ST. LOUIS, MO. – The No. 3 ranked University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team posted a 4-1 victory over Bellarmine on Sunday in the first of two Great Lakes Valley Conference games, but saw the visiting Knights rally in the nightcap with five answered runs en route to the 5-3 eight-inning win.
 
The Tritons move to 39-5 overall, including 24-4 in the GLVC, while Bellarmine closes out its regular season at 32-14 and 20-8 in the league. UMSL will conclude its regular season tomorrow, hosting No. 15 Southern Indiana in a 12 p.m. GLVC doubleheader.
 
GAME 1: UMSL 4, Bellarmine 1
Senior Brianna Butler's two-run double drove in two runs in the first inning, while in the third inning, freshman Jennah Perryman and senior Jena Boudreau each recorded an RBI single for the 4-0 lead.
 
The Knights got on the board in the top of the fourth inning with a two-out RBI double, ending junior Hannah Perryman's streak of innings without allowing an earned run at 34 and two-thirds, dating back to April 5 and spanning seven appearances.
 
Perryman recorded the win, improving to 21-3 in the circle, with 14 strikeouts in the complete game effort. She scattered four hits and issued just one walk.
 
The Tritons registered seven hits, including two from Butler and two from fellow senior Hannah Wessels.
 
GAME 2: Bellarmine 5, UMSL 3 (8 inn.)
Bellarmine scored twice in the top of the eighth for the win, scoring on an RBI triple and an RBI double. The effort came after the Knights erased a 3-0 deficit in the sixth inning, knotting the score at 3-3 on a two-run double before scoring a third run on a two-out Tritons error.
 
UMSL scored all three of its runs in the third inning. Wessels broke the scoreless game with an RBI single to score Boudreau, who recorded the team's first hit of the game with a double. Senior Katie Wood then knocked out a two-run homer for the 3-0 lead. It was her 13^th long ball of the season, 12 of which have come in GLVC play.
 
The Tritons put two runners on in the bottom of the eighth, but Knight's pitcher Ally Foster was able to work out of the jam.
 
Senior Brittni Chapman suffered the loss, allowing five runs, including four earned, on six hits. She also struck out seven and walked two.
 
UMSL recorded six hits, including two each from Wessels and Wood.