Highlanders Claim Second Seed for Big South Tournament

Radford, Va. - Radford’s softball team will enter the Big South Tournament as the No. 2 seed after finishing second in the regular season, one game behind top seeded Winthrop (36-21-1, 9-3 Big South). The Highlanders (38-23, 8-4), who had their best Big South finish since 1999, will face No. 7 Charleston Southern (18-39, 1-9) in Game Two on Thursday at 5 pm.

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Game One will feature fourth-seeded Coastal Carolina (22-23, 6-6) vs. fifth-seeded Birmingham-Southern (24-29, 5-7), who won the tiebreaker with Liberty (20-30, 5-7) due to splitting the regular season with Winthrop. The sixth-seeded Lady Flames will square off against third-seeded Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (35-8, 6-4) in Game Three.

The first three games on Thursday will take place at 5:00 pm, followed by Game Four, Game Five and Game Six at 7:00 pm. Game Four will pit No. 1 Winthrop vs. the winner of the Coastal Carolina/Birmingham-Southern match-up, the winner of the Radford/Charleston Southern meeting will take on the winner of the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi/Liberty contest in Game Five, while Game Six features the loser of the Radford/Charleston Southern game vs. the loser of the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the first consolation meeting.

The remaining consolation games and winner's bracket semifinals will be played Friday, while the Championship Game begins at 3:00 pm on Saturday. Every game of the 2005 Tournament can be viewed via LiveStats, available at BigSouthSports.com. The winner of the 2005 Big South Conference Softball Championship will receive an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament, which will begin Friday, May 20 at yet-to-be-determined campus sites.