PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- It proved it belonged, but in the end came up just short, as the University of Pikeville softball team saw its 10-game winning streak snapped by 4-2 and 16-8 losses at No. 4 Campbellsville on Thursday in the Mid-South Conference openers for both programs.

Campbellsville moves to 20-3 overall, while UPIKE is now 14-8. The teams will meet for two more games at Noon ET on Friday.

To show just how close it was, the Bears forced extra innings in game one after scoring a run on Kelsey White's single in the seventh before Tori Humphrey hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the eighth. In game two, UPIKE held an 8-7 lead heading into the fifth inning before the Tigers pulled away in the last two frames as the hits added up.

The pitching losses went to Hannah Skaggs (7-4) in the opener after she scattered five hits for three earned runs with four strikeouts in a full seven innings. Megan Claypoole (7-4) lost game two after allowing 15 runs on 12 hits without a strikeout in five innings.

Neely Quint stayed perfect at 13-0 with the game-one win as she had six strikeouts and no walks with two runs allowed on six hits in a complete eight innings. Campbellsville had to go to Karson Williams out of the bullpen to win game two as she logged her first win of the season. Williams didn't allow a run and only gave up three hits in two innings before Quint returned to close things out in the seventh for the save.

Morgan Gailor, the game two starter, allowed eight runs on six hits in three innings before being replaced in the fourth inning.

UPIKE outhit the Tigers 6-5 in game one, led by Lee Collier going 3-for-4 with an RBI double, before the Tigers led game two in hits 13-9. Still, Chandler Kelly, Haley Osborne, Hannah Absher and White all had two hits each.

Absher provided the fireworks during her 2-for-3 performance as her 3-run homer to left field in the third put the Bears up 8-5. However, UPIKE wouldn't score again and Campbellsville got hot late, scoring 11 runs over the next four innings, including five in the fifth and fourth in the sixth to pull away and end the game early in the sixth inning.

Game one was much different as the Tigers put two runs on the board in the first inning on a triple by Humphrey and error in right field, but didn't score again off Skaggs over the next six frames. In that span, UPIKE made it a one-run game in the third on Collier's single to center before tying the game in the seventh on White's single hit past the pitcher.

Kelly's lead-off double and a sac bunt by Claypoole set up the big moment for White.

But after Collier doubled with two outs in the top of the eighth, she tried to score from second on Kitty Raymond's hit to center, but was thrown out at the plate. The big defensive play by centerfielder Brianna Scott led to her teammate Humphrey ending it with a two-run shot to left field with no outs.

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