: ROY, B. (3-4)

Game Recap: Softball |

RADFORD DROPS 11-INNING CONTEST, BOUNCES BACK TO RUN-RULE WINTHROP IN FIVE



RADFORD, Va. – Two games and 15.5 total innings were played at the Radford Softball Stadium on Saturday. The first was an 11-inning contest where Winthrop came out on top, 10-5, and the second was a series-clinching 8-0 victory by Radford in five innings.
 
GAME ONE
Sydney Fisher was the top performer in both dugouts as she tallied a career-high five hits. She went 5-for-6 in the game with a double and two runs scored.
 
Despite Fisher's career day at the plate, Winthrop one upped her with 21 hits. The 21 hits are the most Radford's given up all season. Seven of those hits came in the 11th inning when the game was tied at five. The Eagles scored five runs in the inning and took a 10-5 lead.
 
The Highlanders had a pair of runners aboard in the bottom of the frame but couldn't get a run to cross the plate.
 
Radford was one out away from picking up a victory when Ashley Westbrooks hit an 0-1 pitch to left field that found its way over the fence for a solo home run. That tied the game at five in the seventh.
 
The Highlanders fell behind 2-0 early in the contest but cut the deficit in half as Talia Douglas drove in Fisher with a bunt single in the first inning. Hannah Medlam gave Radford the lead with a two-run triple – her team-leading third of the season – in the second inning.
 
Maggie Rowe provided an insurance run with a home run to center field in the third. That created a two-run lead for the Highlanders, 4-2. Then the Highlanders ran into some trouble in the fifth inning as Winthrop led off with back-to-back singles by Blake Wallert and Morgan Lowers. The duo eventually scored on a Kelly Romine single and tied the game at four.
 
Mundy answered with her second RBI in the series driving in Douglas with a single in the bottom of the fifth.
 
After Winthrop tied it up in the seventh neither team could add a run until the 11th. The Eagles had the best chance but a great defensive play in the ninth inning preserved the tie. Westbrooks doubled to left center with a runner on second but Medlam picked up the ball threw it to Douglas, who threw it home to Rowe and the senior made the tag at the plate keeping the score at bay.
 
STAT OF THE GAME
Fisher's five hits ties a single-game record for Radford. She becomes just the third player to do so since 2009. The first to do it was Melissa Pickel in 1996 and the second was Leigh Godfrey in 2009.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
The Highlander put up 15 hits in the game with 1/3 coming from Fisher. Mundy and Medlam tied a career-high with three hits, while Medlam picked up a pair of RBIs. The top four hitters in the lineup for Winthrop had 14 of the 21 hits with six RBIs and eight runs scored.
 
GAME TWO
After the performance in the final inning of game one, the Highlanders had one thing on their minds. That was winning the game and taking the series.
 
Jessie Marvin was all in and only allowed three hits throughout the game. One came in the final inning, but it also gave the chance for the Radford defense to turn its second double play of the game.
 
The Highlander offense came to play in the series finale as well. That was evident after Hunter Mundy blasted a solo home run to right center field in the second inning which gave Radford a 1-0 lead.
 
Radford took it to another level in the third inning increasing its lead to 6-0. A walk, hit by pitch and a fielder's choice loaded the bases for Radford before Maggie Rowe drew a walk and drove in Medlam. The Highlander lead grew to 2-0.
 
Sofia Tapia plated two more with a single to center field and one batter later, Ellie Rowe drove in a run with an infield single while an error on the same play allowed the fifth and final run of the inning to score. All five runs scored in the inning came with two outs.
 
Just two runs away from the eight-run rule, back-to-back singles by Fisher and Medlam put the two runs needed aboard with no outs in the fourth. After both runners moved into scoring position, Douglas made sure they came home with a single up the middle.
 
Marvin entered the circle in the fifth inning and gave Radford its first shutout of the season.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
Douglas and Tapia gave Radford four of its seven RBIs. Marvin pitched five innings with only three hits allowed and one strikeout. The sophomore pitched her first complete game shutout as a Highlander. She also picked up her eighth win of the season.
 
STAT OF THE GAME
Eight of the nine players in the batting order reached base with a hit, while seven of the nine players scored a run. Medlam was the only player to score a pair of runs.
 
TWEET OF THE DAY  
UP NEXT
Radford will travel to Durham, N.C., to face Duke in a Tuesday night matchup at 6 p.m.
 
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