CLERMONT, Fla. — The Lawrence University softball team rallied from a four-run deficit Friday to post a 7-6 nonconference win in eight innings over the State University of New York-Fredonia.
Rookie Maddie MacLean picked up her first collegiate victory in her first start for Lawrence (1-1). She allowed eight hits, struck out two and walked two.
MacLean also went 3-for-4 with a homer and drove in a pair of runs, and shortstop Meg Krautsch went 3-for-5 with a homer and drove in three runs for the Vikings. Savanna Marsicek and Anna Wawiorka both added a pair of hits for Lawrence.
Lawrence trailed 4-0 heading to the fifth, but the Vikings scored three times to get right back in the game. Marsicek started the inning with a double, and Krautsch followed with a double to cut the lead to 4-1. After an out, MacLean blasted a two-run homer to trim the lead to 4-3.
Lawrence then grabbed a 5-4 lead with a pair of runs in the top of the seventh. Marsicek started the inning with a walk, and Krautsch followed with a two-run homer to put the Vikings ahead.
Fredonia (0-3) scratched out an unearned run off MacLean in the bottom of the seventh to tie it at 5-5.
Following the international tiebreaker rule in the eighth, the Vikings had Katie Schumacher at second to start the inning. Sofie Pedersen reached on a sacrifice bunt and an error put runners at the corners. The Blue Devils then got a lineout and cut Schumacher down at home trying to score. Wawiorka followed with a double to score Pedersen, and Wawiorka scored after a wild pitch, walk and an error to put the Vikings up 7-5.
The Blue Devils got a run-scoring double in the bottom of the eighth to trim the lead to 7-6, but MacLean retired the next three hitters to end it.