BELLEVILLE, Ill. – The Webster University softball team had two players named to the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) 1990's All-Decade Team that was announced on Tuesday by the league office.
Webster was one of six schools in the league to have at least two players named to the 28-member All-Decade 1990's Softball Team as MacMurray College and Maryville University each had seven overall selections, while Westminster (Mo.) College had five selections and Fontbonne University had three players selected. Webster and Blackburn each had two players tabbed, while Greenville and Principia had one player each selected.
To be named to the All-Decade Team, the selections were made using a system that awarded points based on All-Conference selections. In addition, any player receiving the top individual award during a season (Player of the Year or Defensive Player of the Year) earned a selection. Additionally, coaches were picked based on Coach of the Year accolades won during the decade.
During the decade, Webster only had a softball for the final years of the 1990's as the school began the sport in 1997 and in those three years, the Gorloks won the regular season SLIAC titles in both 1998 and 1999 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament both of those seasons. Along with winning two straight regular season titles and playing in two consecutive NCAA Tournaments, the Gorloks posted a 74-35 overall record and a 28-13 record in SLIAC play. Webster won a school record 38 games in 1999 and won 30 games in 1998. Over the final two years of the decade, Webster went 68-16 overall and 25-2 in the league play.
Here are Webster's two SLIAC 1990's All-Decade Softball Team selections.
Katie Maynard (1998-01) | C | Indianapolis, Ind. (Cathedral)
Maynard was a four-year letterwinner as a catcher for the Gorloks from 1998-01 and in her four years, she was a four-time All-SLIAC selection, including a three-time First-Team All-SLIAC honoree in 1998, 1999 and 2000. Along with being a four-time All-SLIAC selection, Maynard was named the SLIAC Co-Player of the Year in 1999 and is one of five Gorlok softball players in school history to earn All-SLIAC honors four times. In her career as a Gorlok, she hit .403 with 159 hits, scored 99 runs, hit 28 doubles, a school record 18 triples, 21 home runs and recorded 104 RBI in 153 career games in four years. Additionally, she walked 22 times, was 3-for-3 on stolen bases and struck out just 51 times in 395 career at-bats. In 1998, she hit .444 with 36 hits and 24 runs scored, while recording eight doubles, one triple, five home runs and 21 RBI and in her Co-Player of the Year season in 1999, she hit .398 with 43 hits, 24 runs, nine doubles, five triples, four home runs and 27 RBI. In addition to holding the school's career record for triples with 18, she is second in career fielding chances (758), second in career putouts (666), tied for second in career total bases (286), third in career slugging percentage (.724), fifth in career batting average (.403), fifth in career home runs (21), sixth in career hits (159), tied for sixth in career RBI (104), seventh in career games played (153), seventh in career games started (149), seventh in career doubles (28), eighth in career at-bats (395) and ninth in career runs scored (99). Her nine triples in 2000 are tied for most in a single season in school history, while her .909 slugging percentage in 2000 is second on the school's single season chart.
Jeanne (Zes) Gilbert (1998-2000) | P | St. Louis, Mo. (Aquinas-Mercy)
Zes Gilbert, who was the first Webster softball player inducted into the Webster Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012 and was also inducted into the SLIAC Hall of Fame in 2013, played two of her three years as a Gorlok in the decade as she lettered at Webster from 1998-00. In her three years at Webster, Zes Gilbert, who was a pitcher, was a three-time First-Team All-SLIAC selection and was named the SLIAC Player of the Year in 1998. As a pitcher, she went 48-11 with a 1.37 ERA and in 66 appearances and 61 starts, she tossed 48 complete games and 13 shutouts and recorded four saves. In 369 career innings, she allowed 288 hits, 119 runs and 72 earned runs, while striking out 253 and walking 69. In addition to her pitching, she was a career .314 hitter as she recorded 69 hits, scored 53 runs, hit four doubles, nine triples, three home runs and 48 RBI. She also was 10-for-11 on stolen bases and drew 13 walks. Holds the school's career record for saves with four and is second in career wins (48), second in career starts (61), second in career complete games (48), second in career shutouts (13), third in career ERA (1.37), third in career innings pitched (369), third in career strikeouts (253), fourth in career appearances (66), and 10th in career triples with nine. During her Player of the Year season in 1998, she went 14-2 with a 1.11 ERA with 80 strikeouts and 22 walks in 101 innings and 19 appearances. At the plate that season, she hit .337 with 30 hits, 25 runs scored, four triples, one double, one home run and 23 RBI. She had 80 or more strikeouts in all three seasons and won at least 14 games each season, including 18 wins in 1999, which is fifth on the school's single season chart.
Here is the complete SLIAC 1990's All-Decade Softball Team:
Coach Sandi Creeglow, MacMurray
Coach Laura Small, Fontbonne
Coach Lonnie Folks, Maryville
Katie Aulbur, Maryville
Sue Bateman, Maryville
Joanna Beckstrom, Principia
Holly Bryant, Westminster
Joy Davis, MacMurray
Cathy Donley, Fontbonne
Kelly Edgar, Maryville
Carol Fletcher, MacMurray
Kelly Govero, Maryville
Stephanie Holt, Blackburn
Brenda Kroll, Westminster
Beth Lunte, Greenville
Katie Maynard, Webster
Robyn McArthur, Westminster
Jennifer Murphy, MacMurray
Kori Nance, Westminster
Diana Pinkley, Fontbonne
Olivia Reichert, Maryville
Erika Thompson, MacMurray
Holly Wachtel, MacMurray
Chris Warren, MacMurray
Jaime Wickers, Maryville
Lydia Windmiller, Westminster
Dianne Woolfolk, Blackburn
Jeanne Zes, Webster
