ST. LOUIS – The University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team finished its trip to Florida with a 9-3 record after defeating Hillsdale 6-3 in eight innings and New Haven 9-2 on Tuesday at the Spring Games in Leesburg, Fla. The Tritons improve to 14-10 on the season and have won four in a row.
Game 1 – UMSL 6 Hillsdale 3 8 innings
The Chargers (8-10) took the early lead with a run in the home half of the third as Emma Vis hit a double to left center to drive in Hailey Holtman.
UMSL scored a pair of unearned runs in the top half of the fourth to take the lead then added to it in the fifth as
Irene Travis tripled to right center to score
Courtney Settles.
Hillsdale tied the game in the seventh on a two-out single to left off the bat of Holtman scoring Anna Chellman and Taylor Lewis with the tying runs. Holtman advanced to second on the throw home and represented the winning run but
Mimi Bradley stuck out Vis swinging to send the game to extra innings.
The Tritons scored three times in the eighth to take the lead.
Maddie Snemis drove in
Annie Scaramuzzi with the go-ahead run with a fielder's choice to first and went to second on a throwing error by the first baseman. Settles drove in Snemis with a ground out to first to make it 5-3 and
Megan Brown capped the scoring with a double to left scoring
McKenzie Lamos.
Bradley set down the Chargers in the bottom half of the inning to pick up her third win of the season.
UMSL had nine hits in the contest and was led by Travis and
Corinne Daley with two each. Bradley went the distance allowing three runs, one earned, on four hits with 13 strikeouts against two walks.
Game 2 – UMSL 9 New Haven 2
The Tritons scored all nine of its runs against New Haven (0-9) in the first five innings. UMSL scored three runs in the home half of the first and wouldn't look back. Travis drove in the first two runs with a single to left and
Jamie Widule followed with another single to drive in Settles.
The Chargers got a run back in the second on Aaliyah Arnidon's RBI single to left.
The Tritons added two more runs in their half of the second as Travis reached on an error by the second baseman to drive in Lamos. Scaramuzzi walked with the bases loaded to make it 5-1.
New Haven got its second run in the third trying to execute a double steal but the runner was thrown out at second as the runner from third scored on the throw down to second.
UMSL extended its lead to 6-2 in the third as Snemis scored on an error by the second baseman on a relay throw from short.
The Tritons sealed the win with three runs in the fifth. Settles drove in Snemis with a sacrifice fly while Travis and Brown added RBI singles.
UMSL outhit the Chargers 10-5 and were led by Travis with three while Brown and Widule added two apiece.
Ashley Borowitz allowed two runs on five hits with five strikeouts to pick up the complete game victory and improve to 4-3 on the season.
The Tritons are back at home on Saturday hosting Quincy in a doubleheader to begin GLVC play at 12 p.m. at the UMSL Softball Field.
