With a sweep of St. Catharine on Tuesday, the Tiger softball team has an
opportunity to secure a regular-season Mid-South title with a similar
outcome Thursday at Georgetown.
Campbellsville staked both its pitchers with three-run leads in the
first innings and never looked back in downing the Patriots 7-1 and then
10-2 in five innings.
The Tigers did it with the long ball, going yard five times - accounting
for 12 runs of their 17 total in the double header.
Allison Horton,
Bailey Dillender,
Jennifer England,
Emma Napier and
Alex Jane Clemmons
went yard for the Tigers, Clemmons had two homers and accounted for six
runs - one being a grand slam.
Horton pitched a four-hitter in the first game and struck out seven and didn't walk a batter. Campbellsville was leading 5-0 after five innings before SCC dotted the scoreboard.
With two out in the first and the bases loaded,
Morgan Bullock singled in two runs. Napier scored on a misplayed ball off
Jordan Cornett's bat.
CU added runs in the third - a leadoff homer by Dillender - and the fifth - a homer by Horton.
In the seventh, Cornett singled and England homered to end the scoring.
In game two,
Cassidy Kroeker gave up eight hits and pitched out a couple of jams. She fanned six and didn't issue any free passes.
Napier was a double away from hitting for the cycle. She led off the game with a triple and then with two away England singled and Clemmons pounded a two-run shot over the left-field fence.
The Tigers scored twice more in the second, a Napier homer following
Katie Daniels' single. Campbellsville posted a five-spot in the fifth highlighted by Clemmons' four-run shot. Dillender hit an RBI-single that plated Napier.
Campbellsville 35-17 (21-5 MSC) ends its conference slate Thursday at Georgetown. Lindsey Wilson has a 20-6 MSC record with two games remaining against Cumberlands. Georgetown is 18-6 with games against CU and Pikeville.