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Box Score 2 CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. - Power hitting and control pitching gave Campbellsville University a boost Monday, as the Tigers completed a four-game sweep of West Virginia Tech with another doubleheader win 13-3 and 7-0.
Campbellsville used four home runs in the two games to score seven of its runs and also collected six doubles and a triple on the day. The Tigers also took advantage of eight WVU Tech errors.
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Rusty Devitt (1-0) shined for the Tigers on the mound, pitching six no-hit innings before closing the day with a two-hit shutout and 12 strikeouts. In game one, Tyler Roberts (2-1) recorded the win in five innings of work, allowing five hits and three unearned runs.
Sitting at 25-6, the Tigers match their best mid-season mark since their NAIA World Series run in 2009.
The Tigers have now won 12 straight against the Golden Bears, going back to the first round of the 2008 Mid-South Conference Tournament.
Campbellsville will travel to Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky., for a non-conference game Wednesday, March 28 at 3 p.m. EDT.
GAME 1 - Campbellsville 13, WVU Tech 3
After allowing an unearned run in the first inning to the Golden Bears, Campbellsville's Danny Lapchak and Brandon Johnson gave the Tigers a 3-0 lead to start the day with a pair of home runs to the deepest part of the ballpark.
Lapchak added an RBI single in the second inning, while Michael Durham scored on an error to quickly stretch the lead to 5-0. A leadoff double by Marc Garza in the fourth set the tone for another three-run inning. Keaton Neeb doubled in Garza's pinch runner, Aaron Schwoebel and Durham, before Gibby Briones scored Levi McCamish with a sac fly. Garza led the Tigers in the game with a 3-for-3 day.
Tech's rally attempt added up to only two runs in the top of the fifth - its final runs of the day.
Tony Rossetto drove in three runs in the bottom of the fifth with a double in his only plate appearance of the day.
Carlos Torres and Ryan Squires added RBIs in the sixth to round out the Tigers' scoring.
Roberts struck out five in the win before Mason Yates and Danny Bright each pitched a scoreless inning of relief.
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GAME 2 - Campbellsville 7, WVU Tech 0
In game two, Rusty Devitt made his first legit start of the season after offseason surgery, and he took full advantage of his comeback start. After being held to a two-inning start March and throwing one inning of relief last week, Devitt tossed a 12-strikeout, two-hit, complete-game shutout for the Tigers.
The Tigers used small ball to get started in the second game with a lead off double by Tanner Nielsen in the third inning, followed by a sacrifice bunt by Lapchak. Briones drove in CU's first run with a sac fly to plate Nielsen.
Chance Kopcaz busted the game wide open in the fourth with a two-run home run, followed by a triple by Trent Seamons as part of a four-run inning.
Torres hit a two-run bomb in the sixth to put an exclamation point on the offensive side of the game.
Defensively, Deviit powered his way through the first six innings with 11 strikeouts. However, Tyler Anderson broke up the senior's no-hit try with a leadoff single past Nielsen at shortstop. Ryan Kessinger also had a single in the inning with two outs before Devitt stunned Tech lead off hitter Kevin Bocock for a called strike three to end the game.
Bocock, who hit 6-for-8 on Sunday, was held to a 1-for-6 day Monday. Kessinger was the only multi-hit Golden Bear in the doubleheader, collecting a hit in both games.
No Tiger had multiple hits in the second game, but Lapchak's single in the sixth game him three hits for the day.
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