PEORIA, Ill. – Senior pitcher Mackenzie Camp saved one of her best outings of the year for the final home game of her career, giving up just one unearned run in a complete game 3-1 win to help Bradley split a doubleheader with Missouri State Sunday afternoon at Laura Bradley Park.

Missouri State took the opener 3-1 to eliminate the Braves from the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, but Camp and the Braves ended the season on a high note with a 3-1 victory in the nightcap. 

Bradley (23-29 overall, 8-17 MVC) left 11 runners on base in the opener and was unable to capitalize on numerous scoring opportunities as Missouri State (22-29 overall, 13-12 MVC) held on for a 3-1 win.  The Bears took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, scoring the first run of the day on a double steal.

The Braves loaded the bases in the bottom of the third inning on consecutive two-out singles by Alex Chandler, Brianne Joseph and Alyson Clemente, but couldn't push a run across and Missouri State had a 2-0 lead following a Mary Stephens RBI single in the fifth.

A pinch hit Rebecca McPherson double and triple off the bat of Kerri Cunningham led to another Missouri State run in the top of the sixth to give the Bears a 3-0 advantage, before Bradley snapped a streak of 21 consecutive innings without a run with a score in the bottom half of the inning.

Sophomore Lexi Cremeens opened the inning with a pinch-hit single and Bradley loaded the bases on singles by Madeline Lynch-Crumrine and Brittany Burgess for freshman Rachel Huggins, who drove in a run with a pinch-hit groundout to cut the MSU lead to 3-1.  Missouri State hurler Chelsea Jones retired the next batter she faced, however, to get out of the inning as the Braves left a pair of runners in scoring position.

Bradley had a pair of base runners on in the bottom of the seventh after a hit batter and Kendall Duffy single, but the Braves were unable to push another run across as the 3-1 loss eliminated BU from contention for the final spot in the upcoming MVC Tournament.

Lynch-Crumrine took the loss in the circle for Bradley in the day's first game, finishing the year with a 14-16 record.  Camp pitched 1.2 scoreless innings out of the bullpen in the opener, striking out four and walking one.

Camp carried that momentum into the second game, holding Missouri State to just four hits and one unearned run in a complete victory.  She struck out two in the win, which gave her a career-best nine victories (9-12) on the year. 

Junior Alex Chandler gave Bradley an early lead with a solo homer in the bottom of the first inning, belting her team-best sixth home run of the year.

Missouri State struck for a run in the top of the fourth on the second RBI single of the day by Stephens, but the Bears left a pair of runners on and the Braves held a 2-1 lead after junior Marina Groenewegen belted a two-out solo homer in the bottom half of the fourth.

After giving up four hits in the first four innings, Camp settled down to hold Missouri State hitless in the final three frames and cruised to the win.  Bradley added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth to build a 3-1 lead.  Cremeens drew a two-out walk and Lynch-Crumrine followed with a double to put runners at second and third.  Groenewegen drove in her second run of the game with a single through the left side and Camp retired Missouri State in order in the top of the seventh to close out the win.