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COLUMBIA, Ky. -- Six home runs left the ballpark at Blue Raider Stadium and the Lindsey Wilson softball team registered a combined 15 hits to score 15 runs as it dealt No. 24 Campbellsville (Ky.) a pair of losses on Saturday in Mid-South Conference action.
The Blue Raiders (41-9, 18-4 MSC) won 6-1 in game one, followed by a 9-1 win in six innings in the finale on senior day for the Blue Raiders' nine senior student-athletes.
Jane Egiazarova, making a pair of starts at catcher, providing a few of the day's fireworks, hitting a home run in each game to finish 2-for-4 overall with two walks. Third baseman Emily Priar hit a home run as well as she finished 3-for-5 with a walk in her final home contest.
Also adding home runs for Lindsey Wilson were shortstop Jamie Williams, right fielder Andrea Whelan and second baseman Jordan Gilland.
Left fielder Kristin Benton hit the lone home run for the Tigers (32-16, 14-5 MSC) in the opener as she finished with three hits on the day and added a double.
Cara Law (19-3) picked up the win in the circle in the opener, allowing one run on six hits with six strikeouts in seven innings. Jordan Hood (17-4) picked up the win in game two, allowing just one hit in 1-2/3 innings of relief for starter Kristina Krupinski.
Krupinski exited in the top of the fifth inning after the Tigers came back to tie the game at one run each in the fourth. Krupinski allowed one run on five hits in 4-1/3 innings.
The stat line in the opener shows both teams finishing with six hits, it just so happened that four of Lindsey Wilson's hits landed over the fence.
The Blue Raiders registered two runs in the first inning as Priar and Williams hit back-to-back homers, with Williams' blast to center field ultimately being the winning run.
By the time Whelan hit her three-run blast in the fifth inning, the Blue Raiders led 6-0. Campbellsville finally scored in the sixth as Benton hit her home run off of Law, but that would be the final offense of the game.
The finale had a tighter start as the Blue Raiders struck first with a single run in the second inning on Egiazarova's second home run. The Tigers evened the score in the fourth as third baseman Bailey Dillender hit a double and came around to score when Williams' bobbled a ball hit by right fielder Jennifer England.
The tie score was short lived as Lindsey Wilson went off for five runs in the next inning.
Gilland provided the heroics as her three-run homer with one out broke the tie and put the Blue Raiders on top for good. Center fielder Travatia Bowden added another run on a bobble by Dillender and Priar scored from third on a passed ball.
The runs kept coming in the sixth as Lindsey Wilson went ahead by eight runs after five innings to bring the game to an early close.
With two outs, pinch hitters Lindsey Bridges and Caren Alexander were both walked, followed by three straight singles by Priar, Williams and Whelan to end the game as Priar came across the plate for the team's ninth run.
Courtney Turpin (17-9) took the loss in game one, while Taylor Wroe (14-2) took just her second loss of the season in game two.
Lindsey Wilson has a full week off before ending the regular season at Noon CT on Saturday at Georgetown (Ky.).