PIKEVILLE, Ky. – The University of Pikeville softball team wrapped up an eight-game spring break week with a split against Newberry College on Wednesday.
 
The week began with a Saturday doubleheader at home against Point (Ga.) before the Bears hit the road for double-dips at Union (Ky.), Montreat (N.C.) and Newberry.
 
The Bears will play at Campbellsville on Saturday as they return to Mid-South Conference play.
 
Bears-Point: The busy week opened with a doubleheader split against visiting Point, winning 6-2 and falling 11-8.
 
Junior Kayla Morgan went the distance in the opener, striking out four and allowing six hits. Junior Hannah Vinson had a pair of doubles and scored twice, while freshman Shantelle Horn had a hit and a pair of RBIs.
 
Senior Mallory George, sophomore Emily Castle and freshmen Shamy Williams and Sarah Kinney all singled.
 
Pikeville rallied with three runs in the bottom of the sixth of the nightcap only to see Point post five in the top of the seventh to win.
 
Williams, Kinney and Vinson had two hits each. Kinney had a pair of doubles while Vinson had her third two-bagger of the day. Williams scored four of Pikeville's eight runs while Kinney and Vinson drove in three apiece.
 
Bears-Union: The Bears dropped a pair to the Bulldogs on Sunday, falling 9-0 and 5-4.
 
Morgan's single in the second was Pikeville's only hit of the opener. In the second game, a three-run third gave the Bears a 4-1 lead, but the Bulldogs scored two in the bottom half and added single runs in the fourth and sixth to win.
 
Williams continued her hot streak with three hits and scored a pair of runs. Morgan, who doubled and drove in two.
 
Bears-Montreat: Pikeville was shut out in both games of a doubleheader as Montreat won 8-0 and 1-0.
 
Freshman Kayla Brown had a third-inning single that stood as the only hit of the opener for the Bears. In the second game, Montreat posted what would be the games' only run in the bottom of the first and made it stand.
 
Sophomore Caitlin Conley allowed only three hits in the second game.
 
Freshman Brandi Jo Howard had two of Pikeville's five hits. Sierra Kiser, Williams and Castle all singled.
 
Bears-Newberry: UPIKE scored a single run in the top of the seventh to win the opener 3-2 before dropping the finale 9-5.
 
Newberry scored two in the bottom of the first and held the lead into the fifth when the Bears posted the first of three one-run innings. Morgan singled in fifth to plate senior Chanoa Bledsoe. Horn tripled in the sixth to score freshman Caitlin Collins, who had doubled.
 
In the seventh, Vinson singled to center to score sophomore Kayla Cantrell who led off with a single.
 
Morgan allowed five hits and struck out three in going the distance.
 
A six-run fifth inning doomed the Bears in game two.
 
Castle had a home run among her two hits, drove in two and scored two. Morgan had a pair of hits as well.
 
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