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EAST PEORIA, Ill. – No. 4 University of Missouri-St. Louis and No. 6 University of Southern Indiana have advanced through today’s games and will meet in Saturday’s Great Lakes Valley Conference Softball Championship finals at the EastSide Centre in East Peoria, Illinois, beginning at 12 p.m. Central Time.
The Tritons and Screaming Eagles both found their way to championship Saturday, but they did it in slightly different ways. USI has played three games all weekend – one today and two Thursday – while UMSL played two games apiece on both days.
Interestingly, USI’s lone contest today was against UMSL in the winners’ bracket, as the Eagles earned a 6-1 win to send the Tritons down to the losers’ bracket and punch a ticket directly to the championship game.
In the first two games of the day from the losers’ bracket, No. 8 Missouri S&T upset No. 2 McKendree University, 4-2, while No. 3 University of Indianapolis got an upset of its own, 2-0, thanks to Lauren Honkomp’s complete-game, no-hitter against No. 1 University of Illinois Springfield.
UIndy then went on to beat S&T, 9-5, to stay alive before falling to UMSL in the day’s final contest, 2-0.
This will be the defending champion Tritons’ sixth-straight appearance in the league’s title tilt while the Eagles sixth-ever visit but first since 2002. However, this meeting will be the first-ever between the two teams for the coveted hardware.
Earlier in the regular season on April 28, USI swept UMSL in Evansville (4-1, 3-1).
If the Tritons win the first matchup on Saturday, a second game will be played immediately following in order to decide the 2018 Softball Tournament Championship.
Streaming on the GLVC Sports Network will occur for the championship game on
GLVCSN.com, the iOS/Android mobile apps, or on the GLVCSN iOS/Android mobile apps, as well as on the Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Android TV OTT platforms. A replay of all games played today can be found on every platform by selecting the “On Demand” tab and searching for the stream.
Visit the championship homepage at
GLVCsports.com/2018softball and follow the @
GLVCsports Twitter account for more information and other details.