PETERSBURG, Va. -- Tanner Miller's (Elizabethville, Pa./Upper Dauphin) two-run single in the top of the seventh inning brought the Kutztown University baseball team even with Virginia State for the second time, Monday, but the Trojans answered with four runs in the bottom half of the inning to down the Golden Bears, 7-3.

KU, which had its start delayed with the cancellation of last weekend's Builder Invitational, went up against teams with a handful of games already under their belts in UVA-Wise and Virginia State this weekend. The Bears were in every game, but ultimately left Virginia winless in four tries.

Miller's pinch-hit single scored Nick Lafferty (Croydon, Pa./Archbishop Wood) and Mike Villa (Scranton, Pa./West Scranton) to knot the game at three in the seventh, but it was the Maroon and Gold's only hit with runners in scoring position on the afternoon (1-for-7).

The Trojans swiftly recaptured the lead in the bottom of the seventh as Rashad Stewart singled, stole second and later scored on Carl Granderson's bunt single. Sisqo Scott made it 5-3 with an RBI single and Aaron Harris' two-run knock back through the box increased VSU's advantage to four.

Kutztown, which fell behind 1-0 after an inning, tied it up for the first time on Bo Rottet's (Tamaqua, Pa./Tamaqua) sixth-inning sacrifice fly that scored Jake Augustus (Schnecksville, Pa./Northwestern Lehigh). Virginia State (5-3) would take a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the sixth, however, as Scott and Jahleel Sewer hit back-to-back RBI doubles.

Senior pitchers Garrett Alread (Victor, N.Y./Victor) and Jeff Charles (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall) covered the first four innings without allowing a hit to the hosts. The Trojans got to freshmen Noah Davidson (Holland, Pa./Council Rock South) and Nick McAuliffe (Phillipsburg, N.J./Phillipsburg) for six runs, with McAuliffe taking the loss after giving up four runs on four hits in 1.1 innings.

Gavilan Fogarty-Harnish (Ephrata, Pa./Ephrata) recorded three of his four outs by strikeout.

Kutztown, which left seven runners on base, got one hit from six different players. The Golden Bears (0-4) will try to get the bats going during their spring break trip to Wilson, North Carolina, after averaging just over five hits per game this past weekend.

Scott, Sewer and Harris, VSU's 3-4-5 hitters, accounted for six of their team's seven RBIs. Scott was 2-for-3 and scored twice. Lead-off hitter Brian Goodwyn also scored a pair of runs.

Joshua Tayman's two innings of scoreless relief earned him the victory, while Jacob Wells registered the final two outs for the save.

Monday's start time was pushed back two hours to 2 p.m. and the teams scrapped their initial plans for a doubleheader.

The Golden Bears' seven-game, six-day trip to North Carolina begins Friday with a game against Saint Anselm at 7 p.m.