ST. LOUIS – The University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team split its two games on Thursday at The Spring Games in Leesburg, Fla. The Tritons dropped their first game of the day to seventh ranked Grand Valley 5-1 and then defeated Edinboro 9-0 in six innings in their afternoon contest.
Game 2 – UMSL 9 Edinboro 0 6 innings
UMSL (8-8) jumped out to an early lead with a run in the home half of the first.
Megan Brown drove in
McKenzie Lamos with a single to right center to put the Tritons on top.
UMSL added four runs on five hits in the second.
Irene Travis brought in
Annie Scaramuzzi with a single up the middle for the first run of the frame.
Maddie Snemis scored on Lamos' single to short to make it 3-0. Brown drove in Travis with a sacrifice fly to center and
Corinne Daley capped the scoring with a single to short scoring Lamos.
That was all the run support that
Mimi Bradley needed as she held the Fighting Scots (3-4) to just three hits while striking out a career-high 14 batters in six innings pitched to earn the complete game shutout victory and move to 1-0 on the season.
The Tritons ended the game in the sixth scoring four runs on three hits. Scaramuzzi reached on an error to start the inning and scored on Travis' single to left. Lamos hit a three-run homer to center bringing in Snemis and Travis for the run-rule victory.
UMSL outhit Edinboro 12-3 and was led by Travis and Snemis with three hits apiece. Lamos drove in four runs.
Game 1 – No. 7 Grand Valley 5 UMSL 1
The Tritons had their chances to score against the Lakers (11-2) Hannah Beatus but left seven runners on base in the contest.
Grand Valley scored a in the first on an RBI single from Joanna Cirrincione that scored Hannah Hollister to take the early lead.
The Lakers added a pair of runs in the second. Morgan Spicer scored on a throwing error by Travis and later in the inning Kaitlin Lynch drove in Hollister with a single to right.
Grand Valley scored its final two runs of the contest in the fifth. With two out, Spicer singled up the middle scoring Jenna Ballard and Alexis McCullough.
UMSL got a run back in the seventh as Travis singled with two outs scoring
Anna VanGundy. The Tritons threatened for more with runners at second and third but Lamos popped up to the pitcher to end the game.
UMSL was outhit in the contest 7-4 and was led by Travis, VanGundy, Scaramuzzi and Snemis with one hit apiece.
Ashley Borowitz got the start in the circle allowing five runs, three earned, on four hits with a pair of strikeouts and three walks in 4.2 innings pitched to fall to 2-2 on the season.
The Tritons return to the diamond on Friday afternoon taking on Ashland at 1 p.m. (CST) and Holy Family University at 3:30 p.m. (CST) at the Legends Way Complex in Clermont, Fla.
