BUIES CREEK, N.C. - The Campbell softball team (2-0) started the 2011 season with a pair of wins at the Hampton Inn Tournament at the Eakes Athletic Complex on Friday, Feb. 11. The Camels were able to win the team's first game over Virginia by a 7-2 score and then took the second game of the day with a comeback 10-7 victory over Drexel.

Campbell sophomore lefty Brittany Arnn (1-0) earned the opening game start and was steady with four innings and three strikeouts. She was relieved by freshman Olivia Scarborough, who continued the outstanding pitching, with three innings worked and two hits allowed for her first career save.

The Camels fell behind early to the Cavaliers as Virginia pushed a run across in the second inning on Kristen Hawkins' RBI groundout. CU then stormed back with five runs in the bottom of the frame. Senior Amanda Miller started the rally with a walk. She moved to second as senior Lizzie Goldbach was hit by a pitch. A fly out moved Miller to third. Senior Lauren Stephan then walked to load the bases. Sophomore Sarah Ling knocked in the team's first run with a single to right. Senior Keeli Michael followed with the crushing blow, a bases clearing double, to increase the Campbell lead to 4-0. Michael scored the team's fifth run on sophomore Sarah Forgacs' RBI bunt single.

The Campbell offense added on with two more runs in the third inning. Miller again started the rally and doubled to center. She came in to score on Goldbach's home run to left center.

Virginia added a late run in the fifth on Giannina Cipolloni's sacrifice fly to make final score 7-2.

The Camels fell behind early in the second game to Drexel. The Dragons jumped on Campbell early with three runs in the first. The big hit of the inning for Drexel was Paige Collings' two run double.

CU cut the lead to two in the bottom of the first on junior Christina Melton's towering home run to left field.

Drexel added three more runs to the lead in the third inning. Collings started the rally with a double. Katy Harrington drove her in with a single. Kelly Downes then walked and moved to second on the pass ball that moved Harrington to third. Both runners then came in to score on back-to-back pass balls.

The Camels crept a run closer in the bottom of the third. Forgacs started the rally with a single. She moved to second on a fly out, stole third and came in to score the team's second run on a throwing error from the Drexel catcher on her successful steal.

Campbell took the lead for good and exploded for seven runs in the fourth. Goldbach started the comeback with a single. Junior Taylor McGee and freshman Shaela Churchill moved her to third with back-to-back walks. Stephan drove in Goldbach and McGee with a single. Junior Katie Hinton loaded the bases again with a bunt single. A fielding error on a sacrifice fly from Forgacs drove in Churchill. Forgacs and Hinton both came in to score on Melton's single to right field. Miller then doubled in Melton and scored herself on Goldbach's double.

Drexel made the score 9-7 in the top of the sixth inning on Amanda Bachmann's infield single.

The last run of the game came via the long ball with CU's Raven Lee announcing herself to the crowd with a home run in her first career at-bat.

Stephan (1-0) was the second game winner with 3.2 innings of relief. Senior Katie Woodcock earned her first save of the season and the eighth save of her career with a scoreless seventh inning of relief.

CU will continue hosting the Hampton Inn Tournament and takes on SIU Edwardsville on Saturday, Feb 12 at 1:30 p.m. After the first day of action SIUE and Virginia are both 1-1 and Drexel sports a 0-2 record. All four teams will have a game at either 4 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. on Saturday evening in yet to be determined seed play.