CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — Campbellsville could not come all the way back in game one of a Tuesday double-header and had to settle for a split with Union College at Veterans Memorial Park, 6-5 and 14-0.

Union (7-5) utilized three CU (11-3) errors in the first game and led 6-2 through the first five innings. Campbellsville had gone up 2-0 in the bottom of the second when Erin Benton singled home Sara Paragon. Paragon had led off the inning with a double. Benton scored on Markie Smith's sacrifice fly.

But that was the last lead for the Lady Tigers.

Union scored six unanswered runs, two each in the third, fourth and fifth innings. The biggest blow came in the fifth when Union used two CU errors in plating the runs it would eventually need to secure the win.

Paragon opened the sixth with a home run to close the gap to 6-3 and a promising rally in the bottom of the seventh was snuffed out when she hit into a 5-3 double play.

Smith led off the seventh with a walk followed by Brittany Rippy's first career home run. Kristin Benton then singled and Shelby Ray bunted her into scoring position with one out. Heather Oakley was walked and that's when the double play ended the threat.

Victoria Decker absorbed the loss, giving up four runs on four hits and two bases on balls in 3 1/3 innings of work. Hayley Twyman faced two batters and Courtney Turpin pitched three innings, allowing two runs on five hits. The CU pitching rotation struck out four Bulldogs.

Tiffanie Moore was the big thorn in Campbellsville's side with three RBIs on three hits, one being a two-run homer in the fourth.

Kristin Benton had three hits and Paragon and Erin Benton had two each. Rippy and Adrean Jordan had the other two.

Game two was a different story, however. The Lady Tigers pounded out 11 hits, three of them home runs by Oakley (2 RBIs), Rippy (2 RBIs) and Destiney Taul (3 RBIs), to run-rule Union 14-0 in five innings.

Taylor Wroe went the distance in the circle, allowing two hits and striking out four.

CU scored three runs in the first, second and fourth innings, and burned up the base paths to score five times in the third.

Shelby Ray had three hits to lead the offensive attack, knocking in three runs. Alyssa Barker had two hits and Kristin Benton, Oakley, Paragon, Erin Benton, Rippy and Taul collecting one each.

Campbellsville will open Mid-South Conference play with a scheduled double-header on Friday, Feb. 28 with Bluefield College. First pitch set for 2:00 at Veterans Memorial Park.

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