BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Tyler Alford and Phil Stiles each doubled twice, Hector Viera and Justin Byrd both drove in three runs and Stevie Smith tossed seven strong innings in Cumberland’s 14-2 victory over Georgetown College here Wednesday in the club’s opening game in the Mid-South Conference Baseball Championships.

With the win the Bulldogs (19-29) advance to take on 19th-ranked Campbellsville University at 3 p.m. on Thursday. CU lost all three games to the Tigers two weeks ago, with two of the losses in extra innings.

Cumberland pounded out six doubles and 15 hits in the seven-inning victory that was cut short by the run rule, which only applies to Wednesday’s games in the tourney. CU scored two ru8ns in the first, second, third and fourth innings and six more in the seventh to put the game away.

Alford reached base four times and lined out in his other plate appearance while Stiles, Viera, Ryan Dickison, Jonathan Larson and Conor Dishman all finished with a pair of hits. Stiles scored three times and Ryan Simmons and Eddie McDaniels each scored twice. Dishman and Larson also drove in two runs apiece for the Bulldogs.

Smith (5-3) kept the Tigers at bay, scattering seven hits and allowing two runs with two walks and four strikeouts. He punched out Jovan Hernandez and Rick Reyes to end the seventh, getting out of a 2nd-and-3rd with one out jam with CU leading 6-1. The senior righthander gave up three straight singles in the seventh but then induced a 6-4-3 doubleplay and a grounder to third to end the contest.

Georgetown starter Tyler Arthur (3-5) lasted just three-plus innings, giving up eight runs on 10 hits. Arthur tossed a four-hitter in seven innings last Friday against the Bulldogs, but CU’s approach was much better against the righthander on Wednesday, hitting balls continually and hard to the right side.

The Bulldogs jumped out early with two runs in the top of the first after Stiles led off with a double to leftcenter. He went to third on a lineout to right by Viera and scored on a groundout to second from Byrd, but CU wasn’t done in the inning.

Alford then doubled into the rightfield corner and pinch-runner Zach Cole came across on a single through the left side by Dickison for a 2-0 lead after a half inning.

The Tigers (18-17) got a run back in the bottom of the inning when Duran Elmore dumped a leadoff double down the rightfield line and Steven Mancilla laid down a nice bunt toward the third base line. Smith’s throw to first was high, allowing Elmore to score on the play, but Stiles backed up the play and Mancilla was tagged out in a rundown.

Simmons was hit with one out in the second for CU and McDaniels followed with a single to left. The runners moved to second and third on a groundout by Stiles and Viera’s single off the end of the bat made it into leftfield, just past the outstretched arm of Mancilla, plating two runs for a 4-1 advantage.

Cumberland scored twice more in the third inning, starting with a one-out single to left by Alford. With two outs Larson laid a beautiful bunt down the third base line and Dishman followed with a single to right. Cole would have been out at the plate but Hernandez dropped the ball, allowing the runner to score. Simmons then singled up the middle, scoring Larson for a 6-1 lead.

The Bulldogs added two more runs in the fourth and chased Arthur from the contest.

McDaniels led off with a walk and Stiles doubled to leftcenter, just off the glove of a sliding Tyler Unkel, prompting a pitching change. Viera singled through the middle, plating a run, and Byrd’s groundout scored another, extending the lead to 8-1.

Cumberland expanded the lead more in the seventh, with Alford leading off with a double to rightcenter. Dickison then singled to left, putting runners on the corners, and Larson’s double to deep leftcenter plated both runners. Dishman also doubled to right, scoring Larson for an 11-1 advantage.

Byrd walked with the bases loaded for his third RBI of the game and two more runs came across later in the inning, one on a wild pitch and the other when the throw got away from the catcher Hernandez to the plate.