MEMPHIS, TENN. – Junior Sara Kern tallied six hits, including two home runs, and recorded four RBIs to help the No. 7 ranked University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team to a pair of shutout victories at Christian Brothers on Tuesday afternoon. The Tritons posted a 5-0 game one victory before taking the nightcap, 14-0, in five innings.
 
The Tritons finished the twinbill with 26 hits and improve to 6-0 with the victories, while Christian Brothers slips to 3-5 overall.
 
UMSL will play six games Friday-Sunday at the 8-State Classic, hosted by Arkansas-Monticello in Bentonville.
 
GAME 1: UMSL 5, Christian Brothers 0
Kern tallied three hits and three RBIs in the victory, including a two-run homer that gave UMSL an early 2-0 lead in the second inning.
 
Kern picked up her third RBI in the third inning, scoring freshman Reagan Osborn, who reached on a fielding error, while junior Ryan Logan delivered a two-run double to send junior Alex Stupek across the plate.
 
UMSL's first four runs were unearned behind two Christian Brothers errors.
 
Osborn drove in the fifth run on a single to center field, scoring freshman Carly Kingery, who doubled down the left field line.
 
Senior Hannah Perryman struck out 10 in the complete game three-hit shutout and issued just one walk. She tied the program's career record with her 74^th complete game, equaling Jill Stockdale (1993-95). Perryman also went over 1,200 career strikeouts, moving up to 11^th on the NCAA career charts with 1,203 Ks.
 
GAME 2: UMSL 14, Christian Brothers 0 (5 inn.)
The Tritons pounded out 17 hits in game two, including four from Stupek and three from Kern. Freshman Serena Olson was one of three players to tally two hits, both of which were home runs, to finish with five RBIs, while Osborn added three RBIs, including two on a triple. Nine different players got in the hit column.
 
Olson knocked out her first long ball in a four-run first inning and her second in a six-hit, six-run fifth inning. Kern also delivered her second homer of the day in that frame.
 
Stupek scored three runs, including her 100^th career run.
 
Kingery picked up her second win of the season in the circle, recording her first career shutout. She scattered four hits, struck out four and issued one walk.