Bison Earn First Win of the Season; Split Doubleheader at Radford

Saturday, February 21

Radford, Va.

12 p.m.

Bucknell University

0-5

Radford

5-1

Bucknell

Radford

Photo by: Alisa Mitchell

Bison Earn First Win of the Season; Split Doubleheader at Radford

2/21/2026 8:10:00 PM | Baseball

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RADFORD, Va. – The Bucknell baseball team picked up its first win of the season at Radford as the Bison and Highlanders split a doubleheader on Saturday at Sherman Carter Memorial Stadium. Bucknell (1-5) bounced back with a 3-1 win in the latter game after Radford (5-2) walked off the Bison in extra innings.

Bucknell earned a 4-1 victory behind a dominant pitching performance by freshman Brady Hoar. Hoar gave the Bison a quality start as he tossed six innings of one-hit ball in just his second career start. Hoar allowed just one unearned run and struck out three batters. Fellow freshman Tyler Seidman pitched two scoreless innings in relief. Seidman allowed two hits and surrendered a walk, but fanned four batters to strand all three runners. Hadley Maxwell came in to earn the save with a three-up, three-down ninth inning.

Bucknell's four runs came on nine hits, including Michael Trommer's second homer of the year. Freshman Garrett Mathias's RBI in the third inning went down as the winning run as the Bison pitching staff closed out the game.

The Bison got the offense going early in the first game, scoring nine runs on 14 hits in the ballgame. The Bison held three different leads, but Radford overcame each one before belting a walk-off home run in the 10th inning to take the game 11-9.

Junior transfer Ty Lagoni was hot at the plate, going 5-for-10 with four RBIs. All for of his RBIs came in the first game, including his first home run in Orange and Blue.

Trommer had two hits in each game with eight total bases. Trommer doubled in the first game and his homer in the ninth inning of the second game gave the Bison some added insurance.

Junior transfer Zach Selfon extended his hitting streak with a hit in each of his first six games for the Bison. Hitting out of the leadoff spot, Selfon had three hits and three runs scored.

Bucknell used the longball in game one as Ryan Facinelli and Michael Chiaravallo joined Lagoni in hitting two-run homers for six of Bucknell's runs.

John Calabrese went 1-for-2 at the plate in game one, knocking in an RBI in a pinch-hit at-bat. Andrew Swenson drove in a run in game two going 2-for-3 at the plate.

Game One: Radford 11, Bucknell 9 (10 innings)

The Bison bats got going at the plate for game two of the series, but the Highlanders overcame three different deficits before Brady Powell walked it off with a two-run home run in the 10th inning.

The Bison jumped out to a 4-0 lead after the top of the fourth inning as Facinelli and Chiaravallo hit a pair of two-run homers. Radford exploded in the bottom half of the inning for four runs to quickly tie the ballgame 4-4.

Lagoni gave the Bison the lead right back, driving in Selfon who singled in the inning. Radford again had the answer with a two-run fifth inning of their own to tie the game back up 6-6.

Bucknell led off the seventh inning with four consecutive hits to take back its two-run lead. Selfon and Trommer both singled for their second hits of the day, and Lagoni drove in his third RBI with a single. Calabrese came in the game to pinch hit, and the move paid off as the sophomore doubled to bring in another run to make it 8-6.

Lagoni drove in another run in the eighth to extend Bucknell's lead to 9-6. Billy Fluharty doubled and Trommer was intentionally walked to set up a double play with one out. It did not matter as Lagoni knocked in his fourth RBI of the day with another single.

The Highlanders immediately responded with a three-run frame in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game up once more at 9-9. Mason Self and Eli Hudgins both hit solo home runs to cut the lead to one, and a couple walks and a single set up and bases loaded hit-batter to bring in the run. The Bison got out of the inning leaving the bases loaded before Radford could take the lead.

The Bison went three-up, three down in the ninth and 10th innings before Powell ended it with his home run in extra innings.

Lagoni was 3-for-5 at the plate with four RBIs in a big day for the junior transfer. Selfon was 2-for-6 at the plate with two runs scored. Selfon extended his hitting streak to five games for the Bison.

Trommer was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk. Garrett Mathias, Deacon Bowne and Andrew Swenson all had a hit in the ballgame.

Everett Garber got through three scoreless innings before the Highlanders tagged him in the fourth. He finished his day with four runs, three unearned, on five hits.

Game Two: Bucknell 4, Radford 1

Facinelli led off the second inning with a triple to get a runner in scoring position. Radford work two strikeouts but a two-out infield single by the speedy Swenson got the Bison on the board first in game two.

Selfon and Lagoni both singled in the third inning, and a nice piece of hitting by Mathias drove in the run on a groundout to double Bucknell's lead.

Radford's only run of the game was an unearned run that came in the fifth inning. The frame started off with an error, and the runner later came into score on a sacrifice fly.

The Bison quickly restored the two-run lead with another score in the sixth inning. Luke Nascimento drew a walk and Swenson doubled to put both in scoring position. Fluharty then brought home the run on a sacrifice fly to make it 3-1.

Radford put runners on second and third with one out in the seventh inning after an error and a double. Seidman fanned a batter before the righthander forced a groundball to end the inning. The freshman stranded two runners again in the eighth inning.

Maxwell forced two fly balls and earned a strikeout in a 1-2-3 ninth inning for his first save of the season.

Bucknell is back on the road for a single game against Pitt on Wednesday at 3 p.m. The Bison then return to Depew Field at Marren Park for a three-game series against Merrimack beginning on Friday at 2 p.m.