BRADFORD, Pa. – The Penn State Altoona softball team traveled on Friday to face Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference opponent Pitt-Bradford in a doubleheader at the Kessel Athletic Complex.

Pitt-Bradford (16-8, 5-3 AMCC) posted a 7-1 victory in game one, then dealt the Lions (13-12, 6-4 AMCC) an 8-1 loss in game two.

Game One: Pitt-Bradford 7, Penn State Altoona 1

With the score tied 1-1 in the third, Pitt-Bradford scored six unanswered runs to finish the game with a six-run win over Penn State Altoona.

Alyssa Fisher (Lock Haven, PA/Central Mountain) was 2-for-3 with a run scored and a walk, and Cameryn Feathers (Martinsburg, PA/Central) was also 2-for-3 with a walk. Madalyn Maynard (Towanda, PA/Towanda) drew two walks.

Josselyn Nau (Bellefonte, PA/Bellefonte) started at pitchers and suffered the loss, pitching all six innings and allowing five earned runs while striking out three batters.

An error by Penn State Altoona in the bottom of the first inning allowed Pitt-Bradford to score the game's first run, as Faith McLaughlin came home to make it 1-0.

Penn State Altoona tied the score 1-1 in the top of the third. Fisher led off with a walk, and Brooke Colledge (Everett, PA/Everett) followed with a double to put two runners in scoring position. Gianna Hoppel (Lewistown, PA/Mifflin County) plated Fisher with a sacrifice fly to center, and the Lions evened the score at one run apiece.

But the Panthers answered in the bottom half of the third, getting an RBI double from Krislyn Clement to jump back in front, 2-1. Pitt-Bradford added three more runs to its total in the fifth, getting a two-run double from Clement and an RBI single from Meghan Kapp.

The home team went on to score two more runs in the sixth, ending with a six-run advantage over Penn State Altoona by the game's end.

Game Two: Pitt-Bradford 8, Penn State Altoona 1

Penn State Altoona scored first when it got a run across in the top of the first inning, but Pitt-Bradford blanked the Lions the rest of the way while scoring four runs in both the third and sixth innings to clinch another lopsided win.

Feathers finished a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate with an RBI and a stolen base, while Colledge, Fisher, Hoppel, and Maynard also had one hit apiece.

Maynard tossed a complete game in the circle and took the loss, surrendering four earned runs over six innings of work and striking out a pair.

Penn State Altoona nabbed a 1-0 advantage in the top of the first inning. Colledge reached on an infield single with one out, moved up to second base on a passed ball, and scored on Feathers' two-out RBI single to right.

The Lions held their narrow lead until the bottom of the third, when Pitt-Bradford surged ahead with four runs. With three runners on and no outs, Sara Stroup's bases-clearing double to left put the Panthers up. Clement added a sac fly to right one batter later, and the Panthers built a 4-1 advantage by the conclusion of the inning.

Pitt-Bradford padded its lead with four more runs in the bottom of the sixth, using RBI groundouts by Miranda Groll and Clement, along with a two-run double from Lexi Peters, to make it 8-1.

Penn State Altoona softball continues its weekend road trip tomorrow, Saturday, April 20, when the Lions will head to Erie to face conference opponent Penn State Behrend in a doubleheader. That set of games, which has been selected as the AMCC Games of the Week, is scheduled to get underway at 1 p.m.