PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- The sixth-seeded University of Pikeville women's soccer team is back in the Mid-South Conference Championship for the first time since 2011, taking on No. 3-seed Campbellsville at 6 p.m. ET on Friday in first-round action at Finley Stadium.
Live video is being provided for free by the Tigers, while live stats are also available on the NAIA DakStats site.
Friday's winner advances to the semifinals at 3 p.m. ET next Thursday in Campbellsville against either No. 2-seed Cumberland (Tenn.) or No. 7-seed St. Catharine.
In the regular-season meeting with the Tigers, UPIKE lost 5-0 on Oct. 16 in a game moved to Shelby Valley High School. Bear goalkeeper Chelsea Schulte collected 10 saves, but Mhairi Fyfe tallied a game-high two goals as the Tigers outshot the Bears 23-2 overall.
Campbellsville (12-6, 5-2 MSC) enters Friday on a seven-game winning streak, including a 9-0 rout of Cumberlands on Saturday and three other MSC shutouts (UPIKE 5-0, Shawnee State (Ohio) 5-0, St. Catharine 7-0). Fyfe was a force for the Tigers all season, tallying a single-season, program-record 20 goals and seven assists for 47 total points.
UPIKE (8-8, 2-5) has won the most games since 2008 already, but has lost five straight, last winning on Oct. 13 3-2 at West Virginia Tech. The Bears haven't won a conference game since topping Cumberlands 3-2 on Sept. 27. In the last five games, UPIKE has been outscored 22-1.
Kaitlyn Abdon is UPIKE's leader with 12 goals, while three players are tied as the leading distributors with two assists each (Abdon, Jasmine Davis, Olivia Gipson).
