CLERMONT, Fla. — The Lawrence University softball team got a solid pitching performance from Liz Barthels and another homer from Amanda Jaskolski en route to an 8-2 nonconference win over Thomas College on Tuesday.
Barthels allowed only four hits over seven innings while striking out four and walking none to pick up her third win of the season. Jaskolski blasted her third homer, a two-run shot, of the season to power Lawrence (4-3).
Anna Wawiorka, Taylor Dodson and Tierney Duffy all went 2-for-3 and all three players drove in two runs for the Vikings.
Lawrence grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first on Dodson’s two-run double. The Vikings were up 2-1 when Jaskolski smacked a two-run homer in the bottom of the third to give Lawrence a 4-1 edge.
Thomas (0-2) got a run back in the top of the fourth to trim the margin to 4-2, but the Vikings rallied in the bottom half of the inning. Lawrence loaded the bases on two walks and an error, and Duffy followed with a two-run single to push the lead to 6-2.
Lawrence then tacked on two more runs in the sixth on Wawiorka’s two-run single.
Taylor Johnson allowed six hits and seven runs over 5.1 innings and took the loss for the Terriers.