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Box Score 2 The #22 ranked Webster University baseball team ended its 2015 home schedule with a doubleheader split vs. Fontbonne University, losing 2-0 and winning 10-0. Webster honored five seniors, playing their final home game at GCS Ballpark in a ceremony between the games on May 2.
Despite a strong start from one of the five seniors honored in
game one, Isaac Behme (Harrisburg, IL/Harrisburg HS), the normally potent Webster offense could not get untracked against the Griffins. Behme went all seven innings, allowing two runs on four hits and two walks, and striking out six. Behme's record dropped to 6-4 with the loss.
Fontbonne scored a run in the fifth inning and added a second in the seventh. Webster's best chance to score came in the fourth when Max Fecske (SO, North Hollywood, CA/Notre Dame HS) and Blake Thomas (JR, Troy, IL/Triad HS) singled to start the inning. Kyle Uhrich (SO, St. Louis, MO/Webster Groves HS) followed with a strikeout as Fecske was gunned down trying to steal third.
In the Webster seventh, with two outs pinch hitter Connor Hogan (SO, New Lenox, IL/Lincoln Way West HS) reached on an error and Matt Wollnik (SO, Naperville, IL/Neuqua Valley HS) reached on an infield hit. Charlie Gandolfi (SR, Mundelein, IL/Mundelein HS) grounded out to third to end the game.
The Gorloks managed only five hits in the contest. Fecske wound up 2-3 in the contest.
C. J. Lee (SO, Aurora, IL/Waubonsie Valley HS) took the mound in
game two for Webster. He would wind up going six innings, giving up no runs, five hits, three walks, and striking out eight. Lee improved to 4-1 on the season with the win. Another of the honored seniors, Dylan Dean Smith (Albion, IL/Edwards County HS), threw a scoreless seventh, striking out one.
Webster took a 1-0 lead in the second when Jeff Kammer (SR, Chesterfield, MO/Lafayette HS) singled and Dylan Rajkovich (JR, Orland Park, IL/Carl Sandburg HS) was hit by a pitch. After a sacrifice bunt by Gandolfi, Wollnik drove in Kammer with a ground out.
The Gorloks added three more in the fourth. Rajkovich was hit by a pitch with one down and took second on a wild pitch. He scored on a single by Wollnik with two down. After Gandolfi was also hit by a pitch, Mike Golich (FR, Aurora, IL/West Aurora HS) singled in Wollnik and Fecske singled in Gandolfi to give Webster a 4-0 lead.
Webster made it 7-0 in the sixth. Gandolfi singled and Golich reached on an infield hit. After Gandolfi was thrown out at home on a Fecske ground out, Golich scored on a Thomas sacrifice fly. Uhrich doubled home Fecske. Kammer singled in Uhrich for the third run of the inning.
In the seventh, Adam Naliwajko singled and Wollnik reached on an E5. Gandolfi singled in pinch runner Mike Wick. After Golich walked, Wollnik scored on a wild pitch. Thomas singled in Gandolfi for the 10th and game-winning run by the 10-run rule.
Golich was 3-3, with two walks, RBI, a stolen base, and run scored. Thomas was 1-3 with two RBIs, and Kammer was 2-3 with an RBI and stolen base.
Behme, Gandolfi, Chris Jansen (Cicero, IN/Bishop Chatard HS), Zach Schneider (Grayslake, IL/Warren Township HS), and Dylan Dean Smith all were honored for their careers at Webster.
Behme will leave as the Webster career leader in wins, strikeouts, games started and innings pitched, and currently has the fifth lowest career earned run average. Behme was the SLIAC 2014 Pitcher of the Year and 2012 Newcomer of the Year. Behme's career record is 30-10 for the Gorloks.
Gandolfi has appeared in 132 games for Webster as an outfielder, the 10th highest all-time total, and has a career .317 batting average for the Gorloks. Jansen has pitched two seasons for Webster and had a 5-1 record in 2014 and is 7-1 overall in 17 appearances on the mound for the Gorloks.
Schneider has a 12-5 record in four seasons pitching for Webster. His 83 strikeouts in 2011 is the third highest total in a single season for Webster. Schneider was on the mound when Webster defeated #1 ranked Christopher Newport College, 11-1, in the 2011 NCAA III Regional and was named to the All-Regional team.
Smith, a starter/reliever, has the second most wins in Webster history, with a career 22-6 record and a 2.55 ERA. His career earned run average is the third lowest in Gorloks history. In 2015, Smith is 6-3 with a stellar 0.83 ERA, following up an 8-1 record and 2.80 ERA in 2014.
Webster finished first at 10-2 in the SLIAC Western Division and 18-4 overall in the SLIAC. Webster is 29-11 overall on the season. The Gorloks will play the #2 team in the SLIAC East in the first round of the SLIAC postseason tournament on May 7 at host Greenville College (IL).