KENNEDY TWP., Pa. -- Point Park University softball had its comeback fall short in the opener to lose 7-5 to St. Mary-of-the-Woods (Ind.) College on Thursday from Fairhaven Park. The Pomeroys made it a sweep with an 11-0 victory in five innings for the nightcap.

The River States Conference results puts Point Park at 10-10 on the year and 7-5 RSC heading into its next games on Friday versus Oakland City (Ind.) at 11:00 a.m. St. Mary-of-the-Woods (18-13, 9-7 RSC) won the RSC Championship last year.

GAME 1 -- SMWC 7, POINT PARK 5

The Pioneers came alive for four runs in the bottom of the seventh, but it wasn't enough to fully comeback from the 7-1 deficit at the start of the inning.

Remi Koi gave a major spark with a solo homer to start the rally attempt in the seventh. The inning continued with Melanie Taylor's single and Angalee Beall's RBI triple with two outs. The Pioneers really had a chance when Hailey Leitner followed with a two-run homer to make the score 7-5.

But the Pomeroys brought in Summer Rocha to the the last out and the save. SMWC starter Lonna Martinez had pitched all 6.2 innings to that point but ran out of gas. She limited Point Park to one run run and four hits the first six innings.

Point Park had its chances early leaving runners in the first and second innings and the bases loaded in the third. But Martinez retired nine in a row in the middle innings as the Pomeroys built their lead.

Point Park made five errors in the game, which were too much overcome with SMWC getting several key hits throughout the game.

GAME 2 -- SMWC 11, POINT PARK 0

The day turned out to not be in the Pioneers' favor as the second game wore on. St. Mary-of-the-Woods put together a seven-run second inning to get out to a 9-0 lead early in the nightcap.

Down by that many, the Pioneers could not get much going offensively. Jasmine Kinzer took advantage as the Pomeroys starter and limited Point Park to three hits and no runs in her complete game of five innings.

A 1-2-3 bottom of the second and a double play in the Point Park third kept the momentum going towards SMWC. Point Park got multiple runners on in the fourth and fifth innings but could not push anything across to extend the game.