BIRMINGHAM, AL – For the first time this season, the Kentucky State University baseball team dropped both ends of a doubleheader, falling to Miles College, 7-3 and 2-0, Saturday at Rickman Field in Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action.

GAME ONE: MILES 7, KENTUCKY STATE 3
Miles claimed the early lead with a single run in the second inning and two more in the third inning, before Kentucky State took advantage of a Golden Bears miscue in the fourth.

A two-out bases loaded error enabled sophomore Robby Shank (Shepherdsville, KY) and senior Jay Poullard (Louisville, KY) to scamper across the plate. After a walk by senior Russell Sims (Harrodsburg, KY) loaded the bases, sophomore Dom Lawson (Bloomfield, KY) drew an RBI walk to knot the game.

A sacrifice fly pushed across an unearned Miles run in the fifth inning, and it tacked on some two-out insurance runs in the sixth inning.

Sims, Shank and Poullard finished with three singles to account for the Thorobreds' hits.

Junior Greg Tye, 5-1, (Knoxville, TN) suffered his first loss of the season, allowing four runs (two earned) on just three hits with seven strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings of action.

GAME TWO: MILES 2, KENTUCKY STATE 0
Kentucky State was limited to a pair of hits, singles by sophomore Adren Thompson (Lexington, KY) and freshman Jace Wilson (Shepherdsville, KY), in falling 2-0 in the nightcap.

Miles recorded its runs in the third and fifth innings.

Senior Joe Crisp, 3-3, (Shelbyville, KY) allowed just two earned runs on eight hits in six innings of work.

Kentucky State (16-9-1 overall, 6-4 SIAC) looks to even the series with a doubleheader 1 p.m. Sunday.