TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology baseball team dropped their mid-week contest with Webster 17-7 on Wednesday evening at Art Nehf Field.

Webster got on the board early in the second inning with two runs, but Rose-Hulman quickly answered with two of their own on a solo home run from Dalton Busboom, his fourth of the season, and a two-out RBI single by Kade Kline.

The Gorloks scored three more in the third, but the Fightin' Engineers hung around with an RBI single by Busboom to stay in the ball game before Adam Hill came in and got a bases loaded strikeout to end the Rose-Hulman threat.

Hill would shut the Fightin' Engineers down over the next 3 innings, and Webster stretched out their lead to 16-3 in the seventh inning.

Rose-Hulman scored four runs in the bottom of the eighth thanks to a bases loaded walk for Jonathan Oliger, an RBI single from Garrett Loyed, and a two-run single for Jamie Baum in her first career collegiate at bat. With that single, Baum became the first female to appear in a game for the Rose-Hulman baseball team in the vast 135 year history of Rose-Hulman.

Webster would add one more in the ninth and hold on for the 17-7 victory on Wednesday night.

Busboom was the lone Fightin' Engineer with multiple hits, and Busboom and Baum were the only two with multiple RBIs in the loss. Baum and Alex Freel each recorded their first career collegiate hits in the game.

The Fightin' Engineers will return to action on Saturday afternoon as they host the Anderson Ravens in the first of two games of a three game series at 1 PM and 4 PM.