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Box Score 3 GEORGETOWN, Ky. -- Campbellsville University baseball opened Mid-South Conference play with a 2-1 series win at Georgetown College over the weekend. CU handed Georgetown its first losses of the season in a doubleheader sweep Saturday, 12-7 and 2-1, but could not sweep the series, falling 5-3 Sunday.
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Campbellsville started the weekend with a burst of offense, posting 19 hits.
Chance Kopacz led off the Tigers' scoring with a double in the second inning and scored on a single from
Michael Durham. CU was able to add two more in the third with
Tanner Nielsen and
Danny Lapchak crossing the plate.
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Going into the fifth, CU held a 5-2 lead before adding three more runs. Kopacz had a solo home run and a Keaton Need double added two more.
Georgetown found some offense in the seventh, posting five runs. Georgetown had only two hits in the inning, but tallied four stolen bases.
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CU responded with three more runs in the eighth.
Gibby Briones knocked in
Levi McCamish and
Craig Edwards drove in two more with a single to right-center.
Rylan Chin added the final run in the ninth for CU, scoring on a double from pinch hitter Mark Garza.
Michael McBride earned the Tigers' first Mid-South Conference win of the season on the mound and his third of the season. Through six innings, McBride fanned five Georgetown batters while allowing only five hits and one walk. Andrew Shoemaker come on in relief in the seventh and earned his second save of the season for the Tigers.
In game two, CU's Ryan Richardson and Georgetown's Chase Ballinger were dominant on the mound. Combined, the two allowed only three hits through the first three innings.
CU struck first in the fourth inning with an RBI single from Briones to score Kopacz. Georgetown answered in the fifth when a Jordan Hinshaw sacrifice fly scored Dylan Grandon, but that's all the offense Georgetown could get going. CU struck again in the seventh when Kopacz knocked a double to left-center and scored following a Georgetown error, giving Campbellsville the go-ahead run.
Richardson (3-0) went the distance for the visiting Tigers, allowing only one run on three hits, while striking out five.
In Sunday's game, Georgetown opened with a 1-0 lead in the third after David Higuera singled to right field and scored thanks to a Chris Wood sacrifice squeeze. CU evened the score in the fourth after Briones reached after being hit by a pitch and was driven home by a Kopacz sacrifice fly to center field.
The maroon and gray took advantage of two Georgetown errors, in the sixth as a single from
Danny Lapchak and a triple from
Craig Edwards drove in two runs for the Tigers to gain a 3-1 lead. Georgetown was quick to respond, though, posting four runs in the sixth to take a 5-3 lead.
CU (12-2) will travel to Mid-Continent University on Tuesday, March 6 for a doubleheader scheduled at 3 p.m. ET. The Tigers' trip to Indiana University Southeast on Monday was canceled.
Story by Dutch Johnson
