EAST PEORIA, ILL. – For the sixth straight year, the University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team will play in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament championship game.
 
The fourth-seeded Tritons lost a 6-1 decision to No. 6 seed Southern Indiana in the winner's bracket final, but fended off elimination with a 2-0 victory over No. 3 seed Indianapolis.
 
UMSL and Southern Indiana will meet in tomorrow's GLVC championship game at Noon with the if necessary game to follow. UMSL must defeat the Screaming Eagles twice if it looks to repeat as champion and capture its fifth league title in the last six years.
 
Game 1: No. 6 Southern Indiana 6, UMSL 1
Southern Indiana scored five runs in the third, including four on a grand slam.
 
Senior Jennah Perryman went 3-for-3 at the plate with a solo home run that got UMSL on the board in the sixth to make it 5-1. It was Perryman's 12^th homer of the season and the 41^st of her career.
 
Junior Carly Kingery took the loss, allowing five runs on five hits in three innings. She also struck out five and walked one.
 
Game 2: No. 4 UMSL 2, No. 3 Indianapolis 0
Kingery tossed the complete game, one-hit shutout, striking out nine to stymie the Greyhounds, who were playing their third game of the day.  
 
Kingery also helped herself offensively with two hits, including an RBI single in the fourth that made it 2-0.
 
UMSL took a 1-0 lead in the fifth when Perryman came home on redshirt sophomore Morgan Hill's RBI fielder's choice.
 
The Tritons recorded eight hits, including five off Lauren Honkomp who no-hit top-seeded Illinois Springfield in their first elimination game of the day.
 
Junior Madi Sundling added two hits.