(BOX SCORE)
SAUGET, IL – On the strength of two big innings, Wartburg defeated Webster, 11-6, in the fifth game of the 2009 Central States Trailways Classic Saturday at GCS Ballpark.
The Knights scored four runs in each the fourth and fifth innings to open up a 10-2 lead.
After Wartburg took the lead with a run in the second, the Gorloks immediately answer with a run in their half.
Junior Dakota Huey and senior Andrew Fuiten started the inning with back-to-back singles. Junior Ricky Pisani moved the runners with a sacrifice bunt, and then sophomore Paul Kienker brought the run home with a sacrifice fly.
A solo homerun by Craig Schaefer got the Gorloks closer, but WC immediately got that run back off a solo shot to start the inning. They added three more in the fifth to take the aforementioned advantage at the end of five.
Pisani doubled and scored on a wild pitch in the seventh to get Webster to 10-3. A three-run eighth pulled WU to within 10-6. Huey brought home the first run with a single, another run was balked home and the scoring concluded with a RBI single by senior Andrew Fuiten.
Huey finished the game 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI, while Fuiten added two hits.
Junior Bryce Law (0-2) went 4 1/3 innings, allowing eight runs (six earned) on 10 hits.
NOTES
- Dakota Huey recorded his fourth multi-hit game of the season, bringing his career total to 13.
- Andrew Fuiten now has 24 career multi-hit games.
- After a first outing in which he allowed seven runs (five earned) in 1 1/3 innings, freshman Mike Gebhart rebounded with a nice relief performance. The lefty allowed one earned run in four innings.
