KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Point Park University softball absorbed two losses on Wednesday at The Spring Games in Kissimmee, Fla. The Pioneers fell to Bethel (Ind.) by a score of 6-3 and then were edged by Spring Arbor (Mich.), 2-1, to close out the day.

The Pioneers conclude their 10-game swing to Florida with two more games on Thursday, March 4. The Pioneers play Bethel (Ind.) in a rubber match at 11:15 a.m. followed by a matchup with No. 15-ranked Indiana Wesleyan at 1:30 p.m.

BETHEL 6, POINT PARK 3
Two days after the Pioneers put together late offense to beat Bethel, the Pilots returned the favor versus the Pioneers. Bethel scored five runs in the top of the fifth to turn Point Park's 2-1 lead into a 6-2 lead the other way.

Point Park had taken a 2-1 lead on Alex Bondi's two-run single in the bottom of the first. She was 2 for 4 in the game.

The score stayed that way until Bethel was able to put together six hits in the fifth to flip the game around. Point Park got within 6-3 on Taylor Goldstrohm's RBI triple in the bottom half, but that's as close as the Pioneers got.

Point Park managed three hits, two walks and had a couple of runners reach on an error. But that's all they got versus Bethel starter Hannah Fray. Maddie Horn reached base twice and found a way to score two of three runs.

Jada Simon pitched 4.1 innings for the Pioneers while Michaela Koch pitched the final 2.1 innings.

SPRING ARBOR 2, POINT PARK 1
It was another tight pitching matchup with Point Park's Angalee Beall and Spring Arbor's Elena Jones battling it out in the circle. The game was scoreless until the fourth inning when Spring Arbor got the first of its couple of key hits.

Sarah Matlock's double followed an earlier base hit to give Spring Arbor a 1-0 lead in the last half of the fourth. The Pioneers tied things up on Hailey Leitner's pinch-hit, sacrifice fly the next half inning. Beall had led off with a single, was bunted to second by Jodi Frontino and advanced to third on an error.

In the Spring Arbor fifth, the Cougars got an RBI hit by Cora Millay with two outs for the eventual winning run. Point Park had left two runners on in the fifth and left a runner at second in the sixth but could not find the same clutch hits as the Cougars.

Beall sent all 6.0 innings while striking out three and walking one. She allowed two runs on six hits.