ST. LOUIS, MO. – The No. 7 ranked University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team limited visiting Lewis to three runs on Saturday as the Tritons swept the Flyers in Great Lakes Valley Conference play. UMSL won by scores of 4-1 and 9-2.
 
The Tritons combined for 20 hits offensively as they improve to 22-1 overall, including 4-0 in the GLVC, and extend their win streak to 11 games. Lewis is now 11-10 and 1-3 in the conference.
 
UMSL wraps up its current homestand on Wednesday with a non-conference doubleheader against Lincoln at 4 p.m.  
 
GAME 1: UMSL 4, Lewis 1
The Tritons jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the second inning, taking advantage of a Lewis throwing error to score the game's first run as junior Sara Kern scampered home on the miscue.
 
UMSL added another run in the third inning when junior Alex Stupek delivered her second double of the game with this one scoring junior Rachel Matthies, who also doubled.
 
Lewis got one run back in the fourth inning with a solo home run from Carly Jaworski and threatened in the fifth inning leaving runners on second and third after having a runner called out at home on a squeeze attempt. Senior pitcher Hannah Perryman picked up the bunt and got it to catcher Serena Olson for the tag out on that play.
 
Kern and redshirt freshman Alicia Shivers recorded a pair of RBI singles in the fifth inning to extend the lead to 4-1.
 
Stupek went 3-for-4 at the plate for the Tritons, which totaled eight hits.
 
Perryman recorded the complete game victory, which also marked her 100^th career victory. She scattered five hits, but struck out nine without issuing a walk.
 
GAME 2: UMSL 9, Lewis 2
The Tritons broke open the game with a five-run sixth inning, which included a grand slam from sophomore Jennah Perryman.
 
UMSL tallied 12 hits, including three from freshman Reagan Osborn, who tallied a single, a double and a triple. Matthies and junior Ryan Logan each added two hits.
 
Freshman Serena Olson put the Tritons on the board in the second inning with a two-run home run – her fourth of the year – but the Flyers knotted the score in the third.
 
An RBI groundout from senior Erin Walker and a Matthies RBI single in the fourth inning gave UMSL a 4-2 lead it would not relinquish.
 
Freshman Carly Kingery picked up the win in the circle, giving up seven hits, while striking out five and walking two. She left seven Flyers stranded on the bases, including bases loaded in the fifth.