RIO GRANDE, Ohio – Getting on a field for a midweek non-conference series for the first time this season, the Campbellsville University baseball team earned a win and a loss on the road against Rio Grande on Tuesday.
 
The pair of scheduled seven inning games both could have gone the way of the Tigers but RGU earned a 3-2 win in extra innings in game one before CU found their offensive game for a 16-6 win in a darkness shortened five innings of game two.
 
In that game two win, Campbellsville took an early lead then fell behind 5-3 before exploding for a 13-run fifth inning, that elongated the game late enough to where darkness set in at Rio Grande's field that does not have lights.
 
CU scored those 16 runs, all earned, without hitting a single ball out of the park as Tommy Sepulveda (2), Bryan Javier (3), Eddy Arteaga (2), and Noah Amenta (2) all had multi-RBI games. Matt Lawson (2), Anthony Marcano (2), and Tyler Cox (3) all provided multi-hit games while driving in one run apiece for the Tigers.
 
The Tigers pitching staff in game two was effective enough to give up six runs, four earned over the five innings with Mason Lee getting the start and going three while Deshawn Welch and Noah Godfrey each pitched an inning in relief.
 
In the day's first game, Campbellsville had a pair of one-run leads at different points, going up 1-0 in the first inning before giving it right back in the bottom half then holding a 2-1 lead late before the Red Storm were able to tie the game then eventually take the lead.
 
With that 2-1 lead in the bottom of the seventh, the Tigers got two quick outs to start the inning but it was a two-out walk that was followed by a triple from RGU's Caden Cluxton that tied the game to force extra innings.
 
Then in the bottom of the eighth, a leadoff double followed by a sacrifice bunt forced CU to play the infield in when Trey Carter hit a soft line drive up the middle to score Jesse Watson and win the game for the Red Storm.
 
Sepulveda produced a multi-hit game in game one as well as he did in game two batting from the leadoff spot as he and Cale Thompson provided the only three hits for CU in the game.
 
Logan Davis got the start on the bump in game one and pitched a solid 4.2 innings allowing only one run on five hits with one walk and three strikeouts. Gage Smart and Korren Thompson pitched out of the pen as Smart gave up the tying run in the seven and Thompson pitched in the eighth.
 
Campbellsville will return home for a three-game series in Mid-South Conference play starting on Thursday when they host Martin Methodist College at HIG Field. The series' first two games have been moved to Thursday to avoid the rain that is in the forecast for Friday and Saturday.