Jennifer England was 4 for 8 with two homers and seven RBI as the Tiger
softball team beat West Virginia Tech in a Saturday double header 11-3
and 8-0, both games in six innings.
The wins improve Campbellsville to 30-16 (16-5 MSC) and the Tigers
remain a game out of first place and a half-game out of second. They will
play Tech in a Sunday double header and then travel to St. Catharine
(Tuesday) and Georgetown (Thursday) to sew up their conference regular
season slate.
Campbellsville scored seven times in the first inning of the first game
and never looked back in the 11-3 win.
Allison Horton pitched a
four-hitter and struck out nine.
In the first inning, the first four batters reached base -
Emma Napier walked, and
Jordan Cornett and
Bailey Dillender singled with Dillender's scoring a run. England then blasted a three-run homer. With two out,
Katie Daniel singled and
Nicole Bohanon and
Kacie Vincent reached on errors, the latter allowing two runs to score. Then Napier singled in the seventh run.
Tech scored two runs in the second and one in the fourth before CU tallied four more times in the sixth. Vincent reached on a bunt single and Napier hit a two-run homer.
Stephanie Weathers then singled and England reach on a error. Weathers scored on a passed ball and an error on
Alex Jane Clemmons' grounder scored England.
In game two,
Cassidy Kroeker threw a two-hitter and fanned three. Her teammates scored one in the first, two in the third and three in the fourth before ending the run-rule game with two in the sixth.
Napier scored on England's single in the first. Dillender reached on an error and England plated her with a home run in the third. In the fifth, Dillender and Clemmons reached on errors and one run was plated by a Horton single. Then a double by Daniels scored two more runs. With two out in the sixth, Dillender hit a double and scored on England's single. Clemmons reached on a error and Horton's single scored the final run.
Campbellsville had 11 hits in each game. Napier was 4 for 7, Horton 3 for 7, Daniels 3 for 5 and Dillender 2-8. Cornet had two hits and Weathers and Vincent one each.
