Box Score
CLAYTON – Webster scored 12 runs over the last three innings and had the tying run 90 feet away. However, they couldn’t get over the 12-run mountain they built for themselves as they fell to Washington University Monday at Kelly Field, 16-15.
Senior Andrew Fuiten continued his torrid hit, blasting two home runs and driving in five. He was finished the day 3-for-4 with two walks and a double.
Junior Will Savage (5-2) suffered his first loss since March 6 in surrendering 12 runs, eight earned in 3 1/3 innings of action.
After the Bears took the lead with two runs in the bottom of the bottom of the first, two home runs in the second gave Webster a brief lead. Senior Andrew Fuiten launched a mammoth solo home run to start the inning and junior Aaron Senzell capped the scoring with a two-out, two-run blast. It was his third long ball in as many games.
Washington reclaimed the lead with three in second and then chased Savage with a seven spot in the fourth.
Fuiten added another bomb in the seventh, 11th of the season, as Webster started on its comeback. He is now one behind the single-single mark of 12 he set last season.
The Gorloks added two more in the seventh, and then rallied for seven two-out runs in the eighth. Fuiten came within a couple feet of his third home run as his two-run double hit the halfway up the fence.
Sophomore Craig Schaefer was 4-for-6 with two runs scored and three RBI, while senior Kyle Starnes added a 4-for-5 outing with one run scored and an RBI. Junior Zach Little added a career-high four hits in five at-bats with two runs scored and an RBI.
Webster (21-11 overall) returns to SLIAC action Tuesday when they face MacMurray and Maryville in nine-inning games. WU hosts MacMurray at 4 p.m. before taking on the Saints at 7 p.m. A Webster victory in either game gives the Gorloks the SLIAC regular season title and the top seed that accompanies the championship.
