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Box Score 2 CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — Campbellsville secured a series advantage with a 4-3 come-from-behind win in game one today, but could not secure the sweep as the Lady Tigers and Blue Raiders split a double header at Veterans Memorial Park.
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Campbellsville (12-4, 3-0) scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh to steal the first game.
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Lindsey Wilson (16-6, 0-3 MSC) had winning pitcher Victoria Decker (7-2) in trouble in the fifth, but the junior escaped with giving up only one run — an RBI single by Amanda Trampe.
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Decker scattered eight hits while walking two and striking out five.
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Jacqueline Roof's RBI single in the second gave CU a short-lived 1-0 lead, because in the top of the fourth LWC's Andrea Whelan hit a solo home run.
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Lindsey led 2-1 until Roof's second single of the game plated Markie Smith to tie the game at 2-2.
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Trampe's sacrifice fly in the top of the seventh put LWC up 3-2, but Brianna Scott singled with two out in the bottom of the seventh scoring the tying run in Zatoria Leavell. Roof advanced to home on the throw.
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Jordan Hood pitched a seven hitter, walking two and striking out five in the loss.
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Scott and Smith had two hits and an RBI apiece. Roof, Haley Szpila and Erin Benton had the other three.
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In the second game, Lindsey Wilson (17-6, 1-3) took a 2-0 lead and led all the way against Neely Quint (5-3).
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The Blue Raiders got two in the second when Quint walked a batter and hit three to force in a run. Then a successful squeeze play scored the other run.
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CU (12-5, 3-1 MSC) crept to within 2-1 in the bottom of the inning when consecutive doubles by Markie Smith and Rebecca Miller plated a run.
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But Lindsey would post two more runs in the fourth and one in the sixth.
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Smith homered in the fourth to close within 4-2 and got a run in the sixth when Kendyl Ahrens went yard.
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Losing pitcher Quint was touched for 12 hits, walking two and striking out a season-high seven batters. Casey Bryan was the winner, pitching a six-hitter and striking out five.
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The Lady Tigers are scheduled to host St. Catharine on Tuesday, March 24 in a 2 p.m. doubleheader.
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