Box Score On the road against the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference leader proved to be too much for the Webster University women’s basketball team as they lost to Westminster College, 74-58, on February 1, in Fulton, MO.  Maggie Zehner (JR, Oakville HS) paced the Gorloks in the loss with 17 points.

Zehner hit five of nine from the three-point line, and three of four in the second half to key a Webster run.  Tori Fenemor (SR, St. Charles HS) had a season high 12 points and Airyn Miller (JR, Belleville West HS, IL) led the Gorloks with five rebounds, scoring eight points in the game as well. 

Westminster, looking to rebound from its first SLIAC loss of the year last weekend, took a 41-25 halftime lead on the Gorloks.  But Webster quickly shaved the lead down to six, 45-39, at the 15.34 mark in the second.  The Blue Jays slowly extended the lead back to 14 and held on for the win.  Webster was lights out from the free throw line to help keep them in the ballgame, hitting 19 of 22 attempts.  The team has shot over an 80% clip from the line for its last four games.

Webster remains in fourth place in the SLIAC with a 6-4 record, four games ahead on the loss side of the next closest pursuer     for the final spot in the conference post-season tournament.  The Gorloks are 8-11 overall. 

They return home on February 4 to face Eureka College (IL) on Hall of Fame Day.  Three new members will be inducted into the Webster Athletics Hall of Fame at halftime of the men’s game including two former women’s basketball players, Jeanne Zes Gilbert and Laura Stuhlman Pieter.  The Gorloks then head to Principia College on February 7.