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The Malone University softball team's string of six consecutive wins to start the season came to a hault on Wednesday as they went 0-2 on the final day of the Fastpitch Spring Break Tournament in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Malone, who entered the game hitting a blistering .410 as a team, were held to only three hits in their first game of the day, a 5-0 loss to Tennessee Wesleyan College.

Freshman Amy Donze (1-1) was dealt the loss, giving up five runs in four innings. She cruised through her first three of work before giving up four runs in the fourth. Stephanie Byrne pitched three scoreless innings in relief.

Freshman Carly Holcomb, Byrne and junior Katy Carr recorded the hits for the Pioneers.

The Pioneers dropped the second game to Penn State Altoona 10-5. With Malone trailing 3-0 in the bottom of the fourth, freshman Emily Isla launched her first career home run. Holcomb followed up the blast with a solo home run, also the first of her career, just two batters later to tie the game at 3-3.

Penn State Altoona reclaimed a three run lead, capitalizing on a few Malone errors to plate two unearned runs in the top of the fifth and two more runs in the top of the sixth.

Malone looked poised for a big inning in the bottom of the sixth when their first three batters reached base, two via errors and another a walk. Two of those runners would eventually come around to score to make the score 7-5 but the third was stranded on third base.

Penn State Altoona tacked on three more runs in the top of the seventh to ice the game away.

Isla was responsible for half of Malone's four hits going 2-for-4 with the homer. Senior Shelby Snyder (3-1) went the distance for Malone in the circle giving up all ten runs.

Malone next returns to Canton to host their first home games of the year, a doubleheader against Salem International University (WV), on March 11th with first pitch scheduled for 3:00 pm.