Virginia beat Indiana 8-7 in the Knoxville Regional on Reagan Hickey’s RBI single in the eighth inning, finishing a back-and-forth NCAA softball tournament game that kept swinging one way and then the other.

Indiana led 3-0, 5-3 and 7-5, but Virginia answered each time, tying it at 3-3, 5-5 and 7-5 before finally taking the lead for good. Jade Hylton powered the comeback with two home runs, drove in five runs and scored the winning run, while Ellie Goins hit two home runs for Indiana in the loss.

The game was part of the Knoxville Regional in NCAA softball tournament play, and it added another tight finish to a day that also included regional results such as South Florida over Washington, Mississippi State over Saint Mary’s, South Carolina over Cal State Fullerton and Texas Tech over Marist.

What made Virginia’s rally matter was not just the final score, but the repeated pressure it absorbed and answered. Indiana kept forcing the Cavaliers back into chase mode, and Virginia kept finding a way to pull even before Hickey’s single ended it in the eighth.

For Indiana, Goins’ two-homer performance was enough to keep the Hoosiers in front at several points, but not enough to survive a Virginia lineup that kept landing its biggest blows when the game was slipping away. Hylton’s pair of homers gave Virginia the power to stay close; Hickey’s hit gave it the result.