PULASKI, Tenn. – Day one of the 2013 softball season resulted in a split for Campbellsville University in the Martin Methodist College Meltdown. The Lady Tigers rallied from a 3-0 hole to top No. 13 Reinhardt University in the season opener but dropped game two, 3-1, to Freed-Hardeman University.

The Lady Tigers (1-1) will return to action in the MMC Meltdown on Saturday, facing Taylor University at 10 a.m. EST and Point University (Ga.) at 12 p.m.

CAMPBELLSVILLE 4, REINHARDT 3

The Lady Tigers posted a four-run sixth inning to rally back and win their season opener. Shelby Ray started the inning by reaching on an error and was bunted into scoring position by Kacie Vincent. Emma Napier singled in the first run of the game for CU. Brooke Boils doubled to put two runners in scoring position and the go-ahead run at the plate.

Trailing, 3-1, Taylor Borders reached on an error, which scored Napier, before Heather Oakley delivered a two-RBI single to give CU a 4-3 lead.

Reinhardt got on the board in the second inning after a pair of leadoff walks. The first run came across on a wild throw by Napier. The Eagles posted two more in the top of the sixth.

Alyssa Barker's one-out single in the second was the Lady Tigers' only hit until the sixth inning.

Kelsi Pardue pitched a complete game for CU, allowing three runs on three hits and two walks. She struck out seven.

FREED-HARDEMAN 3, CAMPBELLSVILLE 1

A three-run fourth inning was too much for Campbellsville to rally back from in its second game of the season. Freed-Hardeman's Shelby Cummings doubled to lead off the inning and the hits kept coming as Sarah Elizabeth Cousar, Mercedes Norfork and Amber Vansandt each followed with a base hit. Cousar drove in Cummings for the first run and Vansandt drove in two.

Campbellsville left two runners on base in both the second and third innings before finding a run in the bottom of the fifth on a solo home run by Napier.

CU had two on with no outs in the sixth, but was unable to push across a run.

Cousar posted the complete-game win for the Lions, allowing only one run on four hits. She walked five and struck out 10.

Courtney Turpin started in the circle for CU, lasting 3 2/3 innings. She allowed three earned runs off five hits and two walks. Taylor Wroe pitched 3 1/3 of relief, striking out two and allowing one hit.

Borders led the Lady Tigers with a  2-for-4 performance in the game, while the other hits came from a Paragon single and Napier's homer.