PIKEVILLE, Ky. – Tiger Baseball was unable to find a victory in two Mid-South Conference bouts against the Pikeville Bears Friday afternoon.
 
Game One: Campbellsville 1, Pikeville 2
 
In the bottom of the 1^st inning, UPIKE was able to attack first after an error was made in the infield. This would be one of four errors made by the defense, but the only one hurting Campbellsville in the long run.
 
The Bears and Tigers would have a few unblemished innings before CU tied up the contest at one apiece. Jorge Gonzalez would walk to start out the top of the 4^th. He would steal second and advance to third on a fly ball. Logan Verble would get the job done with an RBI sacrifice fly to left field, scoring Gonzalez.
 
Zion Payne's day would end after the 5^th giving way to Chad McCann. Payne would go five complete innings giving up three hits and one run with six strikeouts. Zion worked out of three innings with at least one baserunner aboard to keep the game at a stalemate.
 
The two would hold still at one run each until the bottom of the seventh when UPIKE delivered the final blow. An RBI double would give the bears the walk-off 2-1 victory.
 
Eddy Arteaga would go 2-3 on the contest picking up two of the Tigers' four hits. Samio Uze and Grant McQueary would round out the other two CU hits.
 
Game Two: Campbellsville 2, Pikeville 6
 
Timely hits and execution would be the name of the game in the second part of the double-header. The Tigers would outhit the Bears 10 to 6 but drop the contest 6-2.
 
Through the first three innings, we had a pitcher's dual brewing in Eastern Kentucky. In the bottom of the fourth, UPIKE would find the plate first. They used one hit to score two runs, taking the 2-0 lead.
 
Campbellsville would quickly answer back in the top of inning number five. A two-out rally would start from Uze who singled. Up next was the hot bat of Gonzalez who sent a missile over the left field fence. That would be his third homerun of the season.
 
After a scoreless sixth, UPIKE got it rolling again and would gain all the momentum plating three runs. They used three RBI hits in a row to pull ahead. The Bears would then score an insurance run via the squeeze adding another run, 6-2.
 
Ty Crall was great on the mound for Pikeville. He went eight innings, gave up nine hits and two runs.
 
Uze and McQueary would each pick up two hits. Verble, Noah Amenta, Eddy Arteaga, Sam Fagerness, and Kale Seitz finished with one.
 
The Tigers are scheduled to meet Pikeville on the diamond again tomorrow at 12 p.m. ET.