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PSU Altoona advances to AMCC championship round

DuBOIS — The Penn State Altoona softball team won both of its games on Friday in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Championship tournament at Rose & Dennis Heindl Memorial Field.

Penn State Altoona, with one loss in the double-elimination tournament, will face unbeaten Penn State Behrend at noon Saturday. A winner-take-all second game will be played at 2 if the Lions win the first game.

PSU Altoona will be trying to win its fourth-ever AMCC title.

PSU Altoona beat Pitt-Bradford, 11-3, in five innings in the first game on Friday and then avenged a loss to Mount Aloysius with a 6-1 win to eliminate the Mounties. Mount Aloysius had lost to Penn State Behrend, 5-4, earlier in the day.

Against Pitt-Bradford, Glendale High School graduate Riley Best went 3-for-3 with a home run and eight RBIs. Gracie Wilt, an Altoona Area High School graduate, set a new team single-season record for stolen bases with 20.

Wilt and Alexa Baney were both 2-for-3, Madison Kennedy (Central) was 2-for-2, and Karli Storm (Cambria Heights) was 1-for-2 and scored three runs.

Josselyn Nau pitched a complete game.

Against Mount Aloysius, Storm set the program’s single-season record for runs scored with 47.

Storm went 3-for-4, Wilt was 2-for-4, Best was 1-for-3, and Kennedy went 2-for-4 with four RBIs.

Best started in the circle and got her fifth win. She and Kennedy combined on a four-hitter.

PSU players honored

ROSEMONT, Ill. — The Penn State softball program saw four student-athletes secure postseason All-Big Ten accolades.

Allison Oneacre was named to the All-Big Ten first team. Breanna Hanik and Brooke Klosowicz earned second-team All-Big honors, and McKenna Young was the program’s representative for the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award.

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