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Truman State soccer picks up 1-0 victory to advance in Women’s NCAA D-II Tournament. UCM and UMSL set to play

November 13, 2015 By Bill Pollock

#5 Megan Frkovic

Senior Megan Frkovic scored in the 50th minute, and the Truman women’s soccer team dominated play throughout much of the night to open the 2015 NCAA Div. II tournament with a 1-0 win against Cedarville (Ohio) on Thursday night.

The Bulldogs (15-2-5), who were making the 11th NCAA postseason in school history, out-shot CU (13-5-4) 7-2 in the opening 45 minutes. Then, after weathering a brief Yellow Jacket swarm at the start of the second half, the purple and white earned a corner kick just four minutes into the half. Frkovic sent a ball into the box, which was returned out to her just off the end line. She then floated a ball towards the goal, which carried just enough to go over the out-stretched hands of the CU keeper and in to give Truman a 1-0 lead.

Much of possession in the second half was played in the Bulldogs’ attacking third of the field; however, the Bulldogs couldn’t find an insurance goal, despite out-shooting the Jackets 7-1 in the second half. CU put together one last effort in the final three minutes – earning its only two corner kicks of the night – but the Bulldogs held off any tying effort and advanced to the NCAA tournament’s second round.

For the game, Truman out-shot CU, 14-3 (7-2 on goal), and took eight corner kicks to the Jackets’ two. Senior midfielder Alexis Heffernan took a game-high five shots, putting three on goal, while junior forward Stephanie Williams took four. Sophomore Katie Mattingly recorded her 12th shutout of the year, making two saves aginst a Cedarville offense that had scored 76 goals on the season entering Thursday night’s match.

The Bulldogs advance to face the second-seeded Knights of Bellarmine, who come into the tournament at 16-2-2 overall. BU defeated Truman, 1-0, in overtime in Louisville during the teams’ only meeting this year.

The MIAA Regular Season and Tournament Champion Jennies Soccer team earned the No. 1 seed for the NCAA-II Central Region Soccer Tournament as announced by the NCAA on Monday evening.

As the No. 1 seed the Jennies will host one half of the Central Regional on Friday, Nov. 13 and Sunday, Nov. 15 in Warrensburg. UCM will host fourth-seeded Minot State and the No. 5 seed Winona State. Those two teams will play in Warrensburg on Friday at 1 p.m. with the winner advancing to face the Jennies on Sunday at noon at Jennies Field at the South Recreation Complex.

The Jennies are making their sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance and their ninth appearance overall.

UMSL travels to Allendale, Mich., to begin play in the 2015 NCAA Tournament. The Tritons are the five seed in the Midwest Region and will face four-seed Quincy on Friday at 7 p.m. (EST). The winner advances to Sunday’s second round against host and top-seeded Grand Valley State, the two-time defending national champion.

Number one ranked UMSL and 20th ranked Central Missouri one win away from D-II softball World Series

May 16, 2015 By Bill Pollock

Missouri-St. Louis (pictured) and Central Missouri can represent our state at the D-II softball World Series (photo/umsltritons.com)

Senior Katie Wood delivered a two-out, two-run home run in the bottom of the third inning to lead the No. 1 ranked University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team to a 2-1 victory over No. 10 Indianapolis on Friday in game one of the 2015 NCAA Division II Midwest Super Regional.

UMSL takes a 1-0 lead in the best of three games series and will look for the sweep Saturday when the two teams meet again at Noon. If necessary, a third and deciding game would follow.

Hannah Perryman tossed the complete game victory, improving to 30-3 in the circle.

Katie Shockley tossed a complete-game four-hitter and Lindsey Dawson went 2-for-3 with three RBI and the 20th-ranked Jennies beat ninth-ranked Augustana 6-0 in the first game of the best-of-three Central Super Regional on Friday afternoon at Bowden Field in South Dakota.

The win for Shockley was her sixth straight and her 22nd in her last 23 decisions. She is now 26-6 on the season and her 26 wins is a new UCM single-season record.

The Jennies lead the Super Regional series 1-0 and can advance to the NCAA-II Championships with one win on Saturday. Game two has been moved up to 10 a.m. on Saturday morning with the “if necessary” game three set for 12:30 p.m.

Missouri-St. Louis softball wins their regional championship and will now host Super Regionals for Division II

May 12, 2014 By Bill Pollock

Missouri-St. Louis advances to D-II Super Regionals (photo/UMSL Athletics)

Junior Madison Zbaraschuk’s walk-off RBI double in the seventh inning lifted the No. 6 University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team to a 4-3 victory over No. 25 Truman State on Sunday in the NCAA Midwest Regional #1 final, sending the Tritons to the Super Regionals. UMSL improved to 48-6 overall with the win, recording its 10th straight victory.

Zbaraschuk’s heroics came after the Tritons’ lone senior, Ashleigh King, led off the seventh inning by reaching on an error and advancing to second on the high throw by Bulldogs’ third baseman Cate Simon. Zbaraschuk, who was 0-2 before her game-winning hit, swung on the first pitch, delivering the ball to deep left center, bringing King across the plate.

UMSL, which didn’t trail all tournament, overcame two one-run deficits in the game to garner the win.

The No. 6 ranked University of Missouri-St. Louis softball team will host Wayne State (Mich.) Friday and Saturday in the NCAA DII Midwest Super Regional, as announced tonight by the NCAA. The top-seeded Tritons and the No. 2 seed Warriors will square off in a best of three series with the winner advancing to the NCAA DII Championship May 22-26 in Salem, Va.

UMSL and Wayne State will play one game on Friday at 1 p.m. and then again on Saturday at 12 p.m. If necessary, a third game would follow at 2:30 p.m. UMSL enters the program’s first-ever Super Regional on a 10-game win streak, while Wayne State has advanced to its program’s second Super Regional, and the first since 2010. The Warriors have won 19 straight games.

UMSL makes it back-to-back GLVC softball championships, while Missouri Western also earns an automatic NCAA bid. Brackets released

May 5, 2014 By Bill Pollock

Missouri-St Louis softball

The 11th ranked Missouri-St. Louis softball team successfully defended its Great Lakes Valley Conference title on Sunday by defeating Bellarmine, 3-0, in the 2014 championship game.

Two-time GLVC Pitcher of the Year Hannah Perryman tossed her second no-hitter of the season and the third of her career, leading the No. 2 seeded Tritons to the victory over the No. 4 seeded Knights, while also recording 12 strikeouts. She improved to 25-5 in the circle, tying an UMSL single season record.

UMSL recorded a program-best 45th victory with the win, improving to 45-6 overall. The Tritons went 4-0 in the GLVC Tournament with wins over Illinois Springfield (1-0), #22 Truman State (5-0) and Bellarmine twice (3-2, 3-0) and has now won seven straight.

With the win, UMSL also receives the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Regional Tournament.

The championship is the third in the program. In addition to last year’s title, the 1989 team won the 1989 MIAA Championship. It is also just the third GLVC championship for UMSL in any sport, with the 2003 baseball team winning the GLVC crown.

Missouri Western softball

Missouri Western scored seven runs in the 7th inning on their way to a 12-0 victory over the Northeastern State RiverHawks in the MIAA Tournament Championship. The victory was Jackie Bishop’s 25th of the season which ties her career high for victories in a season. The Griffons are 38-16 on the season and will play next weekend in the NCAA Central Regional. Bishop threw a one hitter while striking out 10 and walking just one.

The Griffons had 12 hits in the game with two coming from Kat Steponovich, Michelle Stevenson and Morgan Rathmann.

Missouri Western is the fifth seed in the Central Region and the Griffons (38-16) will take on fourth seed Augustana SD (43-13) on Friday at 4:30 p.m.

In the Midwest Regional, Truman State (40-11) received an at-large bid as the fourth seed and will play Ohio Dominican (29-26) on Friday at 1 p.m. In the same bracket, it will be a rematch of the GLVC championship game between top seed Missouri-St. Louis (43-5) against 8th seeded Bellarmine (37-15), Friday at 2:30 p.m.

NCAA Brackets

Drury University and Central Missouri advance in NCAA Tournament. Truman St and UMSL out

March 15, 2014 By Bill Pollock

Annie Armstrong puts up a shot against Truman State. (photo/Drury Athletics)

Drury University guard Annie Armstrong scored a career-high 22 points, including the driving bucket to send it to overtime, as the top seeded Panthers escaped with a 74-68 victory over No. 8 seed Truman State in overtime of the NCAA-II MIdwest Regional women’s basketball tournament Friday night at the O’Reilly Family Event Center.

Amber Dvorak added 21 points and 12 rebounds as the Lady Panthers (25-3) advanced to Sunday’s 2:30 p.m. semifinal against fifth-seed Quincy (23-6).

Amy Briggs put Truman State up 65-53 with a three-pointer with 1:15 to go, but both teams turned it over twice in the final minute before Armstrong’s running jumper with 10 seconds left tied at 65, and Briggs missed a potential game-winner before time expired.

The Lady Panthers never trailed in overtime.

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UCM and UMSL golf headed to nationals

May 5, 2011 By Bill Pollock

For the first time since 2001, the University of Missouri-St. Louis men’s golf team is heading to the NCAA Championships. The Tritons tied for fourth place in the Midwest/South Central Regional to secure their spot in the field of 20 teams from across the country that will compete for a national championship May 16-20 at Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at the Shoals in Florence, Ala.

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Men’s D-II golf regionals heads into second round

May 3, 2011 By Bill Pollock

After the first round of regional men’s golf on the Division II level, Central Missouri is 4th, Missouri-St. Louis is 5th and Drury University is tied for 12th. Ryan Penfield of UMSL is tied for third in individual scores at two under. Zack Van Dolah and Matt Miller of Central Missouri shot one under, they are tied for 8th. Second round goes on today in Georgetown, Kentucky, with the final round on Wednesday.

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USML named Tappmeyer as men’s coach

April 9, 2010 By Bill Pollock

Tappmeyer arrives at USML after 21 seasons at Northwest Missouri State

The University of Missouri-St. Louis has named Steve Tappmeyer as their new men’s basketball coach. Tappmeyer replaces Chris Pilz who was 77-114 in seven seasons.

“We are delighted to name Steve as our new coach and welcome him and his family to St. Louis,” said UMSL A.D. Lori Flanagan. “Steve is an excellent choice for UMSL from every perspective – in terms of the basketball component, his ability to serve as a mentor and his skills as a proven leader. He is the right coach to lead UMSL men’s basketball to the next level.”

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