Lions Split With Altoona in AMCC Games of the Week

ALTOONA, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend softball team split with Penn State Altoona in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Games of the Week on Saturday.

Scores
Penn State Altoona 6, Penn State Behrend 3
Penn State Behrend 10, Penn State Altoona 0 (6 innings)

Game 1
* In game one, Behrend fell to Altoona, 6-3
* The Behrend Lions took a 2-0 lead in the third inning, with Kylee Bundy (DuBois, PA/DuBois) singling to right field, sending two runs home
* The Altoona Lions answered, scoring two in the bottom of the third
* Behrend regained the lead in the sixth, 3-2 after a Maria Jones (Wilcox, PA/Johnsonburg) double to left center
* Altoona scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth to take a 6-3 lead, a lead Behrend could not overcome
* Alaina Wyckoff (Elma, Ny/Iroquois Central) pitched 5.1 innings and Jones came in in relief for just two outs, striking out both

Game 2
* Behrend won the second game of the series against the Altoona Lions, 10-0 in six innings
* This is the Behrend Lions first shutout of the season
* The game was scoreless for two innings until Behrend took one run in the third
* Marissa Torretti (DuBois, PA/DuBois) had a sacrifice bunt to send Maddie Smith (DuBois, PA/DuBois) to third and Bundy grounded out to second to send her home and receive an RBI
* The Behrend Lions continued to hit, scoring three runs in the fifth and six in the sixth
* Behrend tallied three in the fifth off one hit from Torretti and two Altoona errors
* In the sixth, the Behrend Lions registered seven hits for six runs
* Mackenzie McIntire (Stoneboro, PA/Lakeview) and Ashleigh Schmidt (Sarver, PA/Freeport) had back-to-back hits followed by a single from Smith, sending home a run
* Torretti hit a blast to left center to send in a run, followed by two RBIs off a single from Bundy
* Behrend scored the fifth run on two errors by Altoona followed by a hit from Samantha Manioci (Rochester, NY/Odyssey Academy) sending Bundy home
* Schmidt improved to 3-1 on the season pitching a complete game with four strikeouts

Up Next
* Penn State Behrend will take on Pitt-Greensburg tomorrow in AMCC action at home at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.