Western Kentucky got a career performance on the mound by starting pitcher Josh Bartley to earn a Conference USA baseball doubleheader split Saturday against host UAB.

The two teams combined for just five total runs in the doubleheader as the Blazers claimed a 2-0 triumph in Game 1 before WKU (15-11 overall, 4-4 C-USA) won the second game of the day 2-1.

In the victory, Bartley pitched the longest outing of the year by a WKU pitcher by throwing 7 2/3 innings of shutout baseball to pick up his fourth win of the season. The lone Blazers’ run came against Jackson Sowell, who closed out the final 1 1/3 innings to secure his fifth save.

Harrison Scanlon delivered the biggest hit of the day for the Hilltoppers, driving in the two runs of the second game in the top of the fourth. Scanlon was one of two Tops to register a hit in both games, joined by Paul Murray who went 2-for-4 with a double in Game 2.

WKU’s Danny Hudzina smacked his seventh double of the year, but saw his career-long hitting streak stopped at 29 after going hitless in Game 1. It was the second-longest streak of consecutive games with a hit in program history, with Matt Rice holding the record with a hit in 31 straight in 2009.

The first game of the day was another pitching duel between WKU’s Austin King and Ryan Ruggles of the Blazers. Ruggles held the Hilltoppers to a season-low two hits.

King struck out six batters in seven innings and allowed two runs on six hits.

UAB (11-16, 3-5 C-USA) tagged King for a run in each of the first and fifth innings in Saturday’s opening game.

Sunday’s rubber game will start at 1 p.m. from Young Memorial Field, with left-handed pitcher Ryan Thurston getting the start for the Hilltoppers against LHP Adam Lamar of UAB.