WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Penn College went 1-1 on the first day of the United East softball championship tournament Monday. The Wildcats beat Penn State Abington, 5-0, before falling to Penn State Berks, 3-2.
Penn College will take on Penn State Harrisburg, 11 a.m., Tuesday in an elimination game. Penn State Berks will battle the winner of that contest at 1 p.m. If Berks loses the 1 p.m. contest, the champion will be decided in a 3 p.m. game.
Against Abington,
Penn College got on the board in the third inning when an error scored
Jordan Specht and
Hailey DeBrody's sacrifice plated
Lexi Snyder.
Maddie Hurst's triple in the sixth made it 3-0, Specht brought in a run on a sac fly, and
Ivvy Morder made it 5-0 with a double to center field.
Specht, Snyder, Morder, and
Margaret Mangene all picked up two hits for the Wildcats. Mackenzie Weaver improved to 16-4 after seven innings of work. She scattered three hits, struck out two, and walked one.
Against Berks,
The Lions took a 2-0 lead in the third on a pair of unearned runs before Snyder tied the game at 2-2 when her single to right brought in Hurst and Mangene. Berks scored the eventual game-winning run in the fourth and held the Wildcats scoreless the final three innings.
Hurst led Penn College with two hits. Weaver took the loss in the circle after firing seven innings. She allowed one earned run, on 11 hits, with four strikeouts and zero walks.
