(Sauget, Ill.) - The Webster Gorlok baseball team split a non-conference doubleheader with Illinois College on Tuesday afternoon winning the first game 7-2 and losing game two 6-3 at GCS Ballpark in Sauget, Ill.

    In the opener the Gorloks (24-13) fell behind 1-0 in the first inning on a throwing error by the catcher with one out but avoided further damage getting the fourth to foul out to first and the fifth hitter to strike out swinging. They tied the game in the bottom of the inning with one out Dave Umfleet beat out a single to the second baseman then he moved to third on Andrew Fuiten's double to right field. Umfleet scored on Greg Steen's RBI single to right. That would be all they got though as a strike out and a pop up to second ended the threat.

    WU took the lead with three runs in the bottom of the second with Fuiten driving in two of those runs on a single up the middle to make it 4-1. It added another run in the third taking advantage of a throwing error by the pitcher, a passed ball and a sacrifice fly from Kyle Starnes. Steen added another run with his fourth HR of the season to lead off the fifth making it 6-1.

    The Blueboys (15-11-1) got one of those runs back in the sixth on a bases loaded single to short but Webster answered right back by manufacturing a run in the bottom of the inning with two outs Alex Raetzloff singled through the right side then stole second and scored on Umfleet's single to center for the final margin.

    John DuHadway went the first five innings allowing an unearned run on three hits while matching his season-high in strikeouts with eight  against four walks to improve to 4-2 on the year.

    In the second game IC again scored first getting two runs in the top of the first before the Gorloks were able to even things up with two of their own in the third. Fuiten hit a solo HR to right, his 11th of the year, to get on the board after Steen reached on a fielding error by the first baseman Dakota Huey tripled him home but was called out at third after sliding past the bag to end the rally.

    The Blueboys regained the lead in the fourth though when their lead off man singled to center then stole second and scored when he stole third and the throw went into left field to make it 3-2. Webster had an opportunity to take its first lead of the contest in the fifth with runners at second and third and only out and the infield in but a foul out to second and a strikeout looking ended the threat.

    IC broke the game open with a three run sixth inning scoring all of its runs after two were away with a single, a double, a hit batsmen and another double to make it 6-2. The Gorloks got its final run in the seventh when Steen drove in Raetzloff on a single to left center with two outs.

    Eric Broughton was the tough luck loser allowing three runs, one earned, on seven hits with a pair of walks and strikeouts to see his record drop to 3-2.

    Webster concludes the regular this season with a conference doubleheader at Principia on Friday evening beginning at 5 p..m. followed by a single nine inning game on Saturday evening starting at 8:30 p.m. at GCS Ballpark in Sauget, Ill.