Softball vs. KCU 4-14-18
Kalin Bottoms was thrown out in the seventh inning on a potential sacrifice fly to secure KCU's 2-1 win in game two
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Winner Campbellsville CAMP 34-4
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Kentucky Christian KCU 7-24
Winner
Campbellsville CAMP
34-4
13
Final
1
Kentucky Christian KCU
7-24
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Campbellsville CAMP 2 11 0 0 0 13 14 0
Kentucky Christian KCU 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 3

W: Quint, Neely (22-0) L: Whitney McKay (1-12)

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Campbellsville CAMP 35-5
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Winner Kentucky Christian KCU 8-24
Campbellsville CAMP
35-5
1
Final
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Kentucky Christian KCU
8-24
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Campbellsville CAMP 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 0
Kentucky Christian KCU 0 0 0 0 0 2 X 2 5 5

W: Cartney Schoolcraft (7-9) L: Gailor, Morgan (11-5)

Game Recap: Softball | | Jordan Alves

No. 4 Lady Tigers slip up and allow Kentucky Christian to steal game four of the series

Kalin Bottoms was thrown out in the seventh inning on a potential sacrifice fly to secure KCU's 2-1 win in game two

GRAYSON, Ky. — After winning game one 13-1, Lady Tiger softball had the bases loaded with no outs and down a run in the seventh inning of game two. Ryley Whitney's sacrifice fly attempt was robbed as Kentucky Christian right-fielder Kelly House threw out Kalin Bottoms trying to score, spoiling a potential sweep for Campbellsville. 
 
It was a tale of two games as the Lady Tigers put together 14 hits in game one and won 13-1 but CU's offense struggled in the series finale to Kentucky Christian, falling 2-1. 
 
With the split, No. 4 Campbellsville falls to 34-5 on the season and 16-2 inside Mid-South Conference play. The only bright spot is the Lady Tigers still hold on to a five-game lead in the conference standings as Lindsey Wilson dropped another 6-5 contest to Shawnee State and split the series this weekend. The Blue Raiders are at 11-5 inside the MSC. 
 
Neely Quint (22-0) didn't have her best stuff this morning in the third game of the series but battled her tail off allowing only four hits through four innings and striking out three. Karson Williams finished the fifth inning in the run-rule victory and did not allow a base runner. 
 
Morgan Gailor was the tough-luck loser in the finale, tossing six innings, allowing five hits and two six-inning runs – which was the difference maker. Gailor also struck out five in the loss to fall to 11-5 overall. 
 
Game one: Campbellsville 13, Kentucky Christian 1
 
The Lady Tigers scored two runs in the first but put up an 11-spot in the second – their largest scoring output in an inning this season – to dominate the Knights (8-24, 3-12 MSC). 
 
In that decisive second inning, CU brought 15 batters to the plate with eight of them picking up hits. The inning was capped with a Jacqueline Roof 3-run home run – the first homer of the series. 
 
On the play, KCU left fielder Hunter Scott attempted to rob Roof's long ball but went down with a right-leg injury that halted the game for about 10 minutes. She did not return. 
 
Quint's only blemish came in the second as Cassie Adkins led off the frame with a solo homer that snuck around the fair pole down the left field line. 
 
Roof led CU with three hits and a season-high five RBI in the third game of the series. Tori Humphrey, Brianna Scott and Jordan Ison also tallied multi-hit games with two. Whitney and Scot drove in two runs, while Ison drove in one along with Alexis Smith and Humphrey. 
 
Game two: Kentucky Christian 2, Campbellsville 1
 
The second game didn't go Campbellsville's way. Cartney Schoolcraft got out of multiple jams all afternoon, tossing a complete-game five-hitter and allowed an unearned run while striking out five. But the biggest of them all came with the game on the line in the seventh. 
 
In the first, the Lady Tigers had two runners on after singles by Roof and Humphrey, but both were stranded – two of the nine CU would leave on base.
 
After going down 1-2-3 in the second, Kalin Bottoms and Roof walked to lead off the third and Rebecca Miller reached after an error on her sacrifice bunt to load the bases. But CU couldn't muster a run with the middle of their order up and no outs to strand three more. 
 
Moving to the sixth, Campbellsville was sparked with a leadoff double by Ryley Whitney and she scored an unearned run on a KCU error. Miller used another sac bunt to move Whitney to third but an error by the first basemen McKenzie Vanover allowed Whitney to score and put CU ahead, 1-0. 
 
The wheels fell off in the sixth inning thanks to a pair of walks and an unfortunate bad call by an umpire. 
 
Gailor allowed a leadoff walk to Jordan Shockley and she eventually moved to second on a stolen base. Then Gailor got down to business and picked up a strikeout and fly out. Now one out away from getting out of the jam, Ashley Fisher delivered a slow roller to first baseman Kalin Bottoms and her flip to Dana Adkins beat Fisher to the base, but the umpire unfortunately called her safe, allowing the game-tying run to score. 
 
Now with runners on first and second and two outs, another two-hit out by Whitney McKay scored the game-winner for KCU. 
 
Campbellsville had a chance in the seventh but the KCU defense stepped up when it mattered. Bottoms singled and then two consecutive errors allowed the Lady Tigers to load the bases once more with no outs. Tori Humphrey then popped up and Ryley Whitney flew out to right field, but Kelly House threw out Bottoms try to score on the sacrifice fly for the game-clinching out. 
 
Campbellsville will now look to bounce back on Wednesday, April 18 as rival Georgetown College comes to town for a doubleheader at 2 p.m. ET. 
 
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