SAUGET, Ill. - Webster University Baseball used 6.2 innings of strong starting pitching from second-year freshman Jordan Smevoll (Dyer, Ind./Marian Catholic) and an offense that scored three runs in both the second and fourth innings en route to posting a 7-1 win over No. 2 ranked Washington University in St. Louis in the second game of Sunday's doubleheader at GCS Credit Union Ballpark. 

With the win, the No. 4 ranked Gorloks improved to 19-5 overall, while WashU fell from the ranks of the unbeaten as the Bears are now 17-1 on the season.

The Bears won Sunday's first game of the doubleheader thanks to a 2-run homer in the top of the ninth by Caleb Durbin off of fifth-year senior All-American pitcher Matt Mulhearn (Chicago Heights, Ill./Marian Catholic). 

In Sunday's second game of the doubleheader, the Gorloks recorded seven hits and drew seven walks from seven different WashU pitchers in snapping a two-game losing skid to the Bears. The seven runs scored by Webster were the most allowed in a game by the Bears this season. 

While its offense had a hand in the win, Webster also got a strong pitching from Smevoll as he pitched a season high 6.2 innings and allowed just four hits and one run, while walking one and striking out four to move to 5-0 on the season. Freshman Alek Elges (Littleton, Colo./J.K. Mullen) pitched the final 2.1 innings and allowed one hit and no runs, while striking out four. 

WashU got on the scoreboard first in the second game as they used a one-out home run over the wall in straight away center off the bat of Bo Anderson. The homer was the third of the season for Anderson and its second of the doubleheader. 

The Gorloks, though, would respond in the bottom of the second as they eight hitters to the plate and used three hits, two hit batsmen and a sacrifice fly to plate three runs and take a 3-1 lead. In the inning, fifth-year senior All-American first baseman Kyler Kent (Pottsboro, Texas/Pottsboro) led off with a single and would score when the next hitter, fifth-year senior designated hitter A.J. Smith (DuQuoin, Ill./DuQuoin) recorded a triple to right to score Kent and tie the game. The Gorloks would eventually load the bases on a hits batsman and walk and would score in second run when fifth-year senior centerfielder Aron Hopp (Lincoln, Ill./Lincoln College) hit a sacrifice fly to right to give Webster a 2-1 lead. Fourth-year junior rightfiedler Adam Lovell (Lafayette, Ind./Saint Joseph's College) then delivered an RBI single to left to plate the third run, 

Webster would score three more runs in the fourth as they drew three walks with two outs to load the bases that chased Austin Sachen from the game. Sachen was the third of seven WashU pitchers in the game. Kent would greet the next WashU pitcher, Joseph Hettinger, with a ground-rule double to center to plate two runs and give Webster a 5-1 lead. The next hitter, Smith, followed with an RBI single to center to give the Gorloks a 6-1 lead. 

In the seventh, Webster added its seventh and final run as third-year sophomore second baseman Mitch Daniels (Columbia, Ill./Columbia) reached on a one-out single to center and then he would steal both second and third and then score when fourth-year junior shortstop Matt Staker (El Cajon, Calif./Saint Augustine) laid down a bunt down the first base line that allowed Daniels to score from third. 

Fourth-year junior All-American third baseman Ben Swords (Freeport, Ill./Freeport) would reach on a two-out double in the eighth off of Clayton Miller, the seventh Bear pitcher, but Swords would be stranded at second after Miller ended the inning with a strikeout of Kent.

Elges would then retire WashU in order in the ninth, including recording two strikeouts to seal the win. 

Kent and Smith each had two hits and combined for four RBI and two runs scored in the second game of the doubleheader. 

Ty Dalinghaus had two of WashU's five hits in the game. 

Troy Bauer (3-1) took the loss on the mound for the Bears as he started the game and lasted only one-plus innings as he allowed two hits and three runs, while walking one and striking out all three batters he faced in the first inning. 

In the second game, the teams combined to leave 15 runners on base ad Webster stranded nine and WashU left six. 

The Gorloks will return to action this coming weekend as they return to St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action as they travel to Greenville, Ill., for a four-game series at Greenville University. The series begins with a doubleheader on Friday, April 16 beginning at 4 p.m., before concluding the series with another doubleheader on Saturday, April 17 beginning at 6 p.m.