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Box Score 2 CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. - Campbellsville University strung together 11 runs off 18 hits in a doubleheader sweep of Mid-Continent University on Tuesday at Tiger Baseball Field. The back-to-back wins are the first consecutive wins for the Tigers since sweeping a four-game set against Georgetown College the first two days of April.
In game one,
Andrew Shoemaker pitched six innings to record his second win of the season, 4-1, with the help of
Jacob Cook who closed the game for his first save. Game two went to undefeated Tiger pitcher
Ryan Richardson (3-0), who carried a no-hitter into the fourth inning of a 7-2 win.
Campbellsville pushed across a run in each of the first three innings of the first game and scored one in the fifth.
Gibby Briones, who was only 1-for-1 in the game, led CU in RBIs by driving in the Tigers' first run with a sac fly and singled in a run in the third inning. He had a sacrifice bunt in the fifth that put
Luke Gadow in scoring position for
Michael Durham's RBI single and the Tigers' final run of the game.
Anthony Jakosa drove in
Jameel Ziadeh in the second inning for CU's other run of the game.
Mid-Continent's only run in the first game also came in the second inning, tying the game 1-1 before Jakosa regained the lead for CU. Erick Holt, who led MCU with a 2-for-2 day, drove in Trevor Buford for the Cougars' run.
In the second game, Campbellsville took an early 4-0 lead and never looked back. Leadoff hitter
Rylan Chin scored the Tigers' first run on a two-RBI double by
Craig Edwards, and he led CU offensively with a 3-for-4 game, scoring twice and driving in two runs. Defensively, he led the team with four assists at second base, but did have an error in the fourth that led to MCU's first run.
After Edwards' double in the first,
Jameel Ziadeh recorded an RBI single and later scored with the bases loaded when
Antony Rossetto was hit by a pitch. All four runs in the opening inning were earned by Kyle Hall, who picked up his first loss of the season.
In the second inning,
Gabriel Arcoleo drove in Chin to make it 5-0, while CU stretched its lead to 7-0 in the third with a two-RBI single by Chin.
In the top of the fourth, Lance Davis broke up Richardson's no-hit attempt with two outs to score Nathan Lawrenece, who reached base on an error. The Cougars' second run was also unearned, after
Drew Pettit loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh with a throwing error and two singles. He then walked pinch-hitter Taylor Wortham to score Sam Cheng. Pettit worked out of the jam by striking out Cameron Kimball with a 90 mile per hour fastball that caught the pinch hitter looking on a 1-2 count.
Offensively in the two games, Chin and Ziadeh led CU with three hits each. Other Tigers with multiple hits on the day were Lapchak, Edwards and Durham. Six Tigers recorded just one hit, including pinch hitter
Luke Hawkins, who recorded his first hit of the season. The Lawrenceburg, Ky., native is now 1-for-1 in pinch hit performances this season and 1-of-4 overall at the plate in 2011.
Campbellsville (26-17) will turn around and play its fourth-straight day of baseball Wednesday as it hosts No. 8 Union College for a non-conference game at 6 p.m. CU is looking for its first win against an NAIA Top 10 opponent this season, as it is 0-4 against other current Top 10 teams Cumberland University and Auburn University Montgomery.
