LEBANON, Tenn. - Campbellsville (4-2) was able to win the first game of a twin bill Tuesday at Cumberland University, but the Lady Bulldogs (4-2) returned the favor in the nightcap. The Lady Tigers won 5-2 and then were beaten 6-1.
In the first game,
Bailey Dillender had three hits and a like number of RBI as CU picked up the win.
The Lady Tigers pounded out 12 hits, with Kristen Benton and
Sara Paragon also having two-hit games.
Emma Napier had a double and an RBI. Brook Boils was hit by a pitch in the sixth and was credited with an RBI.
CU got on the board first with two runs in the top of the third.
Heather Oakley led off with a double and after
Kacie Vincent sacrificed her to third,
Emma Napier's double plated her. Napier scored on Dillender's RBI-single.
Campbellsville went up 3-0 in the fifth when Dillender's second single plated Vincent, who had hit safely to lead off the inning.
Cumberland's Emily Nicholson knocked in Cumberland's only runs with a two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth. Dillender's solo home run in the top of the seventh closed out the scoring.
Courtney Turpin got the seven-inning win, allowed eight hits, walking one and striking out five. She worked out of jams in the second and fifth innings, but stratnded two Lady Bulldogs in each frame.
In game two, Campbellsville was five-hit by Courtney Maynard and the Lady Bulldogs chased starter
Martina Riney in the fourth and scored four more runs off
Taylor Wroe.
Kristen Benton had two single to lead the CU attack. Napier, Oakley and
Jennifer England had a singke each.
Cumberland scored in every inning but the second and fifth. A two-out error in the fifth led to an additional two runs for Cumberland when it appeared the Wroe would get out of the frame by only giving up one run.
Riney struck out two and gave up five hits. Wroe gave up four hits, the first one being a run-scoring single by Sarah Murray.
Campbellsville got two on in the second and sixth innings, but could not get the timely hit..
Campbellsville will travel to Decatur, Ala., this weekend and play two games each on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Alabama Arctic Blast, hosted by Shorter University (Ga.).