Campbellsville salvaged a split with Lindsey Wilson on Tuesday in Columbia, but gave up the league lead and trails the Blue Raiders by one game in the Mid-South standings. The split also ties CU with Georgetown for second place. Lindsey is 18-6 and Campbellsville and Georgetown are 15-5.

The Tigers lost the first game 7-3 after leading 3-1 after 3 ½ innings. In the second game, CU went up 3-1 and 7-1 before winning 8-2.



In the first game Lindsey's Anyibell Ramirez (15-5) kept the Tigers off  balance, as she gave up only two hits, both homers, and struck out 13 CU batters. Campbellsville got a solo shot from Katie Daniels in the third and Alex Jane Clemmons plated Jennifer England in the fourth, who had walked.

Ramirez walked five Campbellsville batters, but the Tigers only stranded two in the game which was blown open by Lindsey in the fifth inning. Trailing 3-2, the Blue Raiders tagged losing pitcher Allison Horton (10-8) with five hits with a walk sandwiched in-between in the fifth. Jamie Williams hit a soft pop up to the infield with two outs that no one could get a glove on and that opened the flood gates. Ally Goniea slapped a two-run double to left center that gave Lindsey all the scoring they would need.

Ramirez did not allow a base runner in the last two Tiger at-bats.

In game two, the Tigers chased Lindsey Wilson starter Morgan Paschall (16-5) with three runs in the first and four more in the third. CU never figured Ramirez out, though, as she came in in relief and gave up but two hits the rest of the way, one a solo home run by Bailey Dillender. She struck out seven in her four innings of work.

The offense the Tigers lacked in the first game was doubled in the first inning of the second game. Four successive singles by Emma Napier, Jordan Cornett, Dillender and England scored three runs. Horton hit a sacrifice fly for the fourth run.

In the third, Cornett doubled, Dillender singled and England got a single (robbed of the home run) on a ball that hit the top of the center-field fence and bounced back into play. Dillender and England had RBI and after Clemmons hit safely and Horton sacrifice bunt put everyone in scoring position, Morgan Bullock's single plated two more runs. England had two RBI and Dillender three in the game.

Cassidy Kroeker (7-4) scattered seven hits and struck out three in her seven innings in the circle

Campbellsville has a four-game set with West Virginia Tech on Friday and Saturday before going on the road Tuesday to St. Catharine and to Georgetown on Thursday to complete its regular season conference slate. Lindsey has double headers with Pikeville and Cumberlands remain on its MSC schedule. Georgetown has to play Cumberlands, Campbellsville and Pikeville.


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