[bigsmooth]

the battle for first place in the big south starts friday with a doubleheader starting at 2pm, and a single game saturday at 12 noon. radford 34-20 overall and 7-2 in the big south is coming off a 6-0 shutout of ETSU and has a great pitcher in ashley taylor, who has had good success against the flames. get out and support the ladies.

[bigsmooth]

game 1 to the flames 1-0. terra lowe outduels ashley taylor with a 3 hitter. coutrney johnson hit a home run for the flames.

[BJWilliams]

This is the sort of thing that having matchups against Tennessee was made for. Excellent job...If we can get the sweep that would be HUGE!

[thesportscritic]

lost the second game 7-6. The umpires were horrible on both sides. A couple of defensive mistakes cost us the game.

[bigsmooth]

the ladies drop a hard fought 7-6 game, in the second game of the doubleheader. the rubber match is tomm.

[bigsmooth]

here is the wrap-up from the doubleheader split

http://libertyflames.com/index.cfm?PID= ... 2&TeamID=2

http://libertyflames.com/index.cfm?PID= ... 3&TeamID=2

[Sly Fox]

And from Chris:

LU splits softball doubleheader with Radford

By Chris Lang
Lynchburg News & Advance
April 21, 2007

No, Courtney Johnson didn't spend the hours before Liberty's softball doubleheader with Radford on Friday guzzling protein shakes. Though that might explain how a sub-.200 hitter with one career extra-base hit could club two home runs against two of the Big South's best pitchers.

"Actually, I drank a smoothie," she said after the teams split, with Liberty winning 1-0 in the opener and Radford holding off the Flames 7-6 in the second game. "I've had a stomachache ever since."

Click Here for Full Story

[BJWilliams]

Man for my first career home run Id call Coach Dunton and see about cartwheel lessons!

[BJWilliams]

Liberty slaughter rules Radford 9-1 to take the series 2 games to 1

[thesportscritic]

its always nice to kick the ^)(*^)(* out of radford.

[Stevev]

LU is now in the drivers seat for the BSC regular season title. All we have left in the conference is Coastal and BSU.

[bigsmooth]

a great weekend for the ladies especially hitting ashley taylor hard and getting some confidence against a pitcher they had very little success with. indeed a big weekend series with coastal coming up

http://libertyflames.com/index.cfm?PID= ... 7&TeamID=2

[BJWilliams]

a great weekend for the ladies especially hitting ashley taylor hard and getting some confidence against a pitcher they had very little success with. indeed a big weekend series with coastal coming up

http://libertyflames.com/index.cfm?PID= ... 7&TeamID=2

Indeed...Taylor was conference pitcher of the week the past two weeks and Bre Felix the week before that and we got out and drill them both