Radford scored six runs in the first inning en route to a 7-6 victory over High Point Saturday afternoon in Big South Conference baseball action at Dedmon Center Park.

The Panthers fell to 10-22 (1-6 in the Big South, while Radford improved to 6-15 (2-6).

Mark Fleisher (1-1) tossed seven innings, scattering seven hits and allowing five runs to garner his first victory of the season. Brett Leiberman came in for the final two outs of the game and fanned both batters he faced to earn his league-leading fifth save.

Toby Hoskins (1-2) lasted just one inning and allowed six runs on six hits and took the loss for HPU.

Offensively, the Highlanders collected all six of their hits in the first inning, as Phil Leake and Travis Motsinger held RU hitless over the final seven innings. Leake yielded just one run while striking out five over 5.2 innings of hitless ball.

In the Radford first, leadoff batter Nat Hodges reached when he was hit by a pitch, and was followed by four straight singles to quickly make it 3-0. Mike Tarbox followed Scott Gvozdas' sacrifice bunt with a two-run single up the middle for a 5-0 lead. Advancing to second on the throw to the plate, Tarbox moved to third with a stolen base and scored on Shaun House's single up the middle for a 6-0 lead.

The Panthers started chipping away at the RU lead as Jayson Hoffman, whose double delivered the game-winning run in the 10th inning Friday afternoon, put High Point on the board in the second with a two-run double to right field scoring Kemp Smith and Ken Keesee to cut the lead to 6-2.

HPU pulled within 6-3 in the third, scoring an unearned run on a dropped pop up to second while an RU error in the fourth gave HPU another unearned run and pulled the Panthers within two at 6-4. A bunt base-hit by Rey Rojas and an RBI ground out to short by Nick Thompson brought HPU within 6-5.

The Highlanders would add a much-needed insurance run in the sixth as House led off the inning with a walk and scored on a wild pitch to give RU a two-run cushion, 7-5.

The teams play the rubber game of the three-game series Sunday at Dedmon Center Park. First pitch is scheduled for 1:00 pm.