ALTOONA, Pa. – The Penn State Altoona softball team started its Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference schedule on Saturday afternoon with a doubleheader against Alfred State College at Stewart Athletic Field.

Alfred State (4-10, 1-1 AMCC) earned a 5-1 victory in game one, but Penn State Altoona (7-8, 1-1 AMCC) came back to take game two 4-0.

Game One: Alfred State 5, Penn State Altoona 1

Penn State Altoona was unable to get its offense going, managing just one run while Alfred State put five on the board.

Cameryn Feathers (Martinsburg, PA/Central) went 2-for-3 with one run batted in and a stolen base. Olivia Smith (Martinsburg, PA/Central) was 1-for-3 with a run scored, and Brooke Boone (Petersburg, PA/Juniata Valley), Jayde Burge (Philipsburg, PA/Philipsburg-Osceola), and Gianna Hoppel (Lewistown, PA/Mifflin County) also had hits for the Lions.

Casey Reese (Cresson, PA/Penn Cambria) pitched 4 1/3 innings and took the loss for Penn State Altoona, yielding five runs while striking out a pair. Makenzie Lukehart (Utahville, PA/Glendale) tossed 2 2/3 scoreless innings in relief.

Alfred State scored in the top of the first inning when Felecia Capito's groundout drove Kaylee Griffith home from third, but Penn State Altoona tied the score 1-1 in the bottom half of the inning on Feathers' RBI single to right.

The Pioneers reclaimed the lead in the second, however, when Brittany Fisher scored on a wild pitch. Alfred State went on to post a three-run fifth inning, using RBI singles from Lauryn Engle, Fisher, and Skylar Shaulis to extend its lead to 5-1.

Game Two: Penn State Altoona 4, Alfred State 0

The Lions' bats turned things around in the second game, as nine different Penn State Altoona hitters finished with at least one hit and the team posted 11 hits as a unit. Meanwhile, the team got a shutout pitching performance in the circle.

Kristen Hewitt (Coalport, PA/Glendale) and Lukehart each went 2-for-3 with a run scored, while Burge, Alyssa Fisher (Lock Haven, PA/Central Mountain), and Smith each picked up an RBI.

Fisher pitched a complete game shutout for her fourth win of the season. In seven innings, she kept Alfred State off the board while limiting the Pioneers to six hits and two walks, and she also struck out four batters.

Penn State Altoona grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second on Fisher's RBI single into left field. That score held up until the bottom of the sixth, when the Lions added a trio of insurance runs to their total. Madison Lucas (Philipsburg, PA/Philipsburg-Osceola) reached on a single and later scored on an error, and Burge followed with an RBI single to right that scored Lukehart. Smith's sacrifice fly plated Fisher to make it 4-0.

Penn State Altoona softball will travel for its next games, heading to Pittsburgh on Wednesday, April 6 to take on AMCC opponent La Roche University in a doubleheader starting at 3:00 p.m.