CHARLESTON, S.C. – Brooklynn Brewington picked a good time for her first hit of Friday night's contest.

The junior infielder hit a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 11th, scoring Ashley Meckley in the process, as Charleston Southern defeated Radford in extra innings, 5-4, at the CSU Softball Field.

CSU took an early 2-0 lead on a Radford throwing error and a Madison Koger RBI single up the middle. The visiting Highlanders plated three in the third to take a 3-2 lead, but the Bucs tied the game in the fifth when Brewington reached on another Radford error.

Neither team scored another run until extra innings, when Radford's Destiny Freeman hit a solo homer over the wall in center to give the Highlanders a 4-3 lead in the eight. The Bucs tied the game once more in the bottom half of the inning on a Sarah Brown sacrifice fly before Brewington's base hit three innings later ended it.

Alyssa Heinrich picked up the win for the Bucs, allowing one hit in three innings of relief. Annah Junge went the first eight innings in the circle, allowing three earned runs with three strikeouts.
 

How They Scored

• Charleston Southern opened the scoring in the first inning when a Talia Douglas throwing error scored Brown from third.
• The Bucs added another run in the inning on Koger's RBI single up the middle, which scored Katelyn Norris.
• Radford did most of its damage in a three-run third. Abby Wilson hit a two-run single up the middle and Madison Canaday reached on a fielding error, which scored Douglas.
• CSU tied it up in the fifth when another Douglas throwing error allowed Norris to score.
• Radford took the lead once again in the eighth when Destiny Freeman belted a solo homer to straightaway center.
• A sacrifice fly off the bat of Brown in the bottom of the eighth plated Dominique Mannerino to tie the score once more.
• Brewington's walk-off single in the 11th scored Meckley from second and clinched the Bucs' first Big South win of the season.

News and Notes

• Four different Bucs produced multi-hit efforts in Friday's contest. Brown, Norris, Koger and Ashlyn Cribb had two hits apiece for CSU.
• Junge's 8.0 innings in the circle are a new career high, besting her previous mark of 7.0, which was accomplished twice.
• Junge's three strikeouts also matched her season high, which was set against Eastern Kentucky.
• Rhiana Hubbard made her first start of the season in center field, going 1-for-4 with a single in the fourth inning.
• Brewington has hits in seven of the first eight games to begin the 2021 season.
• Heinrich threw just 41 pitches in her 3.0 shutout innings of work, with 27 of those 41 finding the strike zone.
• Koger reached base safely a game-high four times, with a pair of base hits and a pair of walks.

Up Next
Charleston and Radford close their three-game series with a doubleheader Saturday afternoon at the CSU Softball Field. First pitch of the first game is slated for 1 p.m., with the second game set to begin approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first game.