BUIES CREEK, N.C.-Senior outfielder Courtney Quinn and sophomore catcher Amanda Littlejohn combined for eight hits, four homers and 11 RBI to lead Campbell softball over UNC Wilmington 7-3 and 15-3 in the Camels 2008 home opener.

With the pair of victories, the Camels are off to their best start through eight games in school history, moving to 7-1 on the year. UNC Wilmington, meanwhile, falls to 0-2, playing its first pair of contests this season.

In all, the Camels outscored UNCW 22-6, while connecting for 22 hits, six homers, three doubles and one triple, batting a stellar .415 as a team against Seahawk pitching. Sophomore Brittany Stanley and freshman Lauren Stephan were also successful in the circle, allowing only six runs, three earned and 13 hits, fanning 14 batters in 12.0 innings of work. While all three earned runs were charged to Stanley the West Lafayette, Ind. native never allowed a walk as she picked up her fourth win of the season.

In game one, the Camels jumped on the board first taking a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a Stephan single, scoring sophomore Cassie Webb. Far from finished, Campbell picked up another run when Littlejohn, Lake Elsinore, Calif. native, knocked her third homer of the year to lead off the bottom of the third. Dunn, N.C. product Amanda Miller, a freshman third baseman, also tallied an RBI in the inning, nabbing a single and scoring junior first baseman Karlie Love to make the score 3-0.

Love knocked a two-run homer of her own in the Campbell fourth, batting in Quinn. Stephan also powered a two-run homer an inning later, the first of her Camel career, plating sophomore Robin Leathers in the process to give CU a 7-0 lead.

In the top of the seventh, UNCW put together a rally however, as sophomore Morgan Walters and senior Jessica Allen each collected RBI and Meghan Murray, a senior outfielder, reached crossed the plate of a double-steal. Stephan and the Camels escaped the inning, however, ending the game with a 7-3 advantage.

Stephan collected the win for CU, moving to 3-1 on the year. The Phoenix, Ariz. native fanned eight Seahawks in the seven inning complete game outing, allowing six hits and three runs, none earned, while walking just two batters. Amanda Aditays, a freshman hurler for UNCW, was charged with the loss, throwing six innings and giving up seven runs on nine hits, walking four with one strikeout.

In the nightcap, Campbell picked up where it left off in the first game, scoring four runs in the first inning. After a Quinn triple, freshman shortstop Katie Hinton sent a double into left field to score the senior. Littlejohn then drove in Hinton on a single before Miller picked up two more RBI on another Camel double, leaving the Seahawks with a 4-0 deficit after one inning of play.

After tagging another run in the second on a Quinn homerun, the Camels pushed five runs across in the third as 10 batters saw action at the plate. Quinn led the charge in the inning, clubbing her second dinger of the contest and fifth of the year, a three-run homer scoring Miller and freshman second baseman Keeli Michael. Miller and Love also grabbed RBI in the inning on singles to run the score to 10-0.

UNCW finally narrowed the deficit in the top of the fourth, as senior shortstop Charla Wacker knocked in senior catcher Lindsay Styons and freshman first baseman Allison Lanouette.

In the Campbell fourth, the Camels put up five more runs, highlighted by an Amanda Littlejohn grand slam, her second homerun of the day and fourth of the season. Courtney Quinn also collected an RBI in the inning, pushing freshman Amanda Cline across the plate on a walk, giving Campbell a 15-2 advantage.

Needing just three outs to end the game early, the Seahawks put together a short rally in the fifth, but could manage only one run on two hits, ending the game after five innings with CU on top, 15-3.

Stanley was the pitcher of record for the Camels in the contest, extending her mark to 4-0 on the season. The sophomore struck out six in five innings of work, scattering seven hits while giving up three earned runs without issuing a walk. For the Seahawks, Samantha Lisowsky took the loss, pitching three innings and giving up 10 runs on 10 hits, striking out four and walking four.

Campbell will make its way to Chapel Hill tomorrow afternoon, facing North Carolina at 4 p.m. for another midweek doubleheader.