LEBANON, Tenn. – Jarrett Plunkett’s pinch-hit two-run homer and Erik Barron’s complete-game effort with 13 strikeouts helped Cumberland win the opener, 4-3, and split a doubleheader with 16th-ranked Campbellsville University in baseball action here Saturday at Ernest L. Stockton Field-Woody Hunt Stadium.

Cumberland (30-24, 11-10 Mid-South) won 2-of-3 in the series and must wait until games are finished Sunday to find out if they will host a first-round series next weekend in the Mid-South Conference Championships.

Plunkett’s pinch-hit two-run homer in the seventh inning off Campbellsville closer Jake Pannunzio put the home team ahead, 4-3. It was the second go-ahead home run of the season for the senior Plunkett, who was one of 13 players honored between games as part of Senior Day.

Barron (3-2) struck out 13 and allowed three runs on seven hits in a complete game. He retired 18 of the final 23 batters of the game, working around singles in the fifth and seventh innings, a single and a walk in the sixth and an error in the ninth. After a first-inning home run by Cameron Ketchen, Barron gave up one run on five hits and struck out 11 in the final eight frames.

Hector Viera posted two hits, two RBIs and scored a run, while Mike Melendez added two hits for CU.

Campbellsville (30-15, 12-9) starter Mario Morales gave up two runs on six hits with no walks and six strikeouts in six innings. Pannunzio (5-1) suffered the loss, allowing two runs on two hits with no walks and two strikeouts.

Ketchen finished 3-for-3 with a run scored and two RBIs and Nestor Linares recorded two hits and scored twice for the Tigers.

Campbellsville scored twice in the first inning of the second game and added a run in the sixth to win the final game of the series, 3-2, in a sloppy affair that included five errors for the Tigers and four unearned runs.

Riley Joyce’s two-run double in the first put Campbellsville ahead for good and the Phoenix were unable to move and drive in runners when they had the chance, finishing the contest 3-for-12.

Nick Morehead (5-5) picked up the victory, giving up two unearned runs on six hits with five strikeouts in five-plus innings. Pannunzio posted his 13th save with two scoreless frames to end it, striking out Melendez and getting Plunkett to foul out with the tying run on third in the sixth.

Melendez suffered the loss for CU, allowing three runs, one earned, on six hits in 5.2 innings. He walked three and struck out six and was responsible for the two runs in the first after a throwing error on a bunt set-up the inning for the Tigers.

Campbellsville started quickly in the opener, with Linares leading off the game with a single to center before Ketchen’s two-run, opposite-field homer to left, his third home run of the year.

The Phoenix got a run back in the second when Nick McGrew led off with a double to right and Tyler Yorko was hit with one out. Josh Croft’s single to left loaded the bases and Viera’s short fly ball to center plated McGrew, cutting the deficit to 2-1.

Linares singled and Casey Scott walked to start the Tigers third inning and the runners moved up on a sacrifice bunt by Ketchen. Cody Erickson’s single to right put Campbellsville ahead, 3-1, but Barron worked out of the jam with a pair of ground balls.

Barron retired 9-of-10 batters in the middle innings, starting with the two ground balls at the end of the third.

Cumberland made it a one-run game again in the fourth when Melendez singled past the second baseman and stole second on a delayed steal. With two outs Viera singled to left and Melendez slid in just ahead of the throw from Jarrod Ball.

The Phoenix was unable to muster anything offensively until the seventh, with Viera leading off with a soft single to leftcenter against Pannunzio. He moved to second on a sac bunt by Grant House and after a strikeout, Plunkett drilled an 0-1 pitch over the wall in left, his fifth of the season.

Barron worked around a two-out error in the ninth, getting a fly ball to rightcenter from Scott to end the game.

Campbellsville started the final game of the series much the same way it did in Saturday’s opener, with Linares drawing a leadoff walk and Scott reaching on a throwing error by Melendez on a sac bunt attempt.

Ketchen’s bunt put the runners at second and third and after a strikeout, Joyce drilled a two-run double off the base of the wall in left, giving the Tigers another early advantage.

The Phoenix cut into the deficit in the fifth after a one-out single to center by Kyle Allen. Gabe Lares then put down a beautiful bunt and the throw to first from Scott got away. The ball rolled down the rightfield line and past rightfielder Ketchen, allowing pinch-runner Bo Saunders to score.

On a 1-2 pitch Viera swung and the ball got by the catcher, but Lares was thrown out trying to score, keeping the game at 2-1.

The Tigers answered back in the sixth, though, with Erickson leading off with a double down the leftfield line. After a groundout by Joyce, Diego Reynoso walked and Campbellsville pinch-ran for both runners.

Pinch-hitter Mike Castellano ripped a ball over the head of Plunkett in left, but pinch-runner Nelson Quark was standing on the bag to tag when the ball sailed over the leftfielder’s head. He tried to score but was thrown out at the plate.

Pinch-hitter Miguel Solano singled to right, loading the bases, and Jacob Carrera singled to center, plating a run, though Castellano was thrown out at the plate by Lares trying to score.

Miscues helped Cumberland make it a one-run game again in the bottom of the inning, with a two-base error by shortstop Erickson putting Ryan Dickison on base. McGrew then singled off the glove of the second baseman up the middle, plating a run, and Yorko’s sac bunt and a passed ball put McGrew at third with one out.

Pannunzio struck out Melendez swinging and Plunkett fouled out to the first baseman to end the inning. The lefthander struck out the side in the seventh to end the contest.

Cumberland ends the regular season Monday at top-ranked Georgia Gwinnett at 5 p.m. CT. The Phoenix will find out late Sunday who and where it will play in the first round of next week’s Mid-South Conference Championships.