The Lawrence University men’s basketball team hits the road again this week to face two tough opponents. The Vikings travel to St. Norbert College on Wednesday for a 7:30 p.m. game. Lawrence then travels to Carroll for a 4 p.m. game on Saturday.
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Big third period helps Raiders down Lawrence
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — The Milwaukee School of Engineering scored early and late in the third period and posted a 4-2 Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association victory over Lawrence University on Saturday at the Kern Center.
Jordan Keizer’s unassisted goal just 1:06 into the third period broke a 2-2 tie. Bradley Tierney scored with only 1:42 left in the game to seal the victory for the Raiders (12-5-0, 9-3-0 MCHA).
Connor Toomey made 41 saves to earn the win for MSOE. Peter Emery stopped 23 shots for Lawrence (5-9-3, 4-5-3), which had a 43-27 edge in shots.
Lawrence got on the board first on Derek Brickan’s unassisted goal at the 14:37 mark of the opening period. The Raiders tied it on Kevin Medina’s goal early in the second period.
Lawrence grabbed a 2-1 lead on Reijo Wahlin’s first goal of the season at the 16:08 mark of the second period. MSOE tied the game again when Todd Krupa scored a power-play goal at 18:22 of the second.
Vikings shoot down Knox
GALESBURG, Ill. — The Lawrence University men’s basketball team came out firing on Friday night and rolled to a 92-83 Midwest Conference victory over Knox College.
Chris Siebert paced Lawrence (5-8, 4-5 MWC) and all scorers with 23 points. Davis DeWolfe added 21 points and a game-high nine rebounds for the Vikings. Tyler Crisman had 19 points and handed out a game-high nine assists, and Tyler Mazur chipped in with 11 points.
Tanner Carlson led Knox (3-12, 2-8) with 22 points.
Lawrence hit eight of its first 11 shots from the floor to quickly build 22-7 lead just eight minutes into the contest. The Vikings built that lead to as many as 21 points in the first half. The Vikings capped the first half on Mazur’s 3-pointer to take a 42-22 lead at the half.
Knox cut the lead back to 15 points at 54-39 early in the second half, but Lawrence countered with a 13-4 run. Crisman hit two 3-pointers in that outburst and DeWolfe added five points to give Lawrence a 67-43 lead with 11:21 remaining.
Knox pecked away at the lead and cut it to 84-75 with 1:03 left, but the Vikings hit eight of their next 10 free throws to seal the victory.
Lawrence now travels to Grinnell College for a game on Saturday afternoon.
MSOE hangs on to edge Lawrence
The 14th-ranked Milwaukee School of Engineering hung on for a 3-2 Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association victory over Lawrence University on Friday night at the Appleton Family Ice Center.
MSOE (11-5-0, 8-3-0 MCHA) built a 3-1 lead and withstood a third-period charge by the Vikings (5-8-3, 4-4-3).
Connor Toomey stopped 36 shots to pick up the win for MSOE. Peter Emery made 31 saves for the Vikings.
Josh Keizer got the Raiders on the board just nine seconds into the opening period. Lawrence finally tied it on Huck Saunders’ second goal of the season at the 1:43 mark of the second period.
West Bauman gave MSOE a 2-1 edge on his goal at the 9:02 mark of the second. The Raiders made it 3-1 on Bradley Tierney’s power-play goal with just 1:35 remaining in the second period.
Lawrence trimmed the lead to 3-2 on Phil Buschbacher’s goal at the 7:45 mark of the third. Lawrence did pull the goaltender for the final 30 seconds of the contest but could not get the equalizer.
The teams wrap up the series Saturday night in Milwaukee.
Lawrence at Knox/Grinnell preview
The Lawrence University men’s basketball team goes on the road this weekend to face Knox College and Grinnell College. The Vikings play at Knox on Friday night before traveling to Grinnell for a Saturday afternoon contest.
Inside LU Athletics: Hughes, Raymond real dynamic duo
When these guys started playing hockey together, Bill Clinton was President, Google didn’t exist and the Green Bay Packers had just won Super Bowl XXXI.
Lawrence University hockey stars Matt Hughes and Jameson Raymond have been joined at the hip for 15 years. They go together like Martin and Lewis or Montana and Rice, but they would likely prefer the metaphor of Gretzy and Kurri.
“We were nine years old and just trying out for the same team and made it,” Raymond said of his best friend, Hughes.
That was back in 1997 and they began playing mite hockey for the Flint Icelanders. Raymond was a defenseman from Flint, Mich., and Hughes was a forward from Goodrich, just 15 minutes away. They have spent every hockey season since 1997 playing for the same team, and Raymond and Hughes are in their final season as seniors at Lawrence.
“It’s kind of scary how long I’ve know him,” Hughes said of Raymond.
Not only did these guys grow up playing hockey together, they were both standout baseball players and played that sport together until high school. Both young men said they didn’t make a conscious decision to continue playing together until high school.
“We had to make a decision to stay in Flint to play hockey or go to Detroit,” Raymond said. “We decided we were going to play in Detroit because our coach in Flint got the head coaching job at Belle Tire (a bantam team).”
They stayed together from Belle Tire to Copuware to the Bozeman (Mont.) Ice Dogs to the Traverse City (Mich.) North Stars. Then came the decision of where to attend college.
“With college, we wanted to do what was best for ourselves. It just kind of worked out this way,” Raymond said. “I had interest from a lot of schools out East, but I didn’t want to go out East.”
Hughes said of the college choice, “We really didn’t know. I knew Reg (Raymond’s nickname) was talking to some bigger schools, but it worked out well. It was just a bonus that both of us could go (to college) together.”
Raymond and Hughes have been fixtures in the Lawrence lineup since day one. They will both play in their 100th game this weekend when the Vikings have a home-and-home series with MSOE.
Through hockey and baseball, sleepovers when they were just kids, long drives to practice and endless road trips, they have forged a friendship that’s as strong as a piece of Detroit iron.
“I consider Matt my best friend, and I think he would say the same. We do everything together, hunt, fish,” Raymond said. “It’s kind of that grumpy old men situation. It honestly is. We do a lot of things together because we like hanging out with each other.”
Hughes said all those years spent together has solidified the friendship and led to an unspoken bond in the ice.
“When I’m on the ice with him, it makes it an easy game,” Hughes said of Raymond. “We don’t have to say too much to each other to figure it out. We’ve gotten each other quite a few points because of that. We know where each other are going to be. That’s simplifies the game and makes it a lot easier for both of us.”
With 41 goals and 78 points, Hughes is one of the top scorers in Lawrence history. Raymond has piled up 47 assists and 64 to become one of the top scoring defenseman the school has ever seen.
“Jameson is a special player. He sees the ice very well in all situations. He just has a knack for being in the way as a defender and finding open ice on offense,” Lawrence coach Mike Szkodzinski said.
“Matt’s work ethic is tremendous. He definitely gets the most out of his abilities. There has not been a single day in the past four years when I can remember questioning whether or not Matt Hughes was giving us everything he had to give.”
While the clock is winding down on their careers at Lawrence, they are wondering whether this will be the last time they put on the same sweater for a hockey club.
“That will definitely be strange,” Hughes said of not playing with Raymond. “I told him that if he makes a team next year or I make a team next year, it will have to be a package deal.”
History has proven they wouldn’t have it any other way.
Gaby goes long
Lawrence track and field assistant coach Jake Gabrilska was a winner this past weekend when the Vikings opened the indoor season at UW-Stevens Point. Competing as an alumnus, Gabrilska posted a winning toss of 16.53 meters in the 35-pound weight throw. That was more than a meter longer than second-place finisher Adam Sellner of Ripon College.
Editor’s Note: Inside LU Athletics is a notes package written by Lawrence University Sports Information Director Joe Vanden Acker. It will feature teams and individual players, recap weekly awards or highlights and take a look at what’s ahead for the Vikings.
Lawrence vs. MSOE series preview
The Lawrence University hockey team takes on the No. 14 Milwaukee School of Engineering in a home-and-home Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association series this weekend. Lawrence hosts the Raiders at 7 p.m. on Friday and then travels to Milwaukee for a game Saturday evening.
DeWolfe powers Vikings over Monmouth
Davis DeWolfe posted a double-double with 17 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Lawrence University men’s basketball team to a 67-63 Midwest Conference victory over Monmouth College on Saturday at Alexander Gymnasium.
DeWolfe, a sophomore center, stepped out and hit 3 of 4 from 3-point range and finished 6 of 12 from the floor.
Tyler Crisman added 16 points and four assists for Lawrence (4-8, 3-5 MWC), and Conor Klusendorf had an outstanding all-around game with 14 points, five rebounds, three blocks and three steals.
Kenny Foster had a double-double for the Scots (4-9, 2-6) with 25 points and 10 rebounds.
Lawrence led by as many as nine points in the first half but neither team was able to pull away. The lead changed five times, and the score was tied five times.
The Vikings finally got some breathing room when they scored eight consecutive points, with Crisman and Max Burgess both hitting 3-pointers and Crisman adding a layup, for a 53-44 lead with 6:42 left.
Monmouth bounced back and cut the lead to two, the last time on a pair of free throws from Foster, with 2:48 remaining. Crisman countered with a driving layup to put the Vikings up 60-56.
The teams then traded misses before Chris Siebert was fouled with 50 seconds left. He hit a pair of free throws to put the Vikings up 62-56. Foster’s layup with 40 seconds left trimmed the lead back to 62-58, but the Vikings sealed the win from the foul line from that point.
After DeWolfe converted 1 of 2 from the foul line, Siebert hit four consecutive free throws in the final 19 seconds to secure the victory. Siebert, who had a game-high seven assists, went 6-for-6 from the line in the final 50 seconds.
Lawrence returns to action on Jan. 20 when it travels to Knox College.
Adrian holds off Vikings
ADRIAN, Mich. — The No. 8 Adrian College hockey team hung on for a 3-2 Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association victory over Lawrence University on Friday night at Arrington Ice Arena.
The Bulldogs pulled out to a 3-0 lead after two periods, but Lawrence scored twice on the power play in the third period. Lawrence pulled its goaltender for the final 44 seconds but could not get the equalizer.
Lawrence (5-6-3, 4-2-3 MCHA) enjoyed a 38-25 advantage in shots. Adrian (10-4-0, 8-1-0) got a goal and an assist from Jordan Principalli.
Adrian grabbed the lead midway through the first period when Kevin Balas scored at the 9:11. The Bulldogds made it 2-0 just 1:01 into the second period when Principalli scored. Adrian, which was 1-for-5 on the man-advantage, got a power-play goal from Shelby Gray at the 10:29 mark of the second to go up 3-0.
Lawrence went on the power play after Grant Telfer was sent off for boarding at the 8:33 mark of the third. Erik Soderlund scored on the power play off assists from Jameson Raymond and Phil Bushbacher at the 10:08 to trim the lead to 3-1.
Adrian’s Zach Wilson took a slashing penalty just over a minute later and Lawrence cashed in again. Matt Hughes scored on the power play with assists from Raymond and William Thoren at the 12:07 mark to make it 3-2.
The Vikings finished 2-for-8 on the power play.
The team skated at even strength for the rest of the game, and Lawrence pulled goaltender Peter Emery with 44 seconds left but couldn’t score again.
Emery finished the game with 22 saves for the Vikings. Scott Shackell recorded 36 saves for the Bulldogs.
The teams wrap up the series on Saturday afternoon.
Grinnell gets past Lawrence
The Grinnell College men’s basketball team pulled away late in the first half and withstood a second-half rally by Lawrence University to post a 103-94 Midwest Conference victory Friday night at Alexander Gymnasium.
Matt Chalupa paced Grinnell (11-0, 7-0 MWC) with 19 points. Griffin Lentsch and Jesse Ney added 15 points apiece for the Pioneers. Lentsch, the nation’s leading scorer, was limited to half of his 30-point average.
Tyler Crisman and Chris Siebert scored 23 points apiece for Lawrence (3-8, 2-5). Siebert also handed out 13 assists, just two shy of tying Lawrence’s school record of 15, which is held by current head coach Joel DePagter.
Conor Klusendorf added 20 points and a game-high nine rebounds for the Vikings. Klusendorf, who leads the MWC in blocked shots, picked up three blocks on the evening. Andrew Kline chipped in with a career-high 10 points for the Vikings.
Grinnell pulled away in the final six minutes of the first half. Three consecutive points by Davis DeWolfe trimmed Grinnell’s lead to 33-32, but the Pioneers went on a 30-13 run over the the final 6:37 of the half. Grinnell led 63-45 at the half.
Lawrence came out strong in the second half and outscored the Pioneers 12-4 to start the half. Siebert and Kline scored four points apiece in the run that cut Grinnell’s lead to 67-57 with 16:00 left.
Grinnell then got 3-pointers from Evan Johnson, Patrick Maher, Xander Strek and Chalupa to build the lead back to 79-61. Lawrence didn’t cut the lead back to 10 points until the final minute and didn’t get closer than nine points.
The Vikings return to action on Saturday when they host Monmouth College.