PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- For the second time this season, the University of Pikeville softball team gave up a seventh-inning lead against a top-10 opponent, losing to No. 5 Campbellsville 5-4 in 11 innings in game two of a Saturday doubleheader.

The Tigers claimed a 9-2 win in the opener to improve to 28-7 overall and 13-1 in the Mid-South Conference. With the losses, UPIKE drops to 11-18 overall and 5-9 in league play.

Late last month, the Bears led No. 9 Lindsey Wilson 6-3 in the final inning before giving up four runs. On Saturday, UPIKE was up 4-3 on Campbellsville in the seventh before a pair of one-out walks led to a sacrifice bunt squeeze play to tie the score and send the game into extra innings.

No. 5 Campbellsville 9, UPIKE 2

UPIKE scattered eight hits in the opener, but wasn't able to turn them into enough runs in a 9-2 loss to Campbellsville.

Victoria Decker got the win in the circle after allowing just two runs on seven hits with seven strikeouts and no walks in six innings of work.

Jacqueline Roof, Adrean Jordan, Destiney Taul and Madison Mudd combined for 10 hits and seven RBIs to pace the Tiger offense.

Lindsay Floyd took the loss after allowing nine runs on nine hits with three strikeouts and two walks in seven innings.

The game got away from the Bears in the second inning when Mudd gave Campbellsville a boost with a three-run home run. A two-run third helped bring the Bears within one, but The Tigers added four runs in the fourth to help put things away.

Campbellsville's final three runs scored on a three-run blast by Roof.

No one from UPIKE had multiple hits in the loss, but Amber Murrell and Jillian Bohnert each drove in runs with their base hits.

No. 5 Campbellsville 5, UPIKE 4 (11 inn.)

Campbellsville needed 11 innings to finish off UPIKE in a 5-4 win in game two.

The top of the first saw the Tigers take an early 2-0 lead, but UPIKE started to claw back in the second inning with two tying runs on RBI singles from Hollie Hinkle and Cassandra Javier.

UPIKE eventually took the lead with one run in both the third and fourth innings. The go-ahead run came home on an RBI single from Floyd while Logan Cline added some insurance with a hard-hit ball to short that wasn't handled, allowing Javier to come home.

But after scoring single runs in the sixth and seventh innings, Campbellsville got the best of the Bears in extra innings, taking a lead in the eleventh on an RBI single by Hailey Szpila. UPIKE had Carla Mullins on third with one out in the bottom of the inning, but she was tagged out at the plate after trying to advance on a fly out by Hinkle.

Murrell, Floyd and Hinkle all finished with two hits each for the Bears, including one double for Murrell.

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UPIKE and Campbellsville will close out the series with a 1 p.m. ET doubleheader on Sunday at Paul Butcher Field.

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