After earning a 9-4 victory in game one of Saturday's non-conference doubleheader at Bowie State (MD), Carly Santillo belted a two-run homer and the Mountain Cats scored two runs in the top of the seventh to secure the sweep with a 7-5 victory in the nightcap.  Pitt-Johnstown improved to 9-4.
 
In game one, Pitt-Johnstown banged out 13 hits, including three from Laura Fox, and used a four-run fourth inning on its way to the 9-4 win.
 
Pitt-Johnstown struck for three runs in the top of the second.  After Carly Santillo scored on a wild pitch to open the scoring, Tori Radvan's RBI ground out scored Lauren Gohacki and Fox followed with an RBI double that plated Maddie Flowers.
 
Bowie State got a run back kin its half of the second, but a Kayla Miehl RBI single and Santillo's RBI double in the third put the Mountain Cats up, 5-1.
 
After Akirr Pullen's two-run homer in the Bulldogs's bottom of the third cut it to 5-3, Pitt-Johnstown answered with four in the top of the fourth, highlighted by Taylor Mendicino's RBI double and Gohacki's sacrifice fly, and the Mountain Cats went on to the 9-4 victory.
 
Fox went 3-for-four with a double, and RBI, and a run, while Mendicino added two doubles, and RBI and a run for Pitt-Johnstown.  The Mountain Cats also got two hits, including a double, an RBI and a run from Santillo.  Miehl chipped-in a hit, an RBI, and two runs scored.
 
Alyssa Hileman improved to 6-1 after holding Bowie State to four runs (3 earned) on eight hits in the complete-game.  Hileman struck out three and didn't allow a walk.
 
In game two, the Mountain Cats erased an early three-run deficit, then scored two runs in the top of the seventh to complete the sweep with the 7-5 win.
 
Pitt-Johnstown opened the scoring with a run in the third. Hailei Markee walked, moved to third on Olivia Porter bunt single, and scored on a passed ball.
 
The Bulldogs came back to take the lead with four runs in the bottom of the third, before Cassidy Kern's infield single scored pinch-runner Shaylin Hagerman to cut the Mountain Cat deficit to 4-2 in the fourth.
 
Pitt-Johnstown battled back to regain the lead with three runs in the fifth, including, Santillo's two-run homer to right-center, but the Bulldogs were able to knot it at five with a run in the bottom of the fifth.
 
However, the Mountain Cats regained the lead with two more in the top of the seventh.  Gohacki singled to lead off the inning and worked her way around to score on a Bowie State error, before Flowers' RBI single chased home Kelsi Terzolino to make it 7-5.
 
Radvan earned the win in relief of starter Julie Shinavski and improved to 1-2.  Radvan pitched the final 2.1 innings, allowed two runs on two hits, and worked out of a seventh inning jam to preserve the victory.  Shinavski tossed the first 4.2 inning and gave up three runs (2 earned) on 11 hits.
 
Terzolino was 3-for-3 with a run, while Santillo added two hits, including a home run and two RBI.  Porter and Miehl collected two hits apiece, Cassidy Kern had a hit and drove in a pair, and Flowers singled and drove in one for the Mountain Cats.
 
With the losses, Bowie State dropped to 6-10-1 on the year.
 
The Mountain Cats begin PSAC West action with road doubleheaders at Indiana (PA) on Wednesday and Seton Hill on March 29.  Pitt-Johnstown will return home to host PSAC West doubleheaders against Slippery Rock on April 8 and Mercyhurst on April 9 at V.E. Erickson Complex.