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QUINCY, ILL. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team closed out the regular season on Saturday by collecting its 40^th win and clinching the Great Lakes Valley Conference West Division regular season title outright with a sweep at Quincy. The Tritons won by scores of 5-4 and 11-1.
 
UMSL ends the regular season with a 41-6 overall record, including a 26-4 GLVC mark. This is the Tritons' second-straight 40-win season and just the third in program history. Last year's team finished with a 41-13 record, while the 1995 team owns a program-best 44 wins (44-29 record). The 26 GLVC wins ties last year for most in program history.
 
UMSL will travel to Peoria, Ill., next Friday-Sunday for the GLVC Tournament. A complete bracket and other information will be released by the GLVC tomorrow night following the conclusion of the league's regular season schedule.
 
GAME 1: UMSL 5, Quincy 4
Two-run homeruns by juniors Brianna Butler and Katie Wood in the fifth inning helped the Tritons to the win, while sophomore Hannah Perryman recorded the save to preserve the victory.
 
Junior Hannah Wessels broke a scoreless game in the fourth inning with a single up the middle to score freshman Alex Stupek before the Hawks countered with two runs in the bottom of the frame.
 
Butler then connected for her program-leading 29^th career homerun in the fifth with one runner on before Wood followed suit. Butler's blast was also her team-leading 11^th of the year, which ranks second on the single season charts. Wood connected for her 26^th career shot, tying her for fourth place all-time.
 
The Hawks got two runs back in the sixth inning to pull within 5-4 and led off the bottom of the seventh with a double to put Quincy in scoring position. Perryman then came in to relieve starter Brittni Chapman and retired three straight to end the game.
 
Chapman recorded the win, allowing all four runs on nine hits, while striking out four. The save was the fourth of the season for Perryman.
 
UMSL tallied eight hits, including two from Wood and Wessels. Stupek scored two runs, reaching base both times on a walk.
 
The homeruns from Butler and Wood also gave UMSL 50 on the season as a team, marking the third straight year the Tritons have accomplished that feat.
 
GAME 2: UMSL 11, Quincy 1 (6 inn.)
Perryman tossed the complete game victory, recording 15 strikeouts to improve to 22-5. She scattered three hits, including a solo homerun to Jessica Grimes to lead off the third inning.
 
Offensively, the Tritons registered a season-high 16 hits and erased the 1-0 deficit on a two-run double by junior Madison Zbaraschuk in the fourth inning. UMSL then plated four runs in the fifth inning with RBI singles to Butler, Wood and senior Ashleigh King, while Stupek delivered an RBI double.
 
The Tritons bettered their fifth inning output with five runs in the sixth inning, including a Wessels two-run single and a Zbaraschuk RBI single. Two Hawk errors accounted for the other two runs.
 
Stupek and Wood recorded three hits and three runs each, while Zbaraschuk tallied two hits and three RBIs, moving her career RBIs total to 122, tying her with Karey Kruse (2008-11) for the all-time record.