CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – With the baseball teams of Campbellsville University and Georgetown College a game apart in the Mid-South Conference standings, it was Georgetown taking the first shot to win the three-game series opener 11-7 on Friday night.
With the win, GC and CU are now tied for second place in the conference with identical 11-5 records with the final two games of the conference season coming on tomorrow's doubleheader.
Georgetown took an early lead and seemingly were able to extend their lead every time CU was able to chip into it. It was a three-run second inning that allowed GC to take an early lead after they scored all of their runs after two outs.
Campbellsville was able to get a run back in the bottom half on a double steal with runners on first and third with two outs. But then it was a two-run home run from GC centerfielder Val Stammler, who lined a shot over the center field wall after a two-out walk continued the inning to make the score 5-1.
Anthony Arias struggled in his final regular season start, tying a season-low in innings pitched with 4.1 innings, allowing seven earned runs on six hits and three walks with only one strikeout.
Georgetown was able to answer a two-run CU bottom of the fourth with three in the top of the fifth to knock Arias out of the game and take their largest lead of the game at 8-3.
Jesse Davis was able to keep GC at eight runs through the seventh inning, allowing Campbellsville to cut the lead to a run.
It was a four-run sixth for CU, all after two outs to cut the Georgetown lead to 8-7 after two-RBI hits from
Tyler Deason and
Tony Fonzo. Deason singled to right, scoring a pair after a costly error in center field by Stammler allowed runners to advance to second and third and that was followed by a thrower error on the GC third baseman bringing Fonzo up for a two-run double to left center.
That was where the CU offense hit a wall after the sixth as they went scoreless for the remainder of the game, even after the tying run reached base or stepped to the plate in both the seventh and the ninth.
The six, seven, eight hitters in
Jack Bauer,
Tommy Sepulveda, and
Cale Thompson had seven of the 10 hits for Campbellsville in the game as Sepulveda and Thompson each had three hits in the game. Both teams left 11 runners on base over the nine innings and both had their defensive issues with seven total errors charged between the two clubs.
Both teams will be back at it tomorrow for a doubleheader with a 3:00 p.m. ET scheduled first pitch. Prior to the start of the first game, Campbellsville will honor 10 seniors about 30 minutes before first pitch as the final home games will host Senior Day for the baseball program.
