GREENVILLE, IL - Coming through with two outs has been one of the trademarks of the Webster baseball team this season. Thursday wasn't any different. The Gorloks scored 11 of 13 runs with two outs en route to the 13-7 victory over Greenville in St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action at Robert E. Smith Field. Coming into the game, 42 percent of Webster's runs batted in have come with two outs this season.

It was the first game of the team's three-game SLIAC series. The doubleheader is slated for noon Saturday at GCS Ballpark.

Webster came out bats-a-blazing, scoring seven runs over the first three innings. All of the runs over the course of those innings came with two outs. The second inning provided the biggest boost for WU. The Gorloks reclaimed the lead after watching Greenville knot the game with two runs in the bottom of the first.

Sophomore Brandon Micheletti and junior Zach Little opened the inning with back-to-back singles. It looked as if the effort would be wasted as the Panthers recovered to get two outs. However, sophomore Craig Schaefer came through with a single. Back-to-back hit batters forced another run plateward, and then senior Kyle Starnes capped the scoring with a two-run, two-out double.

The lead was pushed to five following a single run in the third. Undeterred Greenville slugged its way back into the game. A former Gorlok wrapped up the five-run fourth inning for GC with a three-run homer.

Scoring was a premium over the next three innings as the team's respective bullpen's kept the game tied at seven. Junior Bryan Stanley (2-1) earned the victory for Webster, hurling three innings of one-hit relief.

However, the eighth inning witnessed the Gorloks apply the pressure to GC.

Junior Dakota Huey started the inning with a single, moved to second on a groundout and to third on a wild pitch. It set the stage for Webster's hottest hitter to continue his torture of opposing pitching. Senior Andrew Fuiten, who is hitting .563 in the last five game, laced a single through the right side of the infield to score the eventual winning run. The scoring barrage wouldn't conclude until six runs, two unearned, had crossed the plate.

Starnes led the 18-hit barrage going 4-for-6 with three RBI and a run scored. Freshman Joe Biagini was 3-for-4 with three RBI, while Schaefer and Huey each added three hits in the game.