DANVILLE, Ky. - Campbellsville scored 10 unanswered runs in the last four innings to race past Rio Grande, 12-5, on Saturday and reach the finals of the Mid-South Conference Softball Tournament as the winner's bracket representative.



Trailing 5-2 after three innings, the Lady Tigers scored three in the fourth, one in the fifth, four in the sixth and two in the seventh to salt away their 33rd win of the season. The Lady Tigers have turned a 4-14 start to the season into 33-23 slate, winning 16 of their last 19 games.

Alex Jane Clemmons, Jennifer England and Jordan Cornett combined for eight of CU's 12 hits off  Rio pitcher Anna Smith. Clemmons had two homers and 4 RBI, England a homer and two singles and 3 RBI, and Cornett two singles and a double and an RBI on a fly ball to right field in the fourth.

Clemmons led the game off with a first-pitch home run and a bases-loaded walk in the second spotted CU a 2-0 lead. But that was short lived.

Rio chased starter Courtney Turpin with two runs in the second and three in the third. Turpin gave up a leadoff homer to Anna Smith and then an error by shortstop Brooke Boils allowed the tying run.

In the third, Turpin gave up four successive hits, the big one being a three-run double by Amber Myers.

But Turpin and fellow freshman, Martina Riney, have been yin to the other's yang - Turpin rescuing Riney the night before and Riney setting the Red Storm down on two hits the rest of Saturday. Riney relieved Turpin with one out in the third and immediately struck out Allison Mills and then coaxed a fly out to left from Jessica Gall.

After that it was all Lady Tigers. CU used  two Rio errors to start the fourth and plated a run on Cornett's fly ball and tacked on two more with Clemmons' center-field homer that just barely cleared the wall.

Jennifer England led off the fifth with a homer to left and in the sixth the flood gates really opened.

Boils reached on an error, Cornett doubled and Clemmons walked. Alyssa Barker, pinch-hitting for Kacie Vincent with the bases jammed, hit a grounder to shortstop and the ensuing throw to the plate was mishandled, allowing two runs. Bailey Dillender's single plated two more runs.

Campbellsville tacked on two more runs in the top of the seventh when England's single scored Cornett and Clemmons. Becca Cook had a single in the second.

The Lady Tigers will play for the MSC Tournament Championship on Sunday at 11:00 at Millennium Park against Lindsey Wilson, a 4-0 winner over Rio Grande, in the loser's bracket final. An if-necessary game will follow at 1:00.