Great Crossing switched its spring break baseball destination in Florida this season, opting for a closer, straighter shot to the panhandle in Fort Walton Beach.

After the past three April journeys to Vero Beach yielded a total of 10 wins, those good fortunes haven’t yet followed the Warhawks to the Gulf Coast.

GC tasted defeat in its first three Florida contests, two by a single run in the opponents’ final at-bat at Preston Hood Athletic Complex.

Twelve unanswered runs powered Campbellsville to a 15-8 win over Great Crossing on Sunday night.

Pitchers’ duels prevailed Monday in a 2-1 loss to LaRue County and 1-0, eight-inning verdict Wednesday against Barren County.

Levi Hamon belted a three-run home run for GC in the top of the third inning. The Warhawks scored six in that frame and exploded to an 8-4 lead.

Campbellsville (11-1), No. 23 in this week’s Prep Baseball Kentucky statewide rankings, roared back with seven runs in its half of that session. The Eagles clawed for three more runs in the fourth inning and one in the fourth.

Seven of Campbellsville’s 11 hits went for extra bases. Bryson Turpin and Mason Willis each homered. Remy Brown and Kace Eastridge both belted a triple. Eastridge, Dax Gray and Ty Burwash all delivered doubles.

Eastridge knocked in three runs and was a multiple hitter along with Gray and Griffin Howard.

Turpin, Brown and Willis had three RBI apiece for Campbellsville, which also scored double-digit runs in shutout wins over Lafayette (12-0 on Monday) and Nicholas County (13-0 on Tuesday).

Hayden Kirby was 2-for-4 with an RBI for Great Crossing (3-5). Eli Adkins doubled and knocked in a pair. Brayden Beckett singled, walked twice and stole a base. Chase Little and Collier Curtis also chalked up base hits.

Colton Warren and Landon Williams were the most effective of five Great Crossing pitchers, allowing no earned runs in a combined 2 2/3 innings of relief.

Campbellsville supplemented its powerful attack with a dozen walks.

No. 18 LaRue County (9-3) scored its winning run in the top of the seventh.

Braden Brooks singled with two out. Pinch runner Ryan Edwards advanced to second on a balk, then scored on a hit by Kasen McDowell.

GC jumped out 1-0 in the first when Beckett walked, went to third on Curtis’ single and scored on Hamon’s sacrifice fly.

LaRue leveled the score an inning later. Ryan Hughes and Cole Miller both singles and advanced on Kobe Cahoe’s bunt. Brady Abell grounded into a tying fielder’s choice.

Warren and Curtis turned a double play to help starter Sutton Holbrook’s cause the fourth, and LaRue ran into other outs on the basepaths to end two of the first four frames.

The Warhawks returned the favor by hitting into twofers in both the third and fourth innings.

Holbrook scattered four hits and struck out four over his six innings. The Hawks scratched out their run at the expense of Curtis in the seventh.

Great Crossing absorbed its fourth consecutive loss to a top 25 foe after traveling to No. 11 Madison Central and No. 1 Trinity before the Sunshine State excursion.

LaRue County flexed its muscles again with an 8-0 win over No. 5 Sayre on Tuesday.

Parker Covington of GC and Skylar Potter of Barren County exchanged goose eggs through regulation in their showdown.

Neither reached 90 pitches on the day. Potter struck out six, walked one and allowed only two hits. Covington also crafted a two-hitter with one strikeout and one walk.

The run against Covington was unearned, a product of the now-familiar major league tiebreaker that puts a runner on second base at the start of extra innings.

Tyler Mullannix was the ghost runner for Great Crossing, and Eli King immediately bunted him to third after a pair of unsuccessful pickoff attempts.

That gave the Warhawks two chances to get a ball out of the infield and push home the go-ahead run.

Potter coaxed Braden Fannin into a first-pitch floater into shallow left field, not deep enough to plate Mullannix. 

Adkins then popped a 2-1 offering to second base.

The Trojans took care of business with a sacrifice bunt, followed by a sacrifice fly from Colten Wilson to end the game.

Jaxon Vincent and Cash McGuire each cracked a double for the only Barren County hits. 

Curtis and Hamon had the singles against Potter.

Held without a hit through four innings, GC had its best chances in the fifth and seventh.

Hamon singled to lead off the fifth, and pinch runner Evan Hamilton swiped second. A popout, groundout and strikeout left him in scoring position.

Curtis singled with one out in the seventh and stole the next base after a second out. That persuaded Barren County to intentionally walk Evan Duvall.

Mullannix worked otter to a full count before popping out to first base.

Great Crossing took on Daviess County on Thursday after press time. The Warhawks wrap up the trip Friday against Taylor County.

They open 41st District action with a series against reigning champion Western Hills on Tuesday at home and Wednesday in Frankfort.