CAZENOVIA, N.Y. – Penn College dropped four North Eastern Athletic Conference softball games to Cazenovia Friday and Saturday. PCT fell to 6-6 NEAC, 12-15 overall after pair of 4-3 setbacks on Friday and 16-3 and 12-4 losses on Saturday.
Cazenovia did not provide statistics of Friday's doubleheader in time for yesterday's releases.
On Friday,
Penn College took a 3-0 lead after a three run double from
Taylor Krow in the fourth inning of the first game. Cazenovia answered with two runs in the fourth and two in fifth.
Krow finished with three hits for Penn College, while
Maddie Wenk and
Tiana McCormick both picked up a pair of hits.
Amanda Kustanbauter fell to 4-6 after firing a complete game. She allowed four runs on four hits and struck out three.
After
Nicole Lo Furno knocked in a run with a RBI single in the first, Cazenovia scored all of the runs it needed in the bottom of the first frame with four runs.
McCormick's two run single in the fourth made it 4-3 but PCT couldn't get any closer.
Taylor Brooks and
Elizabeth Asher both finished with two hits.
Brooks fell to 4-3 after 5.1 innings of work. She allowed four runs on five hits, struck out 10 and walked eight.
On Saturday,
Cazenovia exploded for 10 runs in the top of first inning of game one before Brooks smacked a two run shot in the bottom of the frame to make it 10-2.
Caz added a run in the third, four in the fourth and one in the fifth to go ahead 16-2, before Penn College brought in a run in the bottom of the fifth on a
Kelsey Gantz RBI single.
Krow led PCT with two hits.
Lauren Stehman fell to 2-3 after one-third innings of work. She allowed five runs on two hits, struck out two and walked two.
Brooks picked up her second round-tripper of the day in the first inning of the second game when she launched a two run bomb to put PCT ahead 2-0. Cazenovia answered with a nine-spot in the second inning before Asher's RBI single in the third made it 9-3.
Both teams traded a run in the sixth, with Krow picking up PCT's on a RBI single.
Krow, Brooks and Wenk all finished with two hits for Penn College. Brooks fell to 4-4 after six innings. She allowed 12 runs (10 earned) on four hits, while striking out seven and walking 14.
Penn College returns to action Sunday, 12 p.m., at Morrisville.