CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – A matchup against the No. 1 team in the NAIA rankings set the stage Wednesday afternoon as the Campbellsville University baseball team lost to Tennessee Wesleyan 12-1 at HIG Field.
 
There was no shortage of offensive opportunities for either side as the Bulldogs recorded 13 hits, took six walks, and had two batters hit by a pitch while leaving 11 on base as the Tigers had 11 hits, only drew one walk, and had one hit batter to also leave 11 runners stranded.
 
The key to the offensive discrepancy was timing as Tennessee Wesleyan cashed in with runners in scoring position early in the game with a pair of sacrifice flies to score their first two runs and an untimely error with two outs in the fourth to make it 3-0 early.
 
Campbellsville was unable to produce any run scoring hits in the game as their lone run came on a bases loaded wild pitch in the bottom of the fifth inning to make it a 6-1 game at the time. CU had the bases loaded in the second, fourth, and fifth innings but each time with two outs as the batter due up failed to reach in all three innings.
 
The Bulldogs scored two more in the seventh inning on a two-out RBI double from leadoff man Bryce Giles before a two-out error in the ninth inning eventually led to a Zach Hogueisson grand slam to break it even more open at the 12-1 final.
 
Hogueisson finished with three hits on the day with those four RBIs on the grand slam as Giles, Dan Fry, and Anthony Hickman all had multi-hit games for TWU. Eddy Arteaga and Noah Amenta each had two-hit games for the Tigers, but CU couldn't find that clutch swing in the game.
 
Campbellsville will head into the weekend with a non-conference doubleheader on Saturday when they face Georgia Gwinnett College on the road followed by two more road non-conference games next week.