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GREENVILLE, Pa. – The Tomcat softball team earned a 5-0, 9-0 (5 inn.) non-conference sweep over visiting Penn State Beaver Wednesday afternoon at Tomcat Park. Amanda Callahan (Austintown, Ohio/Austintown Fitch) posted the first one-hit shutout of her career and retired a season-best 12 via the strikeout in the game one victory.

Callahan, making just her seventh start of the year, struck of six of Beaver's first 10 batters and didn't allow a hit until Ashley Watkins two-out single in the top of the sixth.

Danielle Massengill (North Bend, Wash./Mt. Si) went 2-for-3 with two RBI and a run while Becky Betteridge (Conneaut, Ohio/Conneaut) and Ashley Dolan (Export, Pa./Franklin Regional) each finished with a pair of hits and a RBI. 

Korey Freyermuth suffered the game one loss for Penn State Beaver (5-15), allowing five runs on nine hits with a pair of strikeouts in 6.0 innings.

Ali House (Liberty, Ohio/Liberty) notched the game two win and moved her season record to 3-1, allowing just four hits to go along with four strikeouts in 5.0 innings of work.

Betteridge paced the Tomcat offensive effort in game two, finishing 3-for-3 with a triple, three runs scored, a RBI and stolen base. Massengill collected two hits in the nightcap, moving her season average to .512. 

Lauren Pier had two hits for Beaver while Watkins and Lindsey Scialdone each had one. Freyermuth was dealt the game two loss as well, surrendering nine runs on 10 hits in 4.0 innings.

Massengill's RBI single the bottom of the first saw the Tomcats assume the early 1-0 lead, but their five-run third, keyed by House's two-out, bases-clearing triple, gave the home team a 6-0 lead going into the fourth inning.

The Tomcats tallied three more runs in the bottom of the fourth to extend their lead to 9-0 and House allowed just a single in the fifth before forcing the fourth batter of the inning to fly to right as Thiel recorded the five-inning shutout.

Thiel returns to action on Thursday, March 29 when it hosts Hiram College for a non-conference doubleheader. Game one at Tomcat Park is slated to get underway at 3:30 p.m.