LAURINBURG, N.C. -- Dalton Dahley threw a complete-game shutout in the season opener to help the University of Pikeville baseball team come away with a split at St. Andrews, winning 3-0 and losing 4-1 on Saturday afternoon.

Dahley struck out six and walked two while allowing just three hits to get the year started on the right foot. He only got four hits from his offense, but catcher Justin Beatty's RBI double in the top of the first ended up being enough to get the win.

Game two saw UPIKE (1-1) leave 12 runners on base as it fell behind 4-0 in the first inning and wasn't able to string together the hits to come back.

GAME ONE - UPIKE 3, St. Andrews 0

UPIKE had four players tally one hit each while Dahley heated up from the mound, including centerfielder Josh Bailey, third baseman Travis Haen, Beatty and shortstop Jorge Perez.

Bailey opened the game by reaching on a walk, one of three for the game, then stole one of his two bases on the day to be in position to score on Beatty's double to left field.

The pair teamed up again in the third inning as Beatty lifted a sacrifice fly to left to score Bailey who had opened the frame with a single, then moved to second on a stolen base. Haen cued up the sac-fly run by laying down a sacrifice bunt to move Bailey to third.

UPIKE added an insurance run in the seventh as first baseman Jay Vincent walked, then later scored on Haen's single. Starter Trevor Maly took the loss after allowing two runs on three hits with three walks and eight strikeouts in six innings of work.

GAME TWO - St. Andrews 4, UPIKE 1

There would be no early cushion for the Bears this time around as St. Andrews got to starter Bryce Carden for four runs in the first inning. Carden would end up finishing the game with six shutout frames, but the four runs on five hits to start the game were too much to overcome.

St. Andrews struck first with a bases-loaded walk, then added a run on Trey Bird's single and finally two more on another single by J.R. Polak. The inning got away from the Bears after three straight singles loaded the bases.

Carden would go on to allow just four more hits the rest of the game to go along with three strikeouts and a walk.

But while Carden shut down the bats, UPIKE could never get its going with runners in scoring position, waiting until the seventh inning to score its lone run on an RBI single by Anthony Roberts. Haen, Beatty and Roberts all finished with two hits in the loss.

Holden Drake received the win, allowing just one hit in three innings with two strikeouts and five walks.

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UPIKE and St. Andrews will play two more at Noon ET on Sunday.

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