Central Missouri Jennies softball will wrap up a six-game road trip with a doubleheader against the Missouri-St. Louis Tritons on April 21, with the first game scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at UMSL Softball Field in St. Louis.
The games are significant as they come near the end of the regular season and provide both teams an opportunity to strengthen their records ahead of postseason play. The Jennies enter the matchups with a record of 29-15 overall and 12-8 in conference play, while the Tritons hold a record of 21-19 overall and are 14-6 in their conference.
Central Missouri recently went 1-3 on their last road series, including a split doubleheader against No. 11 Missouri Southern and losses to No. 2 Pittsburg State. The team has shown offensive strength this season, hitting four home runs during a March victory over Northwest Missouri—the most since March two years prior—and currently maintains a .306 team batting average across all games played so far.
Head coach Susan Anderson is leading her squad through her twentieth season, returning twelve players from last year’s roster, including several All-MIAA selections such as Brooke Weimer and Taylor Thompson. Anderson is now the second-winningest coach in program history with more than five hundred victories and has guided Central Missouri to multiple tournament appearances over her tenure.
The upcoming doubleheader marks the continuation of a long-standing rivalry between Central Missouri and Missouri-St. Louis; it will be their fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh meetings all-time, with Central Missouri holding thirty-eight wins to seventeen for UMSL.
Looking ahead, Central Missouri will begin its final homestand of the regular season on April 25 when they host Nebraska-Kearney during Senior Day at Jennies Field.
