The UMSL Tritons baseball team will head into the postseason with a 30-20 record. (Photo: Thomas Grove)

Jason Barnes
Staff Writer

NORMANDY, MO — The final regular season series of 2024 ended with a whimper for the University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball, as the Tritons lost three of its final four games to downstate rival Missouri S&T. But UMSL still qualified for the postseason and reached a milestone the program hadn’t reached in more than a decade.

The Tritons finished the regular season with a 30-20 record and that was the first time UMSL had reached the 30-win total since 2012. UMSL will now head into the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament as the No. 5 seed and will play in Game 1 against No. 4 seed Quincy.

That game is scheduled for Wednesday morning at 9 a.m., at Mt. Dew Park in Marion, Ill. The winner of that contest will advance to the first winner’s bracket game, which will be played on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The loser will fall into the first elimination game of the tournament, which will be played on Thursday at 12:30 p.m.

Other teams in the GLVC Tournament include, No. 1 seed Indianapolis, No. 2 seed Maryville, No. 3 seed Drury, No. 6 seed William Jewell, No. 7 seed Rockhurst, and No. 8 seed Lewis.

The winner of the event will not only be declared 2024 GLVC champions, that team will also earn an automatic bid into the NCAA Division II National Championship Tournament. UMSL’s last NCAA Tournament bid came in 2003, when the Tritons won the GLVC championship.