CLERMONT, FLA. – The No. 5 ranked University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team ran its season-opening win streak to 11 games on Saturday with a 9-0 six-inning win over Notre Dame College at the NTC Spring Games in Florida, but suffered a 2-1 eight-inning loss to No. 16 West Virginia Wesleyan later in the day.
 
The Tritons are now 11-1 overall and return to the field on Monday at 9 a.m. (EST) against Saint Anselm.
 
GAME 1: UMSL 9, Notre Dame College (6 inn.)
UMSL pounded out 13 hits, including six doubles and a home run. Junior Sara Kern recorded a single, a double and the home run, while also finishing with three RBIs. Junior Rachel Matthies added three hits, two RBIs and scored three runs, while junior Alex Stupek also registered three hits and scored a pair of runs.
 
The Tritons, which shut out their eighth straight opponent, scored six runs on their multi-bag hits and crossed the plate three times each in the second and fifth frames.
 
Perryman tossed the complete game shutout, the 44^th of her career, striking out 11, including six of the first seven she faced. Perryman surrendered five hits, three of which came in the bottom of the sixth as the Falcons left the bases loaded to end the game.
 
GAME 2: West Virginia Wesleyan 2, UMSL 1
All three runs were scored in the eighth inning with the international tiebreaker in place, as each team started the frame with a runner on second base.
 
The Bobcats struck twice in the top of the inning on back-to-back doubles, while UMSL also scored in the bottom of the eighth on a double, courtesy of freshman Reagan Osborn. Osborn was then sacrificed over to third by senior Erin Walker with one out, but West Virginia Wesleyan pitcher Sayaka Foley retired the next two Tritons on strikeouts.
 
Perryman suffered her first loss of the season, allowing both runs – one of which was earned – on five hits. She struck out nine and did not allow a free pass.
 
Foley struck out 13 UMSL batters and limited the Tritons to a season-low three hits. Osborn accounted for two of those, both doubles.
 
Neither team got a runner on base until the fourth inning. Stupek singled and stole second, but was stranded. Osborn's first double of the game came in the fifth with two outs that advanced sophomore Jennah Perryman, who reached via a walk, to third, but she was stranded following a strikeout.
 
The Bobcats got their first hit in the top of the fifth and in the seventh, left runners on second and third.