PIPPA PASSES, Ky. -- For the second straight season, the University of Pikeville softball team has reached 20 wins after sweeping Alice Lloyd in the regular-season finales on Thursday.

UPIKE (20-27) now enters the postseason where it will be the No. 4 seed at the Mid-South Conference Tournament taking on fifth-seeded St. Catharine (Ky.) at Noon ET on April 29 at Buchanon Park in Bowling Green, Ky.

On Thursday, the Bears used a big seventh inning to win game one 13-7 before taming the Eagles (0-24) 10-6 in game two.

UPIKE 13, Alice Lloyd 7

An eight-run seventh inning took UPIKE past Alice Lloyd 13-7 in the opener on Thursday.

The big inning happened on an RBI triple by Hollie Hinkle, a three-run double by Logan Cline, two-run single by Amber Murrell, an RBI single by Hinkle and a wild pitch.

The teams had traded runs for most of the contest prior to the lead going to UPIKE for good in the final inning.

Hinkle paced the offense, racking up four RBIs on four hits, while Mackenzie Summers chipped in with a 3-for-4 showing, including a solo home run and a double.

Lindsay Floyd got the win in the circle despite allowing seven runs on nine hits over seven innings of work. Floyd struck out eight batters and walked two.

Alice Lloyd got an early boost from starting pitcher Morgan Albury who hit a three-run blast in the second inning to take a 4-1 lead. But time ran out on Albury late in the game as the Bears started to rally in front. With the score tied 6-6, Lesley Roberts took over and took the loss after giving up six runs on five hits in just one inning.

UPIKE 10, Alice Lloyd 6

Game two saw UPIKE outhit Alice Lloyd 13-9, including two home runs by Jill Bohnert to go from a 3-2 deficit to a 10-4 lead after the sixth inning.

The Bears opened up the scoring in the first inning with two runs on a Bohnert double and Murrell single, but the Eagles bounced back with three go-ahead runs in the third as Alice Lloyd racked up five hits.

Down by a run, UPIKE started to put the Eagles away with eight runs over the next three frames. Summer roped a two-run triple in the fourth, Bohnert hit a two-run homer in the fifth and added a solo blast in the sixth to build a six-run lead.

After Alice Lloyd reached on an infield error to lead off the seventh, Roberts, the losing pitcher from game one, hit a home run to bring the deficit down to four. But the rally ended there as Alexandra Quill got a strikeout, fly out and groundout to bring the game to a close.

Quill took the win after scattering nine hits for six runs with eight strikeouts in seven innings, while Catherine Webb took the loss after giving up 10 runs on 13 hits with three strikeouts.

Bohnert and Murrell paced the Bears with three hits each to combine for five RBIs, including four from Bohnert.

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