DECATUR, Ala. - Campbellsville softball arrived in Alabama on Thursday two games above .500 and when it left the Heart of Dixie on Saturday the Lady Tigers were in exactly the same position.



CU (7-5) split two more games on Saturday in the Alabama Arctic Blast hosted by Shorter College, picking up a 3-2 win over Trevecca and then dropping a heart-breaking 5-4 decision to Reinhardt.

In the first game, Campbellsville made the most of four hits. The Lady Tigers tied the game at 1-1 in the second when Heather Oakley and Sara Paragon reached on errors and were advanced by a Kacie Vincent bunt. Oakley scored on the play.

In the bottom of the third, Jordan Cornett led off with a single and scored on a Bailey Dillender double. Alyssa Barker coaxed a walk out of Travecca's pitcher, Natalie Papini, and Dillender scored on a passed ball.

Trevecca would score a solo run in the top of the seventh, but left a runner on base when Lindsey Stephens grounded to short.

Courtney Turpin (3-3) pitched an eight-hitter, striking out three and stranding seven runners.

Vincent and Dillender had RBI and Dillender, Vincent, Napier and Cornett all hit safely.

In game two, the Lady Tigers out-hit Reinhardt 8-6, but three errors proved costly.

Reinhardt scored three times in the top of the fourth only to see CU even the score with two in the fourth and one in the fifth. Reinhart's two runs were aided by two CU errors.

In the fourth, Nicole Bohanon, pinch running for Dillender, scored on a triple by Jennifer England. Then Turpin bunted and England scored on the squeeze play.

In the fifth, Napier homered.

Reinhart scored two runs in top if the sixth that proved to be the difference.

In the bottom of the sixth the Lady Tigers loaded the bases with no outs, but could not push across a run.

In the seventh, Vincent reached on an error and scored on a Dillender single.

England had a two-hits game, one RBI and scored once. Other than Napier's homer, the other five hits were singles by, Cornett, Dillender, Kristen Benton, Barker and Turpin.

Martina Riney absorbed the loss, allowing six hits and fanning four. She was relieved in the seventh by Taylor Wroe, who retired Reinhardt in order.

Campbellsville will open its conference schedule on Saturday with a two-game set at St. Catharine, beginning at 1:00.