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Montana Mang's two run walk-off double capped a four-run seventh inning to give Pitt-Johnstown the 5-4 victory in game one of Saturday's softball home-opener at V.E. Erickson Complex.  In game two, Amanda O'Toole connected for a two-run home run, but the Fighting Scots earned the split with a 9-3 win.  Pitt-Johnstown is now 6-6.
 
After falling behind 4-1 going into the bottom of the seventh inning in the opener, Pitt-Johnstown narrowed it to 4-3 when Ashley Shor and McKenna Kern scored on a throwing error by Edinboro reliever Kalet Lenart.  Mang followed with a double to right field that plated Amber Maurer and Marley Elbin with the game-winning runs.
 
Edinboro jumped out to a quick lead on Brooke Callaghan's two-run home run off in the top of the first inning.
 
Pitt-Johnstown cut the deficit in half with a run in the fifth.  Shor singled, moved to second on a throwing error, and eventually scored on Morgan Cannin's infield single.
 
The Fighting Scots came right back with two more in the top of the sixth, but could not hold the lead.
 
Shorr went 3-for-3 with two runs scored, and Mang went 2-for-for with two RBI.  Pitt-Johnstown also got a hit and an RBI from Cannin.
 
Melissa Wagner improved to 4-2 after holding the Fighting Scots to four runs on five hits in a complete-game effort.
 
In the nightcap, Edinboro opened-up a 5-2 lead, then added four more in the seventh inning to earn the split with a 9-3 victory.
 
Callaghan's RBI triple and an RBI bunt single from Brittany Allen put Edinboro in front 1-0 in the top of the first, before Theresa Fleckenstein's solo homer to left center in the third increased it to 3-0.
 
Jessica Hyland belted a solo home run to left field in the Fighting Scots' fourth inning, but Pitt-Johnstown responded with two in the bottom of the frame on O'Toole's two-run homer down the left field line.
 
However, Edinboro tacked on four insurance runs in the seventh, highlighted by Hyland's three-run blast.
 
O'Toole homered and drove in two, while Kelsey Feeney, Maurer, and Cannin all had two hits for Pitt-Johnstown.
 
Emily Moore started and took the loss for Pitt-Johnstown after surrendering four runs on seven hits over the first 3 1/3 innings.  Samantha Frey pitched the final 3 2/3 innings and gave up five runs (4 earned) on six hits.
 
With the split, Edinboro is now 8-7.
 
Pitt-Johnstown will host a non-conference doubleheader against Shippensburg on Sunday starting at 11 a.m. at the V.E. Erickson Complex, before opening PSAC-play with a doubleheader at Mansfield on Friday.