GREENSBURG, Pa. – The Penn State Altoona softball team racked up two more wins on Thursday, when the Lions swept Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference opponent Pitt-Greensburg in a doubleheader.

Penn State Altoona (19-9, 9-1 AMCC) staged a late comeback and won game one in extra innings, 5-4, before overpowering Pitt-Greensburg (11-15, 5-5 AMCC) by a score of 10-4 in game two.

Game One: Penn State Altoona 5, Pitt-Greensburg 4 (Final/8 innings)

Penn State Altoona overcame a one-run deficit in the seventh to tie the game and ultimately send it into extra innings. The Lions scored in the top of the eighth and held the Bobcats scoreless in the bottom half of the inning to seal the comeback win.

Madison Kennedy (Williamsburg, PA/Central) went 3-for-4 with three runs scored and an RBI, and Alyssa Fisher (Lock Haven, PA/Central Mountain) was 2-for-5 with an RBI.

Josselyn Nau (Bellefonte, PA/Bellefonte) got her 12th win of the season in the pitching circle, going all eight innings and striking out four batters along the way.

Penn State Altoona grabbed a 2-0 lead in the top of the second, getting two-out RBI singles from Kennedy and Fisher. The Lions made it 3-0 in the top of the fourth, when Kennedy led off with a base hit and came around to later score on a Gianna Hoppel (Lewistown, PA/Mifflin County) groundout.

Pitt-Greensburg capitalized with the bases loaded in the bottom of the fourth, when Shelby Cloak's two-out, three-run double to left center knotted the score at 3-3. The Bobcats took the lead in the bottom of the fifth on a Jessica Dunn solo home run.

Penn State Altoona rallied to tie the score in the top of the seventh. Hoppel led off with a single to center, moved up to second on a Hanna Lauck (Bellefonte, PA/Bellefonte) sacrifice bunt, and one batter later, scored on Allison Beeman's (Tyrone, PA/Tyrone) single.

The Lions kept Pitt-Greensburg off the scoreboard in the bottom of the seventh, and the game moved to extra innings. In the top of the eighth, with Kennedy the runner at second to start the frame, Jillian Taylor (Irvona, PA/Glendale) moved her to third on a sac bunt. One batter later, Lauren Davidson's (Clearfield, PA/DuBois Central Catholic) two-out RBI single to center put Penn State Altoona up, 5-4.

In the bottom of the eighth, Pitt-Greensburg got a single to start the inning with two runners aboard. But Nau and the Lions induced a fly out for the first out of the inning, then got a line-out double play to end the game and ice the victory.

Game Two: Penn State Altoona 10, Pitt-Greensburg 4

The Lions got 10 runs across in the second game of the doubleheader, totaling 16 hits as a team and having six different players finish with two or more hits.

Lauck led the way at the plate by going 4-for-5 with a double, two RBI, and a run scored, and Davidson was 3-for-5 with a double and three runs scored.

Karli Storm (Chest Springs, PA/Cambria Heights) hit 2-for-4 with a double, four RBI, and two runs scored, with her two hits getting her to the 100-hit mark for her collegiate career. Hoppel was 2-for-5 with three runs scored, and Beeman and Kennedy were both 2-for-5 with an RBI.

Kennedy started at pitcher and earned her sixth win of the season in a complete-game effort. Across seven innings, she allowed only one earned run on six hits and two walks while striking out a pair.

Penn State Altoona cashed in on a Pitt-Greensburg error in the top of the first. After Hoppel reached on a two-out infield error, Lauck's RBI double to center made it 1-0.

Pitt-Greensburg answered with a run in the bottom half of the first on Dunn's RBI double, tying the score at 1-1. The Bobcats proceeded to take the lead in the second, getting an RBI single from Gabriella Grabiak and a run-scoring groundout by Autumn Powell to go up 3-1.

Penn State Altoona knotted the score in the third. After singles by Davidson, Lauck, and Kennedy loaded the bases, a two-out, two-run single from Beeman made it 3-3.

Penn State Altoona again scored in a two-out situation in the fourth. With two down, singles from Davidson and Hoppel kept the inning alive, and Lauck put her team back into the lead with her RBI base hit to right. The next batter, Storm, reached on an error, which allowed Hoppel to score and put the Lions up by two, 5-3.

Pitt-Greensburg made it a one-run game in the bottom of the fifth, when Cloak's fielder's choice brought Grabiak home from third. But Penn State Altoona answered in the next frame, when Storm's two-run double to center brought home Hoppel and Lauck, giving the Lions a 7-4 advantage. Later in the inning, a Haleigh Peters (Lock Haven, PA/Central Mountain) RBI base hit increased Penn State Altoona's lead to four runs.

The Lions boosted their lead to 10-4 in the top of the seventh, when Storm's RBI double and Kennedy's RBI single gave Penn State Altoona a six-run advantage.

Penn State Altoona returns home to face AMCC opponent Penn State Behrend tomorrow, Friday, April 18, in a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.