COLUMBIA, Ky. – Campbellsville baseball showed no signs of rust after three days off between the series opener and the final two games Monday afternoon against Lindsey Wilson College as the Tigers won by games in shutout fashion.
Game one was a 4-0 shutout combined between three pitchers in starter
Tyler Deason and relievers
Gage O'Brien and
Malcom Grady as the trio only allowed two hits in the nine-inning contest. Deason went five innings allowing two hits and walking one with three strikeouts on just 64 pitches to pick up his fifth win.
O'Brien and Grady finished the final four winnings with O'Brien going three from the sixth to the eighth nine-up, nine-down with five strikeouts allowing only one base runner on a hit by pitch as he was later picked off. Grady got the final three outs of the game in eight pitches with a strikeout to finish off the 4-0 win.
Offensively, CU scored their four runs in the first two innings as they scored every run after two outs in the respective innings. In the first,
Austin Peterson lined a ball into center field, scoring
Tyson Solis from second to take a 1-0 lead. Solis was playing in his first game in 40 days after sitting out since March 12
thwith a hamstring injury and had three hits with and RBI in his first action after being cleared to play late last week.
The three runs in the second inning came off the bats of Deason and
Tony Fonzo as both singled to center as Deason notched a single RBI and Fonzo's single to center came for two RBIs. In between those two singles, it was an error from the LWC third baseman that kept the inning alive for Fonzo as those final two runs went in unearned.
The scoring in game two was spread out between the first, third, sixth, and seventh innings as they were able to jump out to their third-straight 1-0 lead in the top of the first in the series. It was another two-out run in the first after CU loaded the bases with one out, it got to
Chris Taitague with two outs as walked on five pitches to force in the first run of game two.
They added a pair of runs in the third inning after two outs again as
Brandon Douglas singled to left to score Deason from third base. On the very next pitch, Taitague dropped a bunt down the third base line for a single but the throw to first was thrown into foul territory down the right field line, allowing
Lane Kashiwamura to score from first after he was the courtesy runner for Douglas.
Deason added to the Tigers' lead with a three-run home run to right center field for his fifth home run of the season. The Solis RBI single came in the top of the seventh when he singled up the middle scoring
Jack Bauer from second after Bauer led off the inning with a double as a pinch hitter.
It was also another solid start on the mound for Campbellsville as
Eric Little had his best start in a Tigers' uniform. The junior went six innings of shutout ball allowing only three hits and striking out five for his longest outing in his first year at CU.
Jesse Davis finished off the game striking out the side in the seventh to clinch the series sweep in a two-game total time of four hours and 20 minutes.
The Tigers will officially begin their final week of the regular season starting right back tomorrow evening against Union College at HIG Field. That non-conference game will be followed by the final regular season Mid-South Conference series
