Pitt-Johnstown scored six unearned runs in the fifth inning to win Tuesday's first game of a non-conference doubleheader at Salem International (WV) University, before getting three RBI apiece from McKenna Kern and Montana Mang to complete the sweep with a 9-1 victory in the nightcap.  Pitt-Johnstown evened its overall record at 13-13.
 
Salem International jumped out to a 2-0, second-inning lead in the opener.  Kayla Lynch led-off with a walk and scored on Morgan Atkinson's double.  Tori Butler followed with a double down the left field line that scored Atkinson to make it 2-0.
 
It stayed that way until the fifth when Pitt-Johnstown took advantage of three Salem International errors and came away with unearned six runs.  Marley Elbin's two-run single chased home Lyndsey Weiser and Amber Maurer tie it, before Morgan Cannin reached on a fielder's choice and scored on a throwing error to give Pit-Johnstown the lead.  Pitt-Johnstown added three more unearned runs on RBI from Taylor Hoover, Amanda O'Toole, and Kelsey Feeney.
 
O'Toole had two hits and drove in a run, and Cannin added a pair of hits for Pitt-Johnstown.  Hoover and Feeney each had a hit and an RBI, while Mang drove in a run.
 
Melissa Wagner pitched a completed-game in the circle to improve to 9-5.  Wagner held the Tigers tow a pair of runs on four hits.  She also struck out eight and walked two.
 
In game two, Pitt-Johnstown scored three runs in the first inning and five in the second to build an early 8-0 lead in the 9-1 run-shortened win.
 
Kern's two-run double and an RBI single from Mang gave Pitt-Johnstown a 3-0 first inning lead, before Salem International came back with a run in their half of the first.
 
However, Pitt-Johnstown broke it open with five more in the second.  Maurer doubled and scored on a Tigers' error, and Kern's single to center drove home Cannin to make it 5-0.  O'Toole's sacrifice bunt chased home Elbin from third, before Mang doubled home a run, and Feeney singled-home Mang to cap the five-run inning.
 
Samantha Frey evened her record at 2-2 after holding Salem International to one unearned run on six hits in five innings in the circle.
 
Mang was 3-for-3 with three RBI, and Kern added two hits, three RBI, and three runs.  Elbin also had three hits, while Maurer singled, doubled, and scored a run for Pitt-Johnstown.
 
With the losses, the tigers fell to 8-26 on the year.
 
Pitt-Johnstown will travel to Bloomsburg for a PSAC doubleheader on Friday, before returning home to host a conference doubleheader against Mansfield on Saturday at 1 and 3 p.m. at V.E. Erickson Complex.