Vikings pounce on Buffalo State

CLERMONT, Fla. — The Lawrence University softball team scored four times in the first inning and rolled to a 9-2 nonconference victory over Buffalo State University on Saturday.

Amanda Jaskolski, Savanna Marsicek and Anna Wawiorka all had two hits to pace Lawrence’s 10-hit attack. Jaskolski had a triple and drove in a pair, and Marsicek doubled and drove in two runs. Wawiorka scored three times and drove in a run.

Liz Barthels went the distance and picked up the win for Lawrence (2-1). She allowed four hits, struck out one and walked one.

Lawrence grabbed a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first with Jaskolski belting a two-run triple and Taylor Dodson adding a run-scoring single. The Vikings pushed the lead to 6-0 with a pair of runs in the third on Marsicek’s two-run double.

The Bengals (2-3) cut the lead to 6-2 with single runs in the fourth and fifth, but Lawrence struck back in its half of the fifth.

The Vikings scored three times in the bottom half of the fifth with some help from the Bengals. Buffalo State issued a pair of walks and committed two errors in the inning to go with Wawiorka’s RBI single as Lawrence grabbed a 9-2 advantage.

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