READING, Pa. – Penn College reached its first ever North Eastern Athletic Conference softball championship game after a 4-0 win over SUNY Cobleskill, before falling to Penn State Berks, 3-2, in the finals Saturday in Reading.

Against Cobleskill,
Morgan Heritage tossed a complete-game one-hitter, and Taylor Brooks led the offense with two RBI, to send the Wildcats to the championship game.

Brooks singled in the first inning to bring in Chelsea Gray, who reached on a single, and gave Penn College a 1-0 lead.

The Wildcats tacked on three in the fifth to take a 4-0 advantage. Singles by Gray and Shreiner started the fifth for PCT, and Elizabeth Asher moved them both over with a sacrifice bunt. Brooks smacked a single to right to bring home Gray, and Gillian Sinnott's single to left brought in Shreiner. An error allowed Brooks to touch home and gave the Wildcats all of the offense it needed.

Shreiner finished with three hits for Penn College, while Gray, Brooks, Sinnott, and Shayla Bickel each finished with two hits.

Heritage improved to 11-7 after she fired 5.2 innings of hitless softball en route to a complete-game shutout.

Against Berks,
The Nittany Lions added two runs in the second inning on Jess Rozick's two-run double to right center. Penn College got a run in the third when Shreiner's single to right brought in Bickel.

Berks brought home the eventual winning run in the third inning on an infield single, before PCT pulled within one, 3-2, when Sinnott's single up the middle scored Bickel.

The Wildcats went down in order in the final two innings and stranded six runners on base during the game.

Bickel paced Penn College's offense with two hits.

Kassidy Svenson fell to 6-4 after 3.1 innings in the circle. She allowed three earned runs, on seven hits, with one strikeout, and one walk. Kayla Benner (1 IP, 1 H, 1 BB) and Heritage (1.2 IP, 1 H, 3 Ks, 2 BB) finished off the game for Penn College.