RADFORD, Va. – Virginia Tech baseball won its fifth straight nonconference game on Wednesday night as the Hokies swept their season series against Radford with an 8-6 victory at Carter Memorial Stadium.
Nick Biddison led four Hokies with multi-hit games, as he banged out three hits, including a solo home run, and had a team-high three RBI. Nick Owens also had three hits and two RBI, while Jack Owens and Kerry Carpenter each added two hits. Dalton Harum crossed the plate a game-high three times.
The Hokies opened the game with a pair of runs in the first and added a single tally in the second. Jack Owens singled to open the night and scored on a Luke Horanski double. Horanski also crossed the plate on a double, as Carpenter registered his team-leading 41st RBI with the hit.
Biddison gave Tech a 3-0 advantage with an RBI single that scored Harum, who was hit by a pitch and moved to second on a Nick Owens single. Harum, who reached base four times without a hit Tuesday night versus VMI (3 BBs/1 HBP), was hit again in the fourth and scored again on Nick Owen's second hit of the game that made it 4-1.
However, Radford (21-20) used a pair of home runs to first get on the board, and then, to take its only lead. Garrett Matheny hit a solo home run in the home half of the third and Clayton Baine's three-run shot in the fifth capped a four-run inning put the Highlanders up 5-4.
Biddison tied the game with an RBI single in the sixth and added his seventh home run of the year in the eighth that gave Tech a little more insurance at 8-5. In between Biddison's second and third hits of the night, Harum and Nick Owens had each drove in a run in the seventh frame that put the Hokies up two.
Zach Brzykcy tossed three frames in relief and struck out five as he improved to 3-0 on the mound and Jaison Heard got the final four outs, including ending a bases-loaded threat with a strikeout, his first of two, in the eighth, to earn his third save.
Up Next
The Hokies (24-18) leave for the Sunshine State on Thursday and will open a three-game ACC series at Miami on Friday evening in Coral Gables, Florida. First pitch at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field is set for 7 p.m.
Gallery: (4/24/2019) 2019 BASEBALL AT RADFORD