MASON, Ohio – Four games down, two to go. That's the mantra of the Campbellsville University baseball team after sweeping Pool B in the NCCAA World Series with a pair of wins Thursday at Prasco Park. Campbellsville, the No. 2 seed, held off a seventh-inning rally by Covenant College for a 5-3 win mid-day and then seized an opportunity in the fifth inning of the night cap to push past No. 3 seed Arizona Christian University, 4-3.

Thursday's wins capped a 4-0 run through Pool B to clinch a spot in the 8 p.m. EDT semifinal on Friday against the runner-up of Pool A, which is still to be determined. Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Oklahoma Christian University and Southeastern University each still have a hope at the spot. The game will be preceded by a semifinal at 5 p.m. featuring No. 1 California Baptist University and No. 6 Olivet Nazarene University.

The winners of the two semifinal games will face off Saturday at 1 p.m. in the NCCAA World Series championship.

GAME 1 – Campbellsville 5, Covenant 3

In his first outing in two weeks due to injury, senior pitcher Sean Bouthilette went the distance for the Tigers in game one of the day. The Elizabethtown, Ky., native carried a no hitter into the fifth inning. He gave up two hits in the fifth and four in the seventh, which led to three late runs. He struck out five.

Campbellsville gave Bouthilette an early cushion with two runs in the top of the first innings. Michael Bush beat out an infield bunt single with one out before Keaton Neeb and Carlos Torres followed with back-to-back doubles to plate the first two runs.

In the third inning, CU added another run, 3-0, after Bush was hit by a pitch and scored on another Neeb double. It became a 5-0 game in the top of the fifth as Neeb drew a two-out walk, followed by singles from Torres and Aaron Schwoebel. Schwoebel's single scored courtesy runner Levi McCamish and then he scored on an error.

Perry Rigby busted up Bouthilette's no hitter and Paul Phillips followed with a two-out hit. Phillips struck again in the seventh. With one out, Sterling Witt doubled to right for Covenant, followed by a Rigby single and Phillips triple to score two. K.C. Simmons later drove in Phillips, but Bouthilette struck out pinch hitter Braeden Lane to end the game.

Torres and Neeb each had two hits for the Tigers, while Rigby and Phillips had two each for Covenant.


GAME 2 – Campbellsville 4, Arizona Christian 3

Campbellsville took advantage of miscues in the bottom of the fifth to string together four runs and erase a 3-0 deficit against Arizona Christian. The Tigers were being one-hit through 4 1/3 innings until ACU third baseman Paul Creecy committed back-to-back errors to put two on with a walk. ACU starter Jake Dziubczynski went on to hit Squires and committed a balk to score the Tigers' first run. Shane Woodson followed with a two-RBI single and moved to second on an error in left. Michael Bush later executed a squeeze bunt to score Woodson for the winning run.

ACU scored runs in the second, third and fifth inning. The Firestorm jumped on the board in the second when Drew Pettit served up an RBI single to Chris Russell.

Pettit walked two to start the third and Creecy drove in a run for a 2-0 lead. Pettit was pulled in the third, giving up two runs on three hits and three walks. Jacob Phillips took over for CU and recorded his first win as a Tiger after pitching 4 1/3 innings, allowing four hits and an earned run.

ACU built its lead to 3-0 in the fifth. Nathan Enriquez singled to start the inning and eventually ended up on third after another long season and then an injury this season. He scored on a Phillips' wild pitch.

Both teams had an inning end during the game with a great defensive stab as part of a double play.

Tylar Schmunk had the save for CU, his third of the season.

CU was held to four hits in the game, while giving up seven.