Sophomore Morgan Lint teamed with Hannah Tse to win the No. 1 doubles match against Southern Indiana and also pulled out a three-set victory at No. 4 singles to give UMSL a 4-3 dual meet win. (Photo by Luke Rinne/UMSL Athletics)
Women’s Tennis
The University of Missouri–St. Louis women’s tennis team beat NCAA Division I Southern Indiana 4-3 on Saturday afternoon in a dual meet at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center in Forest Park. Sophomore Morgan Lint delivered the decisive point for the Tritons when she pulled out a three-set victory in her No. 4 singles match against Enna Krnjic, winning 6-2, 4-6, 1-0 (8-7). Lint also teamed with Hannah Tse to put together a 6-4 win in the No. 1 doubles match against Antonia Ferrarini and Rylie Wilkison. UMSL also got a doubles victory from Anna Favaron and Lauren Sweeney, who won 6-0 at No. 3 doubles, giving the Tritons the doubles point. Aleksandra Lopez and Giuliana Cunza secured the other two singles victories for UMSL with Lopez winning 6-4, 6-3 over Wilkison at No. 3 singles and Cunza winning 6-0, 6-0 against Claire Meyer at No. 6 singles. The Tritons improved to 4-1 in dual meets this season. UMSL is idle until March 15, when it will face McPherson at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center.
Men’s Tennis
The Tritons fell 5-2 in Saturday’s dual meet against NCAA Division I Southern Indiana at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center. UMSL won the doubles points after taking two of the three matches. Percy Siercke and Tommy Griese won 6-3 at No. 1 doubles against Axel Sabourin and Jy Hibbert, and the team of Tanin Ramnath and Daniel Berdecio won the No. 2 doubles match 7-6 (4) against Aaron Dawson and Kalani Hibbert. But the Tritons struggled in singles. Andrea Ricart scored the lone UMSL point when he pulled out a 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (12-10) win over Hibbert at No. 6 singles. Siercke, Henry Roberts and Ramnath each lost their singles matches in three sets. The Tritons (1-5) will next play March 15 against McPherson at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center.
Women’s Basketball
No. 20 UMSL dropped its final game of the regular season, losing to Drury 93-80 on Thursday in Springfield, Missouri. Morgan Ramthun, fresh off being name the Great Lakes Valley Conference Player of the Week, scored a career-high 27 points for the Tritons. She also pulled down 11 rebounds. UMSL had three other players finish in double figures with Mara Rieder scoring 14 points, Jayden Kuper adding 13 and Anna Costa Riera tallying 11, and the team shot 52.4% from the field. But the Tritons couldn’t disrupt Drury’s offense. The Panthers hit 62.5% of their field-goal attempts and were 18 for 21 from the foul line. Kaylee King matched Ramthun’s 27 points, and both she and teammate Sara Mendel went 9 for 11 from the field. UMSL (22-4, 18-2 GLVC) had already wrapped up the GLVC regular-season title and will be seeded first when it hosts the conference tournament beginning Thursday at the Mark Twain Athletic Center. It will open play against No. 8 seed Upper Iowa at noon.
Men’s Basketball
The Tritons season came to an end after losing at Drury 76-70 on Thursday night in Springfield, Illinois. UMSL wound up losing out to the Panthers in the battle for the final spot in the conference tournament after coming up short in the league’s Point Rating System. Taye Moore scored a game-high 25 points in Thursday’s loss. He and teammate Miles Boland each scored 13 points in the first half while helping the Tritons edge in front 36-33. But UMSL connected on only 36.7% of its field-goal attempts, including 3 of 14 3-pointers, in the second half while getting outscored 43-34. The Panthers had five players in double figures, and Luke Stubbs led the way with 16 points. Drury shot 50% from the field, including 57.1% in the second half. The Tritons finished the season 16-13, including 10-10 in GLVC play.
Softball
UMSL went 2-3 last week at the Oasis Division II Collegiate Classic in Marion, Illinois. The Tritons snapped an eight-game losing streak when it knocked off Ferris State 12-4 in five innings on Saturday, and it added a 5-4 nine-inning win over Wisconsin-Parkside on Sunday. But UMSL also lost one-run games against Purdue Northwest and Grand Valley State on Friday and fell to Grand Valley State 10-2 in five innings on Saturday. Kiley Sullivan, May Pasqualini, Gracie Philpot, Kaytie Kossina, Sasha Buckberger, Rylie Buchanan and Madison Rozanski each had two hits for the Tritons in Saturday’s victory, and Sullivan, Pasqualini, Philpot and Buckberger each also had two RBI. UMSL plated 10 runs in the third inning against Ferris State. Buckberger delivered the game-winning hit in Sunday’s win over Parkside, scoring Philpot in the ninth inning. She also picked up the win in the circle, allowing no earned runs in five innings of relief while striking out five. Pasqualini went 3 for 4 with an eighth-inning RBI and a run scored. She had nine hits in the weekend’s final four games and is now batting .431 on the year. UMSL (6-12) will host Purdue Northwest for a doubleheader on Saturday and will also play Wisconsin-Parkside in a doubleheader on Sunday.
Baseball
The Tritons dropped their home opener, falling to Missouri S&T 8-2 on Wednesday at the UMSL Baseball Field. Coach Scott Eul‘s team’s only runs came courtesy of Mitch Bonczkowski‘s RBI single in the fifth and Ayden Cline‘s pinch hit RBI single in the eighth. UMSL got outhit 11-5 in the loss. It also committed three errors, leading to five unearned runs by the Miners. The Tritons (4-8) will take on Davenport at home on Wednesday before beginning a three-game weekend series against visiting Hillsdale on Friday.
Men’s Golf
UMSL sits in a tie for fifth place after the opening day of the Las Vegas Classic. The host Tritons posted a combined score of 293 at the Desert Hawk Coyote Run Course at the Boulder Creek Golf Club in Boulder City, Nevada. Dani Solavera, Logan Mayo and Ludvig Granlund each carded rounds of 1-over-par 73 and are tied for 21st. Trigg Lindahl is one shot back in a tie for 31st. Leo Baudry shot an opening-round 80. West Texas A&M’s Luis Palomo shot a 68 on Sunday and holds a one-shot lead over Florida Southern’s Max Barile, though Florida Southern is the team leader with a score of 289 through 18 holes. The tournament continues on Monday and concludes Tuesday.
Men’s and Women’s Swimming
The Tritons will send six swimmers to next week’s NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships, which will run from March 10-14 at the Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Indiana. The final field was announced last Wednesday. Justice Beard will lead the way after qualifying for her third straight national meet and finishing second in the 1,650-yard freestyle, fourth in the 1,000-yard freestyle and fifth in the 500-yard freestyle a year ago. She enters this year’s national meet as the top seed in all three events, and she will also swim in the 200-yard freestyle as the No. 9 seed. Sisters Audrey and Ella Lantz are also making their third straight appearances in the national meet. Audrey is seeded 13th in the 50-yard freestyle, 22nd in the 100-yard butterfly and 43rd in the 100-yard freestyle. Ella is the No. 17 seed in the 100-yard backstroke. Romina Itzkovich will make her second NCAA appearance and will be seeded 17th in the 200-yard individual medley. Uxue Ortiz de Pinedo will race in the national meet for the first time as the No. 22 seed in the 200-yard breaststroke. UMSL’s women’s team will also compete in all five relays – the 200-, 400- and 800-yard freestyle and the 200- and 400-yard medley relays. Aaron Wicklund is the lone member of the Tritons’ men’s team to qualifying for nationals. He also competed in the meet in 2024. He is seeded 21st in the 200-yard breaststroke, 25th in the 400-yard individual medley and 36th in the 200 IM.
