Campbellsville beat Georgetown 7-4 to gain a spot in finals of the Mid-South Softball Tournament Championship opposite Lindsey Wilson Saturday afternoon in Columbia. They even beat Lindsey Wilson 3-1 to force an if-necessary game.

But that's where Campbellsville's season ended, as Lindsey scored six unearned runs in the title game and beat the Tigers 7-4.

It was a wild finish to a 39-21 season as Campbellsville needed three consecutive wins to claim the automatic bid to the national tournament. And in the first two games, both wins, there were plenty of platitudes to pass around.



In the 7-4 victory over Georgetown, Alex Jane Clemmons had three hits, two of them homers and three RBI. In the 3-1 first-game win over Lindsey, Emma Napier had a two-run double and Allison Horton scattered six hits.

But in the title game the Campbellsville defense came unraveled right from the start as the Blue Raiders used two errors, a walk and a wild pitch around two hits, the haymaker being a grand slam homer by Kelly McCarty, to jump to a 5-0 lead they would never relinquish.

The Tigers closed the gap to 5-2 in the top of the second when Horton homered with Clemmons aboard. But they gave those two runs back in the bottom of the third. Horton, who pitched every inning of all three games, held Lindsey scoreless over the last three frames, but solo runs in the fifth and seventh were not enough.

Lindsey's Morgan Paschal gave way to Anyibell Ramirez after 1 1/3 innings and struck out 11 of the 19 batters she faced. Napier had a home run and a single for two RBI, Clemmons a double and Morgan Bullock a single and a double to account for Campbellsville's six hits.

In the first game against Lindsey, the Tigers broke open a scoreless game in the top of the third when Napier 's double was preceded by a Katie Daniel walk and a Kacie Vincent double. CU went up 3-0 in the fifth when Vincent's single plated Daniel who had also hit safely.

Lindsey stranded seven runners in the game and a sterling defensive play by Napier in the sixth may have staved off a potential Raider rally. Lindsey got two on with one out in the seventh, but Horton coaxed a fly ball from pinch hitter Lindsey Bridges and a grounder to third by Jordan Gilland.

Campbellsville earned the right to the championship matchup with a 7-4 win over Georgetown.

In addition to Clemmons' hot bat, Jennifer England had a two-RBI single. Daniel, Horton and Napier all had two-hit games and Jordan Cornett added a single for CU's 11 hits.

Campbellsville led 4-0  and 7-1 before allowing Georgetown a two-run sixth and a run in the seventh. Georgetown left 10 runners stranded, four in the last two innings.

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