APPLETON, Wis. — The Lawrence University baseball team posted a walk-off win in the opener and then won a slugfest in the nightcap to sweep a nonconference doubleheader from Knox College on Saturday.
Lawrence won the first game 5-4 and took the second game 17-12 at Whiting Field.
In the opener, Knox scored twice in the top of the eighth to tie the game at 4-4. Davis Ogilvie came on in relief, struck out one batter in the eighth and then struck out the side in the ninth.
A walk and a fielder’s choice put Brandon Klar at first in the bottom of the ninth for the Vikings. After a strikeout, Zach Rabideau delivered a double to score Klar and give Lawrence the win.
Ogilvie picked up the win to improve to 2-2 on the season and went 3-for-4 and drove in a run.
Klar went 2-for-4 with a homer, scored four of Lawrence’s five runs and drove in a run. Luke Zablocki also had a pair of hits and an RBI for Lawrence.
In the nightcap, Lawrence rallied from an early four-run deficit and then rallied from a two-run deficit in the seventh to get the win.
Travis Weber went 4-for-5 with three runs scored and two runs batted in and was a homer short of the cycle. Anthony Ortiz, Davis Ogilvie and Matthew Holliday all had two hits for the Vikings.
Ortiz and Ogilvie both belted three-run homers, and Holliday picked up his 15th double on the season to break Andrew Wong’s school record of 14.
Rabideau went 2.2 innings or relief to pick up his third win of the season. Kelton Jenkins pitched the final 1.1 innings to earn his fourth save of the season, which ties the school’s season record Jim Petran set in 1979.
The Vikings trailed 5-1 and then scored five runs, all unearned, in the bottom of the third. The big hit in the inning was Ortiz’s three-run blast. Lawrence then took a 9-6 lead in the fourth with Weber delivering a run-scoring triple.
After giving up three runs in the sixth and two more in the seventh, the Vikings were down 11-6. Lawrence then scored six times in the seventh, with Holliday belting a two-run double and Ogilvie smacking a three-run homer for a 15-11 lead.
Lawrence added two more insurance runs in the eighth with the help of two doubles and two Knox errors. Jenkins then worked a 1-2-3 ninth for the save.