Audrey Paterson collected three hits in four at-bats and belted a solo homer, but Indiana (PA) took a pair of PSAC West Games from Pitt-Johnstown, Sunday afternoon in Indiana. The Crimson Hawks won the opener, 8-5, then earned a 4-1 win in the nightcap after weather cut it short in the bottom of the fifth.
 
In the opener, Pitt-Johnstown, now 7-8 overall and 1-3 in conference-play, took the lead with a pair of runs in the top of the second.  Jessica Pugh and Taylor Lupfer drew walks around Mia Smith getting hit with a pitch to load the bases.  Gianna Surra's sacrifice fly scored Pugh to open the scoring and Sara Solberg's base-hit to left-center allowed Smith to come across to make it 2-0.
 
IUP answered with three runs in the bottom of the third, including Jaycee Haidze's two-run homer, to go in front.
 
That lead was short-lived because the Mountain Cats answered with three more runs in the top of the fourth.  Paterson quickly tied it with a one-out solo home run off of Crimson Hawks' starter Kendall Young, before three straight two-out doubles from Solberg, Meghan McDonough and Brynnae Coe gave Pitt-Johnstown a 5-3 advantage.
 
Single runs from the Crimson Hawks in the fourth and fifth innings knotted it five, and three unearned runs in the sixth, highlighted by Haidze's two-run double, put IUP on top for good at 8-5.
 
Paterson went 2-for-3 with a homer, while Solberg was 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI for the Mountain Cats.  McDonough and Coe each doubled home a run, and Isabella DePalma collected a base hit.
 
Mia Smith suffered the loss after giving up eight runs, just three earned, on seven in six innings in the circle. Smith struck out six and walked five to fall to 4-2.
 
IUP's Madison Booth earned the win in relief and improved to 2-0 after holding Pitt-Johnstown scoreless on one hit over the final 3.1 innings.
 
In game two, Cameron Ponko's two-run single to center in the bottom of the first off Mahlon Yonkin gave IUP the early advantage.
 
The Crimson Hawks strung five straight hits together and got RBI singles from Madison Pikula and Ruby Singleton to increase it to 4-0 in the fourth, before Avery Smiach replaced Yonkin and struck out the next two hitters to get out of a bases loaded jam.
 
The Mountain Cats got a run back in the top of the fifth.  Coe and DePalma singled to start the inning.  Coe and pinch runner Kylie Mettrick both moved up a base on an IUP fielding error, and Mylie Gdula's sacrifice fly plated Coe.
 
Rain and lightning came in the bottom of the fifth and ended the game after just 4.5 innings.
 
Yonkin suffered the loss and fell to 3-3 after allowing four runs on eight hits over the first 3.1 innings.
 
Gdula accounted for the Mountain Cats' RBI, while Coe, Pugh, DePalma, Paterson and Yonkin all had hits for Pitt-Johnstown.
 
With the sweep, IUP improved to 11-13 overall and evened its record in the PSAC West at 2-2.
 
The Mountain Cats will host PSAC West doubleheaders against Edinboro on Friday at 2 p.m. at the Pitt-Johnstown Softball Field and Gannon on Saturday at 1 p.m.