WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — The Lawrence University baseball team rallied for a win in game one Thursday and then powered its way to a victory in the nightcap to sweep a nonconference doubleheader from Keuka College.
Lawrence won the opener 5-3 and took the nightcap 14-6.
In the first game, Travis Weber went 2-for-4 and drove in three runs to pace Lawrence (4-6). Nolan Spencer, Dan Rothbauer and Matt Holliday all had two hits for the Vikings.
Zach Rabideau pitched the final two innings and picked up the win for Lawrence. Cullen Ellis made the start and allowed four hits and three runs over five innings.
The Vikings trailed 3-0 before getting two runs in the top of the fifth. Dante Reese and Spencer reached to start the inning and both scored on Weber’s two-run single to cut the lead to 3-2.
Lawrence tied it at 3-3 in the sixth when Anthony Ortiz walked and came around to score on Spencer’s triple.
The Vikings grabbed the lead in the seventh with four consecutive hits to start the inning. Rothbauer and Holliday started the inning with singles, and Weber and Andrew Lauber followed with run-scoring singles to put the Vikings up 5-3.
Rabideau worked around a walk and a hit batsman in the seventh to secure the win.
In the nightcap, Lawrence pounded out 22 hits in the nine-inning contest.
Spencer, Weber, Lauber, Ortiz and Carl Olsen all collected three hits for the Vikings. Rabideau drove in three runs, and Matt Holliday, Spencer, Lauber and Olsen all drove in a pair.
Chris Shaw allowed four hits over six innings to pick up his second win of the season. He struck out four and walked three.
Keuka (3-2) led 1-0 heading to the bottom of the second when the Vikings exploded for six runs. The big blow in the inning was Rabideau’s two-run double.
The Vikings added two more runs in the third, with Ortiz picking up a run-scoring triple, to push the lead to 8-3.
Holliday hit his first home run of the season, a two-run blast, to highlight a five-run fifth inning that gave Lawrence a 13-3 lead. Keuka picked up three runs in the sixth, but the Vikings added an insurance run in the seventh.