FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Penn State Altoona softball team swept its two games on Friday in the Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic, defeating Baruch College and North Central University at the Lee County Sports Complex.

Penn State Altoona (3-2) edged Baruch 3-2 in game one, before the Lions posted a lopsided 14-4 victory over North Central in the nightcap.

Game One: Penn State Altoona 3, Baruch 2

Penn State Altoona scored all three of its runs in the bottom of the first inning and held on to beat Baruch (0-1) by one.

Josselyn Nau (Bellefonte, PA/Bellefonte) pitched a complete game for her second victory of the season. The right-hander went seven innings and limited Baruch to two runs on seven hits and no walks, and she recorded seven strikeouts.

Cameryn Feathers (Martinsburg, PA/Central) achieved her 100th career hit in the win, finishing 3-for-3 with a run scored and a stolen base. Brooke Colledge (Everett, PA/Everett) was 2-for-4 with a double, and Alyssa Fisher (Lock Haven, PA/Central Mountain) and Gianna Hoppel (Lewistown, PA/Mifflin County) also had one hit apiece.

Penn State Altoona got three runs across in the first, all with two outs. With two down, Hoppel and Feathers hit back-to-back singles, and Karli Storm (Chest Springs, PA/Cambria Heights) drew a walk to load the bases. An error on the next play allowed Hoppel to score, and another error let Feathers and Storm score to make it 3-0.

Baruch made it a one-run game in the top of the sixth, finally breaking through for their first runs of the day on a two-RBI triple from Carly Quint.

But Penn State Altoona stranded Quint in the sixth and escaped the inning with the lead. In the seventh, Baruch again threatened, loading the bases with just one out. But Nau and the Lions got a fly out and a groundout to end the game and preserve the one-run win.

Game Two: Penn State Altoona 14, North Central 4

The Lions scored 14 runs on 17 hits in their second game of the day, posting a 10-run victory over North Central (1-9).

Brianna Bone (Morrisdale, PA/West Branch) went 4-for-5 with two runs scored and an RBI, and Hoppel finished 3-for-5 with two doubles, three RBI, and a run scored. Feathers also had a three-hit game, going 3-for-5 with a double, two RBI, and two runs scored.

Colledge was 2-for-6 with a run and an RBI, and Fisher went 2-for-5 with two runs scored and an RBI.

Fisher started at pitcher and secured her first win of the season, going five innings, limiting North Central to three earned runs, and striking out three batters. Nau finished the game, pitching two scoreless innings and striking out three.

Trailing 2-0 in the top of the third, Penn State Altoona scored two runs to tie the game. Storm's ground-rule RBI double plated the Lions' first run, and Hoppel's two-out RBI double to left made it 2-2. Penn State Altoona jumped ahead in the fourth on Feathers' two-out, two-run double to center.

Penn State Altoona broke the game open with a six-run top of the fifth. Fisher's RBI single started the scoring, and Madison Sitarek (Sykesville, MD/Century) drove in a run with her sacrifice fly to left. Colledge followed with an RBI single to center, and she later scored on an error. Run-scoring singles from Hanna Lauck (Bellefonte, PA/Bellefonte) and Hoppel gave the Lions a 10-2 lead by inning's end.

North Central closed the gap to six in the bottom of the fifth, scoring a pair of runs to make it 10-4.

But Penn State Altoona tacked four more runs on to its total in the seventh. Feathers reached on a single to right and later scored on an error. One batter later, Hoppel's double to left center made it 12-4. Lauck scored on an error in the next play, and Bone's RBI single to right extended the Lions' advantage to 14-4.

Penn State Altoona softball now heads into its day off tomorrow, Saturday, March 9, and the Lions will return to action on Sunday, March 10 at North Collier Regional Park in Naples. Penn State Altoona will face the University of Saint Joseph that day at 9 a.m., then go up against Emerson College at 11 a.m.