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No. 17 Campbellsville drops baseball opener, 4-3

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Campbellsville University watched a two-run lead slip away late Friday in a 4-3 loss at Auburn University-Montgomery.

Rusty Devitt received the season-opening start after ending the 2010 season with an impressive appearance in the NAIA National Tournament opening round. The Seabeck, Wash., native struck out eight and allowed one earned run off four hits. He walked one.
 

After six, Devitt was done for the day and in position for his first win of the season, up 3-1, but the Senators took advantage of first-year Tiger pitchers Andrew Shoemaker and Jacob Cook in the seventh. The two transfer pitchers combined for three runs in the inning, two of which were earned by Shoemaker.

AUM's rally began with a lead-off pinch-hit single by Derek Webster. After a balk and pop fly to left, Webster advanced to third and later scored on an RBI base hit by Logan Remson. Three batters was all Shoemaker faced before Cook (0-1) entered and gave up a pinch-hit two-RBI single by Baxley Raines that put the Senators up for good.

Alex Tolmachoff pitched the Tigers out of the seventh and silenced AUM's bats in the eighth, but CU could not get anything going in the eighth or ninth.

Craig Miller set the Tigers down in order in the eighth, while Sam Judah also retired the CU hitters in the ninth to post his second save of the season.

Campbellsville collected all four of its hits in the first five innings, but took advantage of four errors by the Senators. Gabriel Briones and Jameel Ziadeh each had sacrifice fly RBIs in the win for CU, while Trent Seamons scored on an error in the fifth.

The 17th-ranked Tigers (0-1) travel to the northeast side of Alabama's capital city Saturday to meet No. 20 Faulkner University (9-1) in a non-conference doubleheader at 2 p.m. ET. The games will be played at the Harrison Baseball Complex on Faulkner's campus (5345 Atlanta Highway, Montgomery, Ala.).

It will be the ninth and 10th games of the season for Faulkner against a Mid-South Conference opponent. The Eagles swept a doubleheader against Pikeville College Feb. 5 and swept a four-game series against the 25th-ranked University of Rio Grande last weekend. Georgetown College was in town Friday.
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Players Mentioned

Jacob Cook

#3 Jacob Cook

RHP
Junior
Rusty Devitt

#28 Rusty Devitt

RHP
Junior
Trent Seamons

#17 Trent Seamons

OF
Junior
Andrew Shoemaker

#10 Andrew Shoemaker

LHP
Junior
Alex Tolmachoff

#40 Alex Tolmachoff

RHP
Junior
Jameel Ziadeh

#24 Jameel Ziadeh

OF
Senior

Players Mentioned

Jacob Cook

#3 Jacob Cook

Junior
RHP
Rusty Devitt

#28 Rusty Devitt

Junior
RHP
Trent Seamons

#17 Trent Seamons

Junior
OF
Andrew Shoemaker

#10 Andrew Shoemaker

Junior
LHP
Alex Tolmachoff

#40 Alex Tolmachoff

Junior
RHP
Jameel Ziadeh

#24 Jameel Ziadeh

Senior
OF