CLERMONT, FLA. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team opened an eight-game trip to Florida with a pair of victories on Friday morning. After outlasting Gannon, 6-5, in 11 innings, the Tritons downed Lake Erie, 9-1, in five innings.
 
Sophomore Andee Tiffee earned the win in the circle in both games, while also recording three hits, including her first collegiate home run, while junior Serena Olson had four hits and four RBIs.
 
UMSL improves to 6-8 overall and returns to the field tomorrow night against Ursuline at 5:30 p.m. (EST) and University of the Sciences at 7:30 p.m. (EST).
 
GAME 1: UMSL 6, Gannon 5 (11 inn.)
Records: UMSL (5-8), Gannon (3-6)
An RBI single in the 11^th inning by Olson brought home Tiffee for the game-winner.
 
Gannon forced extra play with back-to-back two-out hits in the seventh inning, including an RBI double that knotted the game at 3-3.
 
With the international tiebreaker rule in place, neither team was able to muster a run in the eighth, but both scored in the ninth on a sac fly, with UMSL's coming off the bat of Olson.
 
Senior Jennah Perryman gave the Tritons a 5-4 edge with a one-out double in the 10^th, but an RBI bunt single by the Knights in the bottom half of the frame made it 5-5.
 
Perryman finished with two doubles, her first coming in the fifth inning with two outs that drove in two runs to make it 2-2. Tiffee produced the go ahead RBI with a groundout to first in the sixth inning that scored junior Chelsea Martinez, who led of the frame with a double.
 
Tiffee picked up the win in two innings of relief work, striking out four and scattering just one hit, while junior Carly Kingery went nine innings in the start. She allowed five runs, including just two earned, on six hits, while striking out eight.  
 
The first two Gannon runs came in the second inning, one coming on an error and the other on a wild pitch.
 
UMSL tallied nine hits, including three from junior Madi Sundling. Olson added two hits.
 
Game 2: UMSL 9, Lake Erie 1 (5 inn.)
Records: UMSL (6-8), Lake Erie (4-6)
UMSL used three home runs en route to collecting the win. Olson delivered her team-leading fifth long ball in the fourth inning for a 2-1 lead, while the fifth inning featured a three-run homer from Tiffee – the first of her collegiate career – and a two-run shot from junior Reagan Osborn.
 
The Tritons tallied seven runs on six hits in the fifth, which also included an RBI double from Sundling.
 
Tiffee finished 2-for-3 at the plate, while also picking up the win in the circle, allowing just one run on five hits, while striking out 10.
 
Sundling and Olson added two hits each with both of Sundling's hits being doubles.