Former Triton player Dalen Thompson reacts to his game-ending hit.
(Dunn Area Sports Photo/Paul Burgett)

BUIES CREEK – Campbell was a walk-off winner in 10 innings to complete a series sweep of Butler at Jim Perry Stadium on Sunday as Dalen Thompson (Triton) delivered an RBI single to lift the Camels to a 10-9 win.

Campbell (6-1) is off to the best seven-game start of coach Justin Haire’s nine-year tenure at Campbell.

The Camels found themselves in a hole for the third time in as many games against the Bulldogs but fought back from an 9-2 deficit in the middle of the seventh by scoring eight runs in the last four frames.

The offense got hot with a four-run seventh, kickstarted by a Drew Winters solo home run. Lawson Harrill, Logan Jordan, and Jarrod Belbin all drove in a run in the frame as well.

Cam O’Brien helped the Camels out of a jam in the eighth, and was nearly perfect in relief, retiring eight of the nine batters, sitting the Bulldogs down in order in the ninth and 10th innings.

The offense took advantage, with Harrill and Jordan driving in two more to get within a run. Down to the final out, Drake Pierson kept the game alive with a two-out home run to left to tie the game at 9-9.

Campbell kept on rolling in the 10th, with a leadoff single by Winters. Chandler Riley was hit by a pitch. Harrill’s sacrifice bunt put two runners in scoring position for Thompson, who slapped a 1-1 pitch to right center to plate Howard and win the game.

After being walked 13 times Saturday, the Camels worked only one pass on Sunday, but stayed just as busy on the basepaths by collecting a season-high 19 hits.

Pierson, Harrill, and Arnold all had three hits. Seven Camels had multi-hit games.

Ernie Day started on the mound and allowed four runs over four innings while fanning six. Ty Cummings allowed four runs in two relief innings. Jeremy Wiegman worked one inning with one run scored, and Griffin Parrill faced two batters in the eighth before handing it off to O’Brien.

Campbell begins a nine-game road trip with a 3-game series at Louisiana on Friday at 7 p.m. (ESPN+).

(Campbell media services provided the basis for this report)

Drew Winters singles in thd 10th inning for the Camels.
(Dunn Area Sports Photo/Paul Burgett)

Drake Pierson (6) tied the score at with a homer in the bottom of the ninth.
(Dunn Area Sports Photo/Paul Burgett)

Cameron O’Brien finished on the mound for the Camels.
(Dunn Area Sports Photo/Paul Burgett)