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Box Score 2 CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — Lady Tiger Softball rode the bat of Kristin Benton and a two-hitter by sophomore pitcher Victoria Decker to swallow up Rio Grande today at Veterans Memorial Park, 6-0 and 10-4.
The sweep moves CU (31-15, 18-10 MSC) into third place in the Mid-South Conference and gives the Lady Tigers a five-game winning streak with eight conference games remaining.
Benton went 4-for-7 on the day with two RBIs and five runs scored and Decker (12-8) struck out four and didn't issue any free passes in a textbook seven-inning stint.
Campbellsville 6, Rio Grande 0
CU scored all the runs it would need in the first inning when Shelby Ray scored on a Sara Paragon single and Heather Oakley advanced home on a wild pitch by Jenna Jones.
Rio would commit 10 errors on the day, five in each game, and the Lady Tigers took advantage of them.
Campbellsville scored a solo run in the third when it didn't get a hit and left three runners stranded. CU would strand seven more in the game, but not in the fourth when three hits and three errors led to the final runs of the game.
Adrean Jordan had two hits and Kristin Benton, Ray, Oakley and Kendyl Ahrens all had one.
Campbellsville 10, Rio Grande 4
The Lady Tigers used the long ball to satisfy their need for runs in game two. Heather Oakley (6th) and Brittany Rippy (5th) both hit home runs and Kristin Benton hit two (10th and 11th) to subdue the RedStorm.
Taylor Wroe (13-2) allowed five hits in 5 1/3 innings, two of those being two-run homers. She was relieved by Martina Riney who pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings, striking out three.
CU scored two runs in the first, second and third innings. Oakley's home run accounted for the first-inning runs. Markie Smith's run-scoring single in the second chased Rio starter Tiffany Bise.
But Kristin Benton greeted her replacement, Katie Noll, with a a leadoff home run in the fourth and then CU scored three more in the sixth on back-to-back solo shots by Kristin Benton and Rippy. Markie Smith, who had two hits in the game, closed out the scoring with a single plating Shelby Ray.
CU entertains Cumberland University (28-13-1, 14-10 MSC), Tuesday, April 15 at Veterans Memorial Park in a 2 p.m. doubleheader.
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