ST. LOUIS, MO. – Junior Chelsea Martinez recorded four hits, including two home runs, and finished with eight RBI to help the University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team to a pair of five-inning victories over Wisconsin-Parkside in Great Lakes Valley Conference play on Saturday. The Tritons won by scores of 12-1 and 9-0.
 
UMSL out-hit the Rangers, 20-4, finishing with five doubles and three home runs.
 
Juniors Reagan Osborn and Serena Olson both reached base in six of seven plate appearances. Osborn tallied four hits and drew two walks, while Olson was walked four times and recorded two hits.
 
Records: UMSL (16-10, 3-1 GLVC), UW-Parkside (10-12, 1-3 GLVC)
 
Game 1: UMSL 12, UW-Parkside 1 (5 inn.)
A walk-off grand slam by Martinez ended the game in the fifth inning and was the ninth hit of the contest for the Tritons.
 
UMSL scored 11 of its 12 runs with two outs.
 
The Tritons plated three each in the first and second innings. Senior Jennah Perryman drove in the game's first run with an RBI single, while two more runs came home on an error.
 
Olson then belted her 12^th long ball of the season in the second inning, which drove in two runs, while another UMSL run came home on another Rangers error.
 
UW-Parkside led off the fourth inning with a solo home run, breaking up junior Carly Kingery's no-hitter. Kingery earned the complete game, two-hit victory behind seven strikeouts.
 
Osborn led off the fifth inning scoring with an RBI single. She finished 2-for-2 at the plate with two walks and scored three runs, while Martinez added two hits, four RBI and two runs. Olson drew three walks and scored three runs.
 
Game 2: UMSL 9, UW-Parkside 0 (5 inn.)
The Tritons sent 10 batters to the plate in the first inning, scoring four runs on five hits, including a two-run single from sophomore Andee Tiffee, a one-run double from Martinez and a one-run single from Perryman.
 
The lead grew to 6-0 in the second on a fielder's choice RBI from Martinez and a Perryman sac fly, while in the third an Osborn RBI double and a two-run homer from Martinez made it 9-0.
 
Tiffee struck out 10 in the win in four innings of work, improving to 8-3 on the season. She scattered just two hits.
 
UMSL registered 11 hits with two each from Osborn, Martinez and Tiffee.
 
Up Next: UMSL will host No. 16 Indianapolis tomorrow in another GLVC twinbill.