WALESKA, Ga. (March 20, 2015) â€" Codie Campbell continued his stellar season with another quality start, but the Milligan College baseball team gave up a late lead and lost to Reinhardt University 6-3 Friday night in the opener of an Appalachian Athletic Conference three-game series.
 
Milligan (12-6, 4-4 AAC) and Reinhardt (13-13, 6-3 AAC) will conclude the series with a doubleheader on Saturday at 2 p.m.
 
Campbell, the reigning AAC pitcher of the week who's been on a tear lately, didn't exactly dazzle in this one but did more than enough to get the job done and gave the Buffaloes a chance to pick up what would have been their seventh win this week. He scattered three hits and four walks while striking out three, surrendering only two (unearned) runs in his third straight quality start. Campbell exited after the sixth inning with Milligan in a 3-2 lead but saw the Eagles rally with a four-run seventh en route to their AAC second-best sixth league win.
 
Campbell worked through a perfect first and third inning, bookending a bases-loaded, one-out jam he escaped in the second. After escaping a similar jam in the fourth, the junior right-hander received some help from his defense in the fifth when Edwin Soto threw out Reinhardt centerfielder Daniel Rodriguez trying to score from second on a single hit his way.
 
Soto added two hits on the offensive end, joining Nate Clifton in the multihit category. Clifton provided an RBI on his first hit with a single to center field which scored Chavez Golden. Nick Loughry followed in the next at-bat with a single to score Clifton as the Buffaloes began the scoring with three runs in the fifth.
 
Campbell, who is yet to give up an earned run in 25 innings this season, surrendered his first two runs of the season despite having two out and only one on in the sixth. Reinhardt scored two in that inning aided by Milligan errors, then added four more in the seventh to surge into the lead. Milligan put a man on with one out in each of the last two innings but was unable to move him beyond first.
 
After Milligan and Reinhardt conclude the series on Saturday, the Buffaloes will return home for more AAC action over the next two weekends. On Friday-Saturday, March 27-28, the Buffs will host Point University. On Friday-Saturday, April 3-4, they will host Bryan College.