The Pitt-Johnstown softball split a non-conference doubleheader at Seton Hill on Tuesday.  With a 4-1 victory in game one, Pitt-Johnstown picked-up its 11^th win of the year to break last year's mark of 10 wins.
 
The Griffins came back with a 4-1 win in the nightcap to secure the split.
 
In just its third season as a varsity sport, Pitt-Johnstown won seven games in 2015, 10 games in 2016, and 11 games so far this year.  With just under 20 more games remaining on the schedule, Pitt-Johnstown is now 11-13.
 
In the opener, Pitt-Johnstown took advantage of four unearned runs, including three in the fourth inning, in the 4-2 victory.
 
Pitt-Johnstown took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when McKenna Kern scored on Christiana Skrabak's throwing error, before adding three more unearned runs in the fourth.
 
Ashley Shor singled and Amber Maurer walked with one out in the fourth.  Shor, Maurer and Morgan Cannin all scored on Cannin's sacrifice after another throwing error, this time by Griffins' second baseman Brooke Bower.
 
Seton Hill got a solo home run Allison Kapoll in the seventh, but Melissa Wagner got the final two out for close out the complete-game victory in the circle.
 
Wagner struck out seven and held the Griffins to just one run on six hits on her way to improving to 8-5.
 
Pitt-Johnstown managed just four hits off of Seton Hill's Mackayla Kroll, singles by Marley Elbin, Taylor Hoover, Kern, and Shor, but took advantage two costly errors by the Griffins.
 
In the nightcap, Skrabak's two-run single in the bottom of the second scored Shannon Horan and Paige Hertzog to put Seton Hill in front 2-0.
 
The Griffins added another run in the third on Amanda Huff's RBI single, before Pitt-Johnstown made it 3-1 in the sixth after Cannin tripled with one out and scored on Elbin's single to center field.
 
Elbin accounted for Pitt-Johnstown's lone RBI, while Cannin tripled, singled, and scored a run.  Montana Mang, Hoover, and Kern also had base hits for Pitt-Johnstown.
 
Emily Moore started and suffered the loss after allowing three earned runs on six hits over the first three innings.  Samantha Frey pitched the final three innings and held Seton Hill to one unearned run on two hits.
 
With the split, the Griffins are now 12-17.
 
Pitt-Johnstown will play a non-conference doubleheader at Salem International (WV) on Wednesday, before traveling to Bloomsburg for a PSAC doubleheader on Friday.  Pitt-Johnstown will then host a conference doubleheader against Mansfield on Saturday at 1 and 3 p.m. at V.E. Erickson Complex.