WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Penn College remained perfect in the North Eastern Athletic Conference with a two game sweep against SUNY Cobleskill in a softball doubleheader Friday. The Wildcats improved to 8-0 NEAC, 12-5 overall after a 4-0 win in game one, and an 11-0 blanking in the nightcap.
In game one,
The Wildcats backed four innings of hitless pitching from
Taylor Brooks with a run in the second and fourth innings, and a pair of runs in the third.
A wild pitch in the second plated
Sophie Coldsmith in the second inning before
Maddie Wenk sacrificed in
Becky Schweikert in the third and
Kylie Shreiner's RBI single to right plated Brooks to make it 3-0. Another wild pitch in the fourth scored
Laycee Clark.
Brooks led the Wildcats offense with two hits and anchored the defense with a complete-game win. She improved to 4-1 after seven innings or work, with 11 strikeouts, two walks and three hits.
In game two,
After taking a 1-0 lead in the second, following
Alyssa Gentile's RBI single to center, Penn College's bats erupted in the third inning with 10 runs.
Wenk scored Brooks and
Tiana McCormick with a single to center before a RBI double by Shreiner and two-run double from Coldsmith made it 6-0. Krow's single to center allowed Gentile and Coldsmith to cross home made it 8-0, before RBIs from Brooks, Wenk, and Shreiner plated three more runs.
Shreiner, Gentile, and
Amanda Kustanbauter all picked up two hits for the Wildcats.
Kustanbauter improved to 4-4 after five innings of work. She allowed two hits, with one strikeout and two walks.
Penn College returns to action Saturday, 12 p.m., hosting SUNY Poly.
