WEBSTER GROVES – Running through Friday, June 18, Webster Athletics will unveil its Gorlok Award winners for the 2020-21 school year each day leading to announcing Webster Athletics Department Award winners on Saturday, June 19.
 
This is the third consecutive year that Webster Athletics has awarded the 10 ESPY-styled awards that were created by the Webster Athletics Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Once again, those awards were nominated and voted on my Webster's coaches and athletic department staff members.
 
After unveiling the winners of the best action and funniest action photo on Monday, today's two Gorlok Award winners being recognized are the Record Breaking Performance and Sixth Man of the Year from the 2020-21 school year.
 
The record breaking performance of the year goes to both the men's golf team and senior All-American golfer Will Hocker (Grapevine, Texas/University of Oklahoma). At the 2021 NCAA Division III Men's Golf National Championship at Oglebay Resort in Wheeling, W.Va., on May 11-14, the Gorloks made history as they recorded a school record team finish and Hocker became the school's first-ever NCAA Division III Individual National Champion by winning medalist honors at the Division III National Championships.
 
At the Division III National Championships, Webster finished in a tie for 15th place as they shot a four-round team total of 1,218 for 72 holes to finish tied with St. John's (Minn.). The tie for 15th place bettered Webster's previous best finish in the championships of 17th place in 2017. At this year's D-III Championships, Webster carded rounds of 299, 303, 311 and 305 to make the cut for just the second time in the program's history. The 1,218 is Webster's lowest team score in a 72-hole event in the program's history as it bested the old mark of 1,256 at the 2017 championships held at the Mission Inn Resort in Howey-In-The-Hills, Fla.
 
While Webster's golf team recorded a program-best finish at the Division III National Championships, Hocker won medalist honors to claim the individual national title after shooting a 2-over par score of 285 for 72 holes. He won the national title by two shots over Christopher Newport's Robb Kinder and Methodist's Cooper Hrabak, who each shot 4-over par scored of 287 for 72 holes. Hocker closed the event with an even-par 71 in the final round and also shot rounds of 1-under 69 in the first round, a 1-over 72 in the second round and a 2-over 73 in the third round. Hocker would play the final five holes of the championship at 4-under par as he scored an eagle on the par-5 No. 5 hole and then shot birdies on the sixth and seventh holes and then scored pars on the final two holes to win medalist honors.
 
Along with the men's golf team and Hocker, the other finalists for the record breaking performance this year was fifth-year baseball All-American pitcher Matt Mulhearn (Chicago Heights, Ill./Marian Catholic) and junior women's basketball forward Addison Beussink (Jackson, Mo./Saxony Lutheran).
 
Mulhearn's record breaking performance came against Blackburn on March 21 as the right-hander set a new school career mark for strikeouts as he recorded 10 strikeouts in the game that Webster won 16-2. In his six-year Webster career, Mulhearn has recorded 364 strikeouts, which bettered the old mark of 257 set by Isaac Behme from 2012-15. The 364 strikeouts are second-most in a career in the history of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Along with way during the 2021 season, Mulhearn was named to the D3Baseball.com Team of the Week a school record four times and was also named the SLIAC Pitcher of the Year, the D3Baseball.com and ABCA/Rawlings Central Region Pitcher of the Year and the D3Baseball.com National Pitcher of the Year.
 
Beussink's record breaking performance came against Fontbonne on March 27 at Grant Gymnasium. In that game against the Griffins, Beussink scored a single game school record 35 points that bettered the old school mark of 33, which was set four times in school history with the most recent occurrence coming by Danielle Tiller at Westminster on Jan. 9, 2007. Against Fontbonne, Beussink, who was named a First-Team All-SLIAC selection, scored 24 of her 35 points in the first half to give Webster a 60-33 halftime lead. She set the single game scoring mark on two made free throws with 3:33 left in the game after tying the mark on a lay-up nearly three minutes into the fourth quarter. Along with her 35 points, Beussink also pulled down 14 rebounds for her fourth double-double of the season.
 
Meanwhile, the Sixth Man of the Year was won by men's soccer freshman forward/midfielder Mark Moore (Hillsboro, Mo./Hillsboro). Moore, who was named the MVP of the SLIAC Men's Soccer Tournament and was also a member of the men's basketball team, played in 12 games and made two starts and was second on the team in goals with seven and led the team in assists with eight for a total of 22 points, which was tied for the team lead. In addition, he played a total of 507 minutes and led the team in shots with 44 and put 21 of those shots on goal. Over the final four games of the season, Moore scored four goals and had five assists and scored a goal in all four games, including the first goal in Webster's 2-1 win over Westminster in the 2020-21 SLIAC Tournament final. In basketball, Moore played in nine of Webster's 10 games and averaged 6.8 points, 1.8 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game and shot 40 percent from the field and 86 percent from the free throw line and was second on the team with 11 made 3-pointers.
 
"Mark battled through playing a full basketball season and a soccer season at the same time," Webster men's soccer coach Mike Siener said. "He came off the bench for us and played as much as he give on a nightly basis and by the end of the season, he was tied for the conference lead in overall points and played half the minutes that his teammate he tied with had."
 
Along with Moore, the other finalists for the Sixth Man of the Year Award were women's basketball senior guard Kiara Rhines (Glendale, Ariz./Ironwood), women's track and field sophomore runner Micah Barnes (O'Fallon, Mo./Fort Zumwalt West) and sophomore men's golfer Cody Surma (Lexington, Ill./University High School).
  
Here is the schedule for the other awards this week that will be announced:
 
Monday (June 14) – Best Action photo (Lexi Young and Raven Ritrovato – Competitive Cheerleading) and Funniest Action photo (Ben Aziz – Men's Soccer)
 
Today (June 15) – Best Record Setting Performance and Sixth Man of the Year
 
Wednesday (June 16) – Breakthrough Athlete of the Year and Best Teammate
 
Thursday (June 17) – Best Play of the Year and Best Win of the Year
 
Friday (June 18) – Golden Gorlok Award and Most Well-Rounded Team

On Saturday (June 19), the department's five major awards – Inspiration, Scholar Athlete, Chancellor's Award and the Outstanding Male and Female Athletes of the Year will be announced, along a list of the 2020-21 senior student-athletes.