PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Don't look now, but guess who's on a five-game winning streak?
Campbellsville managed a 2-1 first-game win and then exploded for 11
runs in the second game for an 11-0 win, improving to 13-18 (5-3 MSC)
and a sweep of the Pikeville Lady Bears.
Courtney Turpin fired a four-hitter and struck out eight in the first game, but it took a
Morgan Bullock grounder to score
Natalie Duncan, who opened the fourth with a double, for the winning run.
Other than Duncan's double, the Lady Tigers rapped out only three singles by
Alex Jane Clemmons,
Jennifer England and
Jordan Cornett. Clemmons singled in the first and eventually scored on a Pikeville bobble.
In game two,
Martina Riney,
Taylor Wroe and
Leslie Hastings combined on a two-hitter as they shut down Pikeville for the 10-run-rule shutout. Piney got the win in three innings of work. She relinquished one hit and recorded five Ks. Wroe pitched an inning and a third with two strikeouts and Hastings recorded the final two outs.
Clemmons had two hits, one a home run, scored twice and knocked in two runs. CU had two big innings, with four runs in the third and the fifth frames.
Kacie Vincent reached safely twice and scored once,
Bailey Dillender had a single and an RBI, and Duncan had a two-hit game, scored twice and plated a run. Bullock,
Stephanie Weathers and
Brooke Boils all had singles. Weathers and Boils scored and knocked in runs. Bullock had two RBI.
Campbellsville travels to St. Catharine on Tuesday for a double header, first game 2 p.m.