Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MONACA, Pa. – The Thiel College softball team powered its way to a 2-game sweep over Penn State Beaver Thursday behind a 4-home run effort. The Tomcats won the first game of the doubleheader 13-1 in five innings before winning 9-6 in the second game.
 
Thiel hit three home runs in Game 1, led by sophomore catcher Danielle Massengill (North Bend, Wash./Mt. Si), who hit two round-trippers. Massengill, who scored the first run of the game after a leadoff walk in the first inning, gave the Tomcats a 3-0 edge in the second frame when she hit a 2-run bomb.
 
In the fourth inning, Game 1 starting pitcher Amanda Callahan (Austintown, Ohio/Austintown Fitch) and Massengill hit back-to-back homers to increase Thiel's lead to 5-0.
 
The Tomcats went on to score eight runs in the fifth inning to earn the 13-1 five-inning victory. Massengill led the Tomcats at the plate in the first game. She went 3-for-3 with two home runs, four RBIs and four runs scored.
 
Callahan earned the win in the first game, allowing just one earned run over five innings. She struck out the side in order in the second inning and, in all, whiffed nine batters to pick up her third win of the season.
 
The Tomcats jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the second game of the doubleheader en route to the 9-6 victory.
 
First baseman Molly Jo Everett (Medina, Ohio/Highland) led the Tomcats in the second game. She went 3-for-4 at the plate with a solo home run in the fifth inning. Amanda Auxier (Parma Heights, Ohio/Valley Forge) and Madison Cheek (Milan, Ohio/Edison) also went 3-for-4 with a double apiece.
 
Morgan White (Warren, Ohio/Champion) earned the win in the second game in 5 2/3 innings of work.
 
The Tomcats (5-11, 0-2 PAC) will return to action Saturday when they host the Saint Vincent College Bearcats at Tomcat Park. The first game of the PAC doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.