PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- Get out the brooms as the University of Pikeville baseball team registered its first series sweep of the season after taking down visiting Goshen (Ind.) 13-4 and 13-7 on Sunday at Johnnie LeMaster Field.

The Bears improve to 7-4 on the season, while the Maple Leafs fall to 0-4 after losing four straight to open the season in Pikeville.

Bryce Carden picked up his first win of 2017 in the opener after scattering eight hits for three runs with seven strikeouts in six innings. Game two's win went to Max Hall who lasted three innings, allowing three runs on seven hits with one strikeout.

Anthony Roberts supplied the fireworks in game one with a two-run home run in the first inning to put the Bears up 2-1. Daniel Sterenberg, Alec Barba, Justin Beatty and Jorge Perez all added doubles later on to preserve the win.

Game two's standouts were Barba with two hits and two RBIs, including the games only triple, as well as Sterernberg with a double, RBI and two walks. Haen and Beatty also had multiple hits in the game with two each.

GAME ONE - UPIKE 13, Goshen 4

UPIKE fell behind by a run twice, in the first and third innings, before piling on 11 runs in the final four frames. The tide changed in the fourth when UPIKE struck for four runs on four hits, including a 2-RBI double by Beatty to end the scoring.

Now up 6-3, the Bears scored two more in the fifth and a whopping five more in the sixth to put the game away, all while reliever Chase McKinney finished things off for Carden in the seventh.

That's not to say there wasn't a little drama during McKinney's appearance as Goshen's Preston Carr led off with a home run to right field. But that would be the last run scored as the next two batters flew out, then after a hit batter and shallow single, McKinney got another fly out to end the game.

Vincent Caschera led the Maple Leafs with two hits and two RBIs and Carr matched him with two hits and the one run scored on his homer. Apart from driving in two runs and scoring two himself, UPIKE's Daniel Sterenberg also added a stolen base to his totals.

GAME TWO - UPIKE 13, Goshen 5

After falling behind yet again at 2-0 in the first inning, UPIKE rallied to make a quick comeback, getting one run back in the first, followed by a game-tying run in the second off a Peyton Dove groundout.

The Maple Leafs briefly went ahead 3-2 on Quinlan Armstrong's fielder's choice hit in the third, but the Bears bounced back in a big way with a five-run third on four hits. Two of the runs scored on wild pitches by Spenser Triplett, who took the loss after scattering seven hits for seven runs in three innings of work.

Goshen got to reliever James Brooks for two runs in the fourth inning to cut the deficit to two, but Brooks' offense was there to pick him up with four runs in the bottom of the inning. Two runs scored on a Barba single and the others were walked in a came home on a bases-loaded fielder's choice.

Spotted an 11-5 lead, UPIKE relievers Tommy McCormick and Dove pitched an inning each to end the game, with each allowing just one more run to cross the plate.

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UPIKE will take a day off before hosting Asbury at 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

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