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GREENVILLE, Pa. – After suffering a heartbreaking 12-8 game one loss to Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) rival Westminster College Thursday afternoon at Tomcat Park, the softball squad jumped out to an early 7-0 lead in game two and hung on to record the 7-6 win in the nightcap.

Amanda Callahan (Austintown, Ohio/Austintown Fitch) picked up her fourth win of the season in game two for the Tomcats (9-15, 4-4 PAC), going 7.0 innings while giving up six runs on six hits with six strikeouts and five walks.

Molly Jo Everett (Medina, Ohio/Highland) went 2-for-3 with a home run, a double, three RBI and a pair of runs scored to pace Thiel at the plate. Danielle Massengill (North Bend, Wash./Mt. Si) finished 2-for-4 with a triple, her team-best sixth of the season, and two runs scored.

Carly Wallock took the game two loss for Westminster (15-11, 7-1 PAC) after giving up five runs (4 earned) on five hits with a pair of strikeouts in her 2.0 innings of work. Olet Stasko went 2-for-4 with a double, a RBI and a runs scored for the Titans.

Everett's two-run home run to deep left in the top of the second gave the homestanding Tomcats a 2-0 advantage. Thiel managed to plate another run later in the frame and extend its lead to 3-0 going into the bottom of the second.

Everett's RBI double got things going for Thiel in its four-run third, and after Stasko's run-scoring double in the bottom of the frame, the Tomcats went into the fourth carrying a 7-1 lead.

The Titans scored a run in the fifth and two more in the sixth to pull to within two, 7-4. After recording a one-two-three top of the seventh the Titans plated two runs in the bottom of the frame to get to within one, 7-6, but a crafty catch on a foul ball by Everett was enough to preserve the run-one victory.

Game one saw Thiel fight back from a 2-0 deficit to score three runs in the fourth and another four in the six and head into the seventh with a 7-2 lead. Six Titans runs in the top of the seventh saw the visitors regain the lead, 8-7, but a pinch hit RBI single by Ali House (Liberty, Ohio/Liberty) in the bottom of the frame would tie the game at 8-8, forcing extras.

A pair of costly two-run errors in the top of the eighth presented the Titans with four runs and helped push their lead to 12-8. Three straight outs in the bottom of the eighth closed it out for Westminster.

Chelsea Brown started on the mound for the Titans but did not figure in the decision after giving up eight runs (6 earned) on 10 hits in 7.0 innings. Carly Leffakis earned the win in relief of Brown and improved to 2-1 on the season, allowing just two hits in her 1.0 inning of work.

Erica Kimick and Katie Hughes each had four RBI for Westminster.

Ashley Dolan (Export, Pa./Franklin Regional) finished 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and three runs scored while Massengill went 2-for-3 with a pair of runs scored to lead the Tomcats.

House was the tough luck loser for Thiel in game one, allowing 4 runs (0 earned) on three hits in 1.1 innings.

Thiel is back in action on Saturday, April 14 when it hosts Geneva College for a 1 p.m. PAC doubleheader.