A second sweep of West Virginia Tech Saturday afternoon moved
Campbellsville's softball team into a tie for first place in
the Mid-South Conference. The Tigers, 32-16 (19-5 MSC), are a game better than
Lindsey Wilson in the loss column, but have one fewer win, with four games remaining in the MSC
regular season. The Tigers play Tuesday at St. Catharine and Thursday
at Georgetown.
Campbellsville is 19-5, Lindsey 20-6 and Georgetown, after a loss to Cumberlands, 18-6.
The Tigers blanked the Golden Bears 8-0 in the first game and barely
edged Tech 4-3 in the second game after CU led 4-1 at the end of
three. After Campbellsville laced 11 hits in the first game their bats
were limited to four hits in game two, half as many at the Golden Bears.
In game one,
Allison Horton pitched a three-hitter and fanned six in six innings. The game was scoreless until the fourth frame when, as it turned out, the Tigers scored all the runs they would need.
Jordan Cornett,
Jennifer England,
Alex Jane Clemmons and Nichole Bohanon all had RBI in the game and
Katie Daniel's single in the sixth plated two runs.
England hit her third homer in two days when she led off the fourth. Then Bohanon's sacrifice fly scored Clemmons who had walked. In the fifth, Cornett went park, her first home run of the season, and then singles by
Bailey Dillender, England and Clemmons were wasted.
A five-run sixth produced the run-rule outcome. Bohanon scored on a passed ball and
Kacie Vincent stole home. After that, CU loaded the bases with a Cornett single and successive walks to England and Clemmons preceding Daniel's two-run safety.
Cassidy Kroeker gave up eight hits in the second game, but she did strike out six and only walked one as the Tigers secured the four-win weekend.
Campbellsville scored all its runs in the third after trailing 1-0.
Emma Napier singled, Cornett was hit by a pitch and England plated them both with a single. Two runs also scored when Daniel's grounder was misplayed.
Tech got three hits in the top of the seventh, but left two on base when Napier threw the final batter out at first.
The Tigers control their own destiny with four games remaining in the conference regular-season schedule. If they win out, they secure the top seed in the conference tournament , along with an outright MSC title.
