BRADFORD, Pa. -- The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford softball team will put its four-game winning streak to the test Thursday as D'Youville comes to the Kessel Athletics Complex for an Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference doubleheader.
Pitt-Bradford enters the week having won nine of its last 10 games with a 19-11 overall record and a 7-3 AMCC mark, which is good for a spot in the upper echelon of the conference.
The Panthers' 19 wins are the program's most since the 2014 squad won 23 games.
Saturday, the Panthers won their third and fourth straight games, getting the best of two tight road games at Penn State-Altoona via scores of 3-0 and 3-1.
Jordan Uhing improved to 11-3 on the season with a complete-game shutout in game one, striking out two and scattering four hits and as many walks.
Maddy Hillery and Liz Dzurisin had two hits each to lead a seven-hit Panther effort in game one.
Then in the second game, Kerrigan Hoffmann threw six strong innings in the circle to earn the win, striking out one.
Gabby Carpenter went 2-for-4 and scored all three Pitt-Bradford runs.
Melissa Nye added a pair of hits for Pitt-Bradford.
On the season, Hillery leads the team with a .432 batting average and his hitting a staggering .581 in conference play, which is the second-best AMCC average coming into the week.
Carpenter also has the AMCC's most triples in conference play with four.
Uhing's 11 wins are tied for the most in the conference coming into the week and her 2.51 ERA is fourth best.
D'Youville enters the week with a 7-15 overall record and a 6-4 mark in AMCC action.
Offensively, the Spartans are led by Ashley Carney's .425 batting average, .512 on-base percentage, 31 hits, 16 runs scored and seven doubles. Megan Meyer leads the team with 13 RBIs and is hitting .373.
In the circle, the Spartans' Alexa Haberer is fourth in the conference with 62 strikeouts. Her 91 innings pitched are the third-most of any hurler in the AMCC so far this season. 35 of her strikeouts have come in conference play, the second-most in the AMCC.
Thursday's games were originally scheduled for Tuesday but were pushed back due to heavy rain.
First pitch for game one is set for 3 p.m. with game two coming around 5 p.m.
