FRANKFORT, Ky. – Snapping a five-game losing streak in the series couldn't have come at a better time as the third-seeded University of Pikeville men's basketball team held on for a 74-67 win over No. 2-seed Georgetown to advance to the Mid-South Conference Tournament finals.

UPIKE (26-6) will be making its sixth appearance in the championship game where it will face top-seeded Life (Ga.) at 4:30 p.m. ET on Sunday in the Frankfort Convention Center. The Bears are 3-2 in the championship round all time, last winning it in 2014 with a win over Georgetown in Lebanon, Tenn.

Georgetown (23-7) had logged a pair of double-digit wins over the Bears during the regular season, but that wasn't the case on Saturday as the Tigers led just once in the game, at 1-0 on a Quan Poindexter free throw.

That's not to say things didn't get dicey down the stretch as a 70-61 UPIKE lead with two minutes to play turned into just a three-point gap with 48 seconds left after a Troy Steward 3. Trent Gilbert came off the bench for his first action of the game with a chance to tie, but his 3-point attempt was off the mark.

Rze Culbreath and Trey Rakes sealed the win with as both were perfect from the stripe on two shots each in the final 11 seconds.

Jordan Perry led four Bears in double digits with 16 points, scoring 12 of them in the first half. Darrion Leslie chipped in with 15, which all came in the second half. Trey Rakes and Michael Lewis added 12 and 10 points, respectively, with Lewis grabbing a double-double with 11 rebounds.

The teams tied on the glass with 35 rebounds each and UPIKE outshot Georgetown 44 to 40 percent from the field. While the Tigers made one extra 3-pointer with four, the Bears helped make up the difference with four more makes from the free-throw line.

Pointdexter led all scorers with 23 points and Chris Coffer added 15 for the Tigers.

Apart from the late comeback, the majority of the game belonged to UPIKE. It led by as many as 13 points in the first half with the help of an early 9-0 run. Down 36-27 late in the opening half, Georgetown did use a 9-0 run spanning each half to tie the game at 36 all, but about four minutes later the lead was back to 13.

UPIKE 13-0 run early in the second half ended up being enough to hold off Georgetown, even as it surged back into the game in the final two minutes.

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