Ebensburg, Pa. – The Edinboro softball team split a pair of games with host Pitt-Johnstown Sunday afternoon in PSAC West action.
 
The Scots took the opener 4-1 before falling 6-2 in the second half of the doubleheader.
 
In the opener, Edinboro got on the board first. Antonia Schaefer hit a two-out triple in the top of the third and would score on a wild pitch to make it 1-0.
 
The Scots opened the lead up in the fifth again with two outs. Morgan Spitler reached on a two-out infield single. After a Mountain Cat error put runners on first and third, Schaefer was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Maura Pasquale drew a walk to force across a run and Mackenzie Quider made the score 4-0 with a single up the middle plating Lauren Bush and Schaefer.
 
Pitt-Johnstown scored on a Kayla Miehl home run to lead off the seventh, but Scot pitcher Macy Sral bounced back and retired the Mountain Cats to set the final.
 
Sral continued her hot start to the season in the circle pitching seven innings allowing just one run on two hits while striking out five improving her record to 6-0. Schaefer was the only player of either team to record multiple hits.
 
In game two, UPJ scored first in the bottom of the third on a successful double steal. The Mountain Cats took advantage of a pair of Edinboro errors to score three unearned runs in the fifth to make it 4-0.
 
Edinboro trimmed the lead to 4-1 in the top of the sixth when Maura Pasquale doubled home Kayla Terwilliger. UPJ scored twice in the sixth to make the lead 6-1.
 
Cheyenne Shugart homered to lead off the top of the seventh, but that was as close as the Scot comeback bid would get.
 
Bush took the loss in the circle allowing six runs, two earned, on seven hits with two strikeouts.
 
The Scots are back in action on Friday when they are slated to host IUP at 2 p.m.