UTICA, N.Y. – Penn College got back to its winning ways with a North Eastern Athletic Conference softball sweep of SUNY Poly Saturday. Penn College won the first game 3-1 and the nightcap 5-2, and improved to 14-6 NEAC, 18-11 overall.

In game one,
Penn College plated all the runs it needed in the first inning to take an early 3-0. Elizabeth Asher smacked a single to leftfield to bring in Alyssa Gentile and Taylor Brooks before Tiana McCormick brought in Maddie Wenk with a single to right.

Poly got a run back in the fifth but didn't manage any more.

McCormick finished with a team-high three hits for Penn College and Brooks finished with two.

Brooks improved to 6-2 after five innings, with one run on three hits, eight strikeouts and five walks. Amanda Kustanbauter closed out the game and picked up a save by scattering two hits and striking out one.

In game two,
Penn College took a 1-0 lead in the third inning after Kassie Winters' single to center that scored Brooks. Poly evened the game in the bottom of the third before an error scored Gentile in the sixth and Poly evened the game in the bottom of the sixth.

PCT added the winning runs in the seventh inning by tacking on three. Wenk's fielder's choice scored a run and error plated two more.

Winters led PCT with three hits and improved to 7-3 in the circle after six innings. She allowed two earned runs on seven hits, one strikeout and one walk. Kustanbauter picked up her second save of the day after closing out the seventh.

Penn College returns to action Sunday, 12 p.m., at SUNY Cobleskill.