LEBANON, Tenn.--22-ranked Cumberland baseball drops game one of the Mid-South Conference series against Campbellsville 13-7. 

Campbellsville (18-16, 11-8 MSC) came ready to play, scoring in all but two innings. Ryan McFarland picked up the win in relief, throwing five innings giving up just four hits and one run. 

Cumberland (22-9-1, 12-3 MSC) picked up 13 hits and hit two home runs, but never could keep the Tigers at bay with the bats. Every Phoenix in the lineup recorded a hit in the game with Tyner Hughes leading the way going 4-for-5 with one RBI. Chewy Sanders posted two hits and his seventh home run of the season. Xavier Torres left the yard for a home run. 

Reid Madariaga was tagged with the loss, throwing four innings giving up nine hits and nine runs, just seven of them were earned. Ryan Calvert threw four frames giving up three hits and three runs and Will Graves chucked the ninth giving up a run on a solo homer. 

On the first pitch of the game, Alex Castaneda set the tone for the Tigers hitting a leadoff home run to put Campbellsville up early. Cumberland quickly restaliated in the bottom of the inning with three runs. Dee Triplett singled to right field tying the game. On a first and third double steal give Cumberland a 2-1 lead and Tim Holyk followed with double to left field extending the first inning lead to 3-1.

Campbellsville fought back in the second inning, scoring three with two home runs in the inning. Josiah Clark hit a two-run shot to left field and Lorenzo Gonzalez then went back-to-back to retake the lead.

In the bottom half, Xavier Torres hit a solo shot to left field, tying the game at 4-4, his third home run of the season

Campbellsville took the lead again in the third inning, with an single to left from Jorge Gonzalez. Hughes misplayed the ball in left allowing a run to come across. Grant McQueary followed with a sacrifice fly and Clark roped a double down the left field line to bring home another Tiger for a 7-4 lead.

In the fourth inning, Madariaga had settled in retiring the first two batters, but a two-out error brought up Jorge Gonzalez who made CU pay for the mistake with a two-run homerun to left field. Cumberland managed to get the two runs back as Torres reached on an error and came around to score and Hughes drove in courtesy runner Drew Dalton cutting the Campbellsville lead to 9-6.

After a scoreless frame, the Tigers went back on the offensive scoring two more runs on Jorge Gonzalez's two-RBI double. Campbellsville pushed across one more in the seventh before Chewy Sanders left the yard for the final run of the game for Cumberland. 

Jacob White led off the ninth with a solo home run to left for the 13-7 final score. 

Cumberland and Campbellsville will play game two and three tomorrow starting at noon.