The College of Wooster softball team handed the ball to senior pitcher Katie Pifer for the opener of Sunday's non-conference doubleheader. Pifer responded with a one-run, seven-hit gem, and the Fighting Scots rolled to a 4-1 win over Bethany (W. Va.) College before falling to the Bison in the nightcap 13-6.

Pifer gave up seven singles, no extra-base hits, and didn't surrender a walk to the Bison in her 13th complete game of the season. She struck out two and rang up 14 ground-ball outs for her third victory of the spring.

While Pifer handcuffed Bethany batters, the Wooster offense went to work in the second inning. The Fighting Scots pounded out three hits in the frame, including Pifer's RBI single, helping her own cause, and jumped out to a 2-0 advantage. Gwen Davis drove in the other run on a fielder's choice, plating Marissa Stover who smacked a double earlier in the inning.

Wooster (6-30) put up single tallies on the scoreboard in the third on Caitlin Gaffney's single scoring Priscilla Staples, who led the inning off with a walk, and another in the sixth via an RBI single by Gwen Davis, pushing Gaffney across home plate after a leadoff base hit.

Staples was 3-for-3 with a run scored and a walk, along with six putouts and five assists defensively in the first game. Also putting up big numbers for Wooster was Gaffney, who tallied a 3-for-4 performance with a run batted in and a pair of runs scored.

In the second half of the twinbill, Bethany utilized a three-run first inning to jump out in front. However, Wooster responded with two runs in the second. With one out, Lauren Sargi recorded a single, and eventually came home on a run-scoring base knock by Rachel Frank. The second run for Wooster scored as Natalie Worcester reached on a fielding error by the second baseman, and she sprinted home on an error by the pitcher on a ball hit by Staples.

The visitors put up two more in the third with an RBI triple from Sargi, scoring Rachel Gaines all the way from first base after a one-out single, and Sargi motored down the line touching home on a Worcester base hit.

Not finished yet, Wooster went ahead 5-3 when Frank led the fourth inning off with a single, moved to second on a wild pitch, and scored an unearned run following an error in left field on a base hit by Andrea Kelley.

During its next two at-bats, the Bethany offense came to life, scoring three runs on four hits in the fourth, and six more tallies on five hits in the fifth to turn a two-run deficit into a seven-run lead.

In the sixth, Kim Skully doubled, and scored Wooster's sixth run on a two-bagger from Gaines. The Bison (18-14) tacked on one more in the home half of the sixth for the final margin.

Sargi was 3-for-4 in game two with her first career triple. Additionally, Frank and Gaines each went 2-for-4 with an RBI and run scored in the nightcap.

The victory for Wooster in the opener marked the first win over alma mater for head coach Lori Schimmel. While at Bethany as a student-athlete, Schimmel was a First Team all-Presidents' Athletic Conference recipient in each of her four years, and was the 1991 PAC Pitcher of the Year.