Felix Breaks Strikeout Record as Highlanders Sweep Appalachian State; Smith and Wohlgemuth Move Up on Career Lists

Boone, N.C. - Radford pitchers Breanna Felix (Spring Valley, Calif.) and Ashley Taylor (Ringgold, Va.) combined to scatter just three runs over 14 innings of work to lead the Highlanders to a doubleheader sweep over Appalachian State Tuesday afternoon in non-conference softball action.

Game One Box

Game Two Box

Radford took game one 4-2, while edging out the Mountaineers 4-1 in the second contest. In game one, Felix broke the single-season strikeout record of 139, held by Jennifer Bosley (2003), with nine strikeouts and currently has 144 this year.

With three RBI on the day, Ashley Smith (Roanoke, Va.) surpassed Shelly Guy (1998-01) for second on RU's career RBI list with 111. She is 10 shy of breaking the record of 120 held by Melissa Pickel (1995-97).

In game one, Radford used one hit and three Appalachian errors to plate three runs in the top of the fourth inning. The big blow came when Smith singled to left field to score Lara Wohlgemuth (Centreville, Va.), and an error by ASU's Tiffany Hensley allowed Ashley Carlson (Chesapeake, Va.) to score from first base. Smith then scored on Taylor¹s sacrifice fly to give RU a 3-0 lead. Wohlgemuth who reach on a walk, tied Pickel for second on the career walks list with 65. She needs two more to break the record.

A solo home run by Sara Beth Clayton (Chesapeake, Va.) in the fifth inning stretched the Highlanders' lead to 4-0 before ASU mounted a rally. Lindsay Glover singled to start the seventh inning and was brought home on Kristyn Hurt's two-run blast to right field.

Felix (19-10) was able to get out of the jam, however, to close out ASU and earn her 19th victory of the season and the 30th of her career. She struck out nine while scattering four hits over seven innings. She is now just two victories shy of breaking the single-season win record at RU.

Jennifer Hurley took the loss for Appalachian, falling to 6-15 on the season.

Taylor (9-8) scattered four hits while striking out five in game two. Amanda Walling's (Summerville, S.C.) two-run single in the first inning put the Highlanders ahead for good. Smith added a pair of insurance runs in the fifth inning with a two-run home run, her sixth on the year.

Radord's two round trippers on the day pushed its total to 26, just one shy of tying the school record set in 1996.

Appalachian¹s only run came in the sixth inning when Mary Lutz led off the inning with a single and eventually came around to score.

The Mountaineers¹ Meredith O¹Connor allowed four runs (three earned) in the circle and was saddled with the defeat.

Radford returns home to host Virginia on Thursday at 3 pm.