ST. LOUIS, MO. – The No. 3 ranked University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team moved into first place in the Great Lakes Valley Conference standings on Sunday after sweeping a pair of games from previous co-league leader Truman State, 6-4 and 8-1.
 
UMSL improves to 31-3 overall, including 16-2 in the GLVC standings and coupled with today's two wins and a split between Indianapolis and Bellarmine, move atop the league standings. The Tritons also notch the program's 11^th 30-win season and the fourth in five years under head coach Brian Levin. Truman State slips to 23-7 overall, including 13-3 in the GLVC, with the losses.
 
The Tritons have won 13 straight and were playing at home today for the first time since March 16 following a 12-game roadswing.
 
Junior ace Hannah Perryman picked up the win in the circle in both games, recording career victories No. 69 and 70. She totaled 23 strikeouts in nine innings pitched, including a season-high 18 in the complete-game nightcap. That ties her third best single game effort, which she has done four times now.
 
Offensively, sophomore Alex Stupek knocked out three home runs, including two in the second contest, while the Tritons tallied seven on the day, moving their season total to 82, which ties the 22^nd most in a single season in NCAA Division II history. Stupek moved her single season total to 15 home runs, tying teammate Brianna Butler for the most in an UMSL single season. Butler had broken her own record of 14 set last year in yesterday's two wins at Quincy.  
 
UMSL returns to action next weekend, hosting Missouri S&T (Saturday) and Drury (Sunday).
 
GAME 1: UMSL 6, Truman State 4
Two-run home runs from sophomore Stupek and senior Katie Rutledge helped the Tritons rally back for the win, while Perryman pitched two strong innings in relief.
 
Truman State took advantage of a leadoff hit by pitch and came around to score the game's first run in the first inning and then in the second inning went up 3-0 on a two-run home run.
 
UMSL got two runs back in the third, scoring on a bases loaded Bulldogs error and on a sac fly from senior Katie Wood before taking a 4-3 lead in the fifth on Stupek's two-run home run.
 
Truman State tied it up at 4-4 in the top of the sixth, taking advantage of a pair of costly Triton errors, but it was Rutledge with a two-run shot in the sixth for the game-winner, her 10^th of the year.
 
Rutledge and Wood both finished 2-for-3 at the plate, while H. Perryman moved struck out five in two innings of work. Senior Hannah Wessels had a 12-game hitting streak snapped, but made it 13 straight games on base, reaching via an error in the third on UMSL's first run.
 
Senior Brittni Chapman went five innings in the start and after allowing the two-run homer, retired 11 of the next 12 batters she faced, including nine straight over the third, fourth and fifth innings. She was charged with all four Bulldog runs on three hits and walked one, while striking out a pair.
 
Game 2: UMSL 8, Truman State 1
The Tritons banged out five home runs to score seven of their eight runs, with two long balls coming from Stupek, who finished 2-for-3 at the plate with three RBIs and two runs scored. Wood and seniors Jena Boudreau and Madison Zbaraschuk also recorded a home run, while UMSL's final run came on a Rutledge RBI single.
 
Truman scored its lone run with a solo home run in the third inning and finished with just two hits off Perryman.