CLAYTON, Mo. - Webster University saw its 2019 softball season come to a close here on Tuesday evening as the Gorloks dropped both ends of a non-conference doubleheader to Washington University in St. Louis at the WU Softball Field.

WashU opened the doubleheader by taking advantage of eight Webster errors to post a 9-2 win in the first game, before the Bears used 13 hits and scored nine runs in earning a 9-4 in the nightcap. 

With the two setbacks, Webster closes out the season with a 10-24 overall record and WashU improves to 15-14 overall. The 10 wins this season are the fewest for the Gorloks since posting a 10-23 overall record in 2015, but Webster did extend its streak of winning 10 or more games to 20. 

In Tuesday's doubleheader, Webster's offense recorded a total of nine hits, but its defense struggled as the Gorloks committed 10 errors that led to seven unearned runs. The eight errors were tied for second most errors in a single game in school history and the most since tallying eight errors against Ohio Northern on March 7, 2015.

WashU, who is ranked No. 1 in the most recent NCAA Division III Midwest Regional rankings, opened the scoring in the first game in the bottom of the first inning as they took advantage an Webster error, a walk and stolen base to plate an unearned run off of junior pitcher Breelyn Craig (Victorville, Calif./Trinidad State). 

The Gorloks, though, got that run back in the top of the second on a one-out home run over the fence in left off the bat of freshman Sheyla Iniguez (Riverside, Calif./Bloomington). The homer by Iniguez was her second of the season.

WashU used two hits and three Gorlok errors in the third inning to push out to a 3-1 lead. 

Webster would plate a run in the top of the fifth to pull within 3-2. In the inning, junior centerfielder Abby Burroughs (Edwardsville, Ill./Triad) reached on a fielding error by WashU third baseman Taylor Arends, moved to third on a ground out by Craig and scored on an RBI single up the middle by freshman rightfielder Haley Kesler (Bell City, Mo./Scott County Central). 

The Bears broke the game open in the bottom of the sixth as they sent nine batters to the plate and scored six runs on five hits and four Webster errors to push its lead to 9-2. 

Webster would go down in order in the top of the seventh to seal WashU's win and extend WU's losing skid to two straight games. 

Craig (6-6), who was named this week's St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Softball Pitcher of the Week, pitched 5.1 innings and allowed eight hits and eight runs (three earned), while walking three and fanning five. 

Iniguez and Kesler had the only two hits for the Gorloks in the opener. 

WashU finished with 10 hits as Amy Walsh and Kirsten Drabek each had two hits in the win, while Walsh, Katie Gould and Arends each scored two runs in the game. 

Madison Denton (8-7) tossed five innings and allowed two hits and two runs, while walking one and striking out three. Holly Stoner pitched the final two innings and recorded three strikeouts to record her second save of the season.

Meanwhile, in the nightcap, Webster jumped in front 1-0 as Burroughs reached on a one-out double to left center and scored on an RBI single to left by junior catcher Darian Morlan (Duchesne, Utah/Trinidad State). The double by Burroughs was her sixth of the season and 24th of her career, which is tied for fourth most in school history and also was her 113th career hit, which is seventh on the school's all-time chart and she comes into the 2020 season needing 85 hits to become the school's all-time hits leader. Dana Vahey is the school's all-time leading hitter as she recorded 198 hits during her Hall of Fame career that spanned from 2006-09. 

The Bears would come back in the bottom of the second and plate two runs on two hits and one error to take a 2-1 lead. The two runs come home on a 2-run double to right center by Michaela Morhaus off of junior pitcher Kaitlyn Johnson (East Alton, Ill./Greenville University).

WashU's lead grew to 5-1 in the bottom of the third inning as they scored three runs on three hits and a Gorlok error. 

The Gorloks, though, would answer with three runs in the top of the fourth to drop WashU's lead to 5-4. In the inning, Iniguez led off with a double and after Burroughs walked, Kesler delivered an RBI single up the middle for WU's first run. Later in the inning, senior Brienna Sheperd (Central Point, Ore./College of the Redwoods) hit a run scoring double to right center and Craig would then bring home a run on her RBI single up the middle.

WashU added three more runs in the bottom of the fifth to take an 8-4 lead. In the inning, Nicole Hay brought home two runs on her homer to deep center and the Bears third run came home on an RBI single by Walsh off of freshman pitcher Arianna Arias (Pomona, Calif./Bishop Amat). Arias replaced Johnson in the circle with one out in the third inning. 

The Bears added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth on two singles, a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly to push its lead to 9-4.

In the seventh, senior Casey Cullinane (Simi Valley, Calif./College of the Redwoods) led off the inning with a single in her final collegiate at-bat. The next Gorlok hitter, though, Arias hit into a double play for the first two outs of the inning. Following the double play, Johnson would get hit by a pitch from Kendall Schwartz and moved to second on a single through the right side by freshman leftfielder Taylor Jackson (Calgary, Alberta/Bishop Grandin), before Iniguez lined out to right to end the game and close out Webster's season. 

Craig paced Webster's offense with two hits, while Jackson, Iniguez, Burroughs, Kesler, Sheperd and Morlan each had a hit in the nightcap. 

The Bears finished the nightcap with 13 hits, including Drabek going 3-for-3 at the plate, while Walsh, Morhaus and Mikaela Arredondo each had two hits in the win. 

Johnson (2-8) earned the loss in the circle for the Gorloks as she tossed 2.1 innings and allowed six hits and five runs (four earned), while walking one and fanning none. Arias pitched the final 3.2 innings and allowed seven hits and four runs, while walking three and striking out two. 

Schwartz (2-1) won the game for WashU as she tossed 3.2 innings and allowed four hits and no runs, while walking and striking out none.

Tuesday's game marked the final games as Gorloks for the team's three seniors - Sheperd, Cullinane and second baseman Chelsea Snyder (Mount Vernon, Mo./Fort Scott CC). Sheperd and Snyder started at third and second in both of Tuesday's games, while Cullinane pinch hit in the seventh inning of the nightcap.