KENNEDY TWP, Pa. -- Point Park University softball beat Malone, 3-0, to earn a doubleheader split on Tuesday from Fairhaven Park. Point Park lost the first game to the NCAA Division II squad, 5-2.

Alex Bondi's two-run homer and Jada Simon's complete-game shutout lifted the Pioneers to the 3-0 victory in Game 2. Bondi's blast came in the bottom of the first inning to give Simon run support right away.

Melanie Taylor, who was 2 for 3, had led off the Point Park first with a base hit and was on three batters later for Bondi's homer, which sailed deep over the fence in left-center.

Simon had a superb outing going all 7.0 innings and giving up just five hits. One of those was a harmless infield hit with two outs in the seventh. Simon made quick work of Malone facing four batters or less in sixth of the seven inings.

Simon faced five batters in the sixth but stranded runners at first and second after a pair of base hits. Simon did not walk a batter, struck out three and all five of the hits she gave up were singles.

Taylor had a big hit in the fifth when she produced a one-out triple to right field. Mara Iagnemma brought her home on a groundout for a big insurance run and a 3-0 lead.

In the first game, Malone starter Elizabeth Dyke had a complete-game victory and let her defense work as the big factor in the result. Both teams had seven hits, but after getting a 4-0 lead in her favor, Dyke kept the Pioneers off balance.

Point Park had a lot of ground outs with 11 in the game. Most of those game in the final four innings when Dyke went into a groove.

Malone scored three runs in the second inning to get out to the 4-0 lead. Reagn Smith delivered a solo homer to make the score 2-0. Taylor Kern punctuated the inning with a key double with two outs that brought in two more.

Point Park got within 4-1 on Bondi's RBI double in the bottom of the second. Sydnie Reese was on for that after leading off with a double.

Bondi doubled to start the Point Park seventh. After a wild pitch, pinch runner Mackenzie Moore scored on a groundout. But it was too late and all the Pioneers would get as a couple of outs on the infield ended things.

Angalee Beall pitched all 7.0 innings for Point Park. After the early runs, she settled in to retire 13 batters in a row from the third to the seventh inning. The Point Park bats did not come around during that time to provide the run support.

Beall's streak of retired started after a lead-off single in the third. The next batter to reach was a one-out single in the seventh. A big insurance run came hom when Kern delivered another big double, which made the score 5-1 with two outs.

Point Park gets right back into action on Wednesday, March 22 at home versus Pitt-Greensburg. The first of two games is at 3:00 p.m. at Fairhaven Park.