WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — The Lawrence University baseball team put on an impressive offensive display as it romped to a nonconference doubleheader sweep of Crown College on Friday.
Lawrence won the opener 21-1 and took the nightcap 9-5.
In the first game, the Vikings (2-4) pounded out 15 hits, and both Matthew Holliday and Jake Gordon nearly tied school records.
Holliday went 3-for-5 with a homer and a double and drove in eight runs, one shy of Andrew Wong’s Lawrence game record. Jake Gordon went 4-for-5 with a double and triple, three runs batted in and five runs scored, also one shy of tying Sam Kossow’s school record.
Tim Kinsella went 2-for-4 and drove in a run, and Brandon Klar reached base in all four of his plate appearances with a single and three walks and scored four times.
Lawrence scored in every inning but the third. The Vikings tallied three runs in the first and stretched the lead to 7-1 after two innings. Gordon had a run-scoring double in the first, and both Gordon and Klar had RBI singles in the second.
Lawrence added three runs in both the fourth and fifth innings with Holliday clubbing a two-run homer in the fourth. The Vikings erupted in the sixth as Holliday had a two-run double and Gordon picked up a run-scoring triple.
Drew Doares went the distance for Lawrence to get the win. He allowed six hits, struck out five and walked one.
In the nightcap, Lawrence jumped out to an 8-1 lead after five innings and went on to the win.
Kinsella went 3-for-3 with a double and two RBIs, and Holliday was 3-for-4 and drove in a pair. Gordon and Davis Ogilvie both went 2-for-3 for the Vikings.
Lawrence was up 2-1 when the Vikings scored three times in the fourth on an RBI double from Gordon and run-scoring singles from both Kinsella and Kyle Duex.
Lawrence stretched the lead to 8-1 with three more runs in the fifth. Both Kinsella and Holliday had run-scoring singles in the inning.
Crown cut the lead to 8-5 with four runs in the sixth, but the Vikings tacked on an insurance run in the seventh.
Freshman Zach Rabideau went five-plus innings to pick up his first collegiate win. He allowed six hits, struck out three and walked three.