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Cornell fights off scrappy Vikings

Taylor Dicus posted a double-double with 16 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Cornell College women’s basketball team to a 68-54 Midwest Conference victory over a scrappy Lawrence University squad on Saturday at Alexander Gymnasium.

Rikki Mulloy scored a team-high 19 points for Cornell (7-0, 3-0 MWC), which remains unbeaten this season.

Alex Deshler scored a season-high 21 points to pace the Vikings (1-6, 0-5). Deshler hit 8 of 13 shots from the floor, including 3 of 5 from 3-point range. Amber Lisowe added 18 points, and Kaite Schumacher pulled down a team-best eight rebounds.

With its superior size, Cornell flexed its muscle down low with 30 points in the paint and a 47-31 rebounding advantage.

Lawrence hung with the powerful Rams deep into the first half. The Vikings led 8-7 early, and Cornell was unable to pull away. After Patsy Kealey’s jumper cut Cornell’s lead to 20-17 with 5:31 left in the first half, Cornell went on a 10-2 to finish the half. The Rams led 30-19 at the break.

Early in the second half, Cornell went on a 17-2 run, capped by Dicus’ short jumper, to pull out to a 49-26 lead with 11:50 remaining. The Vikings battled back with an 8-0 run as Lisowe hit back-to-back 3-pointers and Aubrey Lawlor made a pair of free throws to trim Cornell’s lead to 52-38 with 7:45 left.

Cornell got a three-point play from Dicus to stop the momentum, and Lawrence didn’t get closer than 14 points the rest of the way.

Lawrence returns to action on Tuesday when it travels to Finlandia University for a nonconference game.

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Gusties hang on for 4-3 win over Lawrence

ST. PETER, Minn. — The Gustavus Adolphus College hockey team held on for a 4-3 nonconference victory over Lawrence University on Friday night at Don Roberts Rink.

Gustavus (7-5-1)  led 2-0 after the first period, but Lawrence (4-7-0) battled back in the second. Renato Engler scored for the Vikings at the 11:00 mark to cut the lead to 2-1.

The Gusties then got power-play goals from Adam Smyth and Tyler Lapic to push out to a 4-1 advantage. Gustavus went 3-for-5 on the power play. Smyth finished with a hat trick for the Gusties.

Lawrence trimmed the lead back to 4-2 on Brad Scurfield’s ninth goal of the season with just two seconds left in the second period. Lawrence’s Phil Bushbacher slashed the margin to 4-3 with his goal at the 8:38 mark of the third, but that’s as close as the Vikings would get.

Tyler Venne made 13 saves to get the win for Gustavus. Peter Emery got the start and made 19 saves for Lawrence before being relieved by Michael Baldino late in the second period. Baldino finished with eight saves.

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Flack leads Lawrence swimmers in battle with Titans

OSHKOSH, Wis. — Emily Flack won a pair of events on Friday night as the Lawrence University swim teams took on UW-Oshkosh in a dual meet at Albee Hall.

Oshkosh won the women’s competition 121-84, and the Titans also came out on top in the men’s meet by a score of 122-77.

Flack swam to victory in the 100-yard backstroke in 1:04.19 and took first  in the 200 freestyle in 2:01.50. Also winning for the Vikings were Hayley Cardinal in the 100 breaststroke, Taylor Winter in the 500 freestyle and the 200 medley relay team.

On the men’s side, Evan Flack won the 200 freestyle in 1:51.16, Grant Wilkie was first in the 100 freestyle in 52.31 seconds, Charlie Mann won the 100 backstroke in 59.41 seconds and Caleb Stellmach won the 500 freestyle in 5:22.22.

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Second-half surge leads Vikings to blowout of NIU

The Lawrence University women’s basketball team scored 26 consecutive points in the second half and rolled to a 75-57 nonconference victory over Northland International University on Thursday night at Alexander Gymnasium.

Lawrence (1-5) had two players with a double-double and Amber Lisowe tied her career high with 25 points to pace the Vikings. Katie Schumacher scored 13 points and grabbed a career-high 12 rebounds for the Vikings, and Alex Deshler had her fourth double-double in six games this season with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Deshler also had a career-high seven steals to go along with five assists.

Lisowe shot 10-for-17 from the floor and added six rebounds, four assists, three steals and a block. She matched her career high of 25 points, which she set at Illinois College back on Nov. 25.

Allie Riegel led Northland International (4-4) with 15 points, and Elizabeth Humburg added 14 points before fouling out.

The Vikings led 37-32 at the half, but the Pioneers battled back to take a 50-48 lead on a pair of Miranda Smith free throws with 10:29 remaining in the game.

Deshler responded by draining a 3-pointer from the left wing to give Lawrence a 51-50 lead. That basket started a 26-0 run by the Vikings over the next 8:04. Lawrence went from down two points to leading by 24 at 74-50 once the dust had settled.

Kassidy Rinehart scored seven of her nine points during that stretch, and Lisowe added six points during the run. Northland International went 0-for-12 from the floor and committed four of its 18 turnovers during the decisive run.

Lawrence returns to action on Saturday when it hosts Cornell College in a Midwest Conference game.

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Inside LU Athletics: Mazur a shooting star for Vikings

Let’s see who had a better day on Tuesday, you or Lawrence University student-athlete Tyler Mazur.

Mazur scored 29 points and hit a school-record nine 3-pointers in the Vikings’ basketball game at Carroll University on Tuesday. He also found out on Tuesday he was named to the D3football.com All-West Region team on Tuesday. And, just in case that wasn’t enough, the biology major found out he got straight As during the fall term.

My guess is Mazur is going to win about 99.9 percent of the who-had-the-better-day arguments.

“At the end of the game, I thought I had like seven,” said Mazur, who added the most 3-pointers he had ever made in a game was seven back at Reedsburg High School. “I honestly did not know how many it was. It was an interesting feeling.”

The performance came a bit out of nowhere for Lawrence’s multi-sport phenom. Through the first five games of the season, Mazur had hit on 7 of 20 3-point attempts and was shooting at a respectable 35 percent. Mazur connected on 9 of 11 treys on Tuesday and is now shooting 51.6 percent (16-31) from beyond the arc.

Mazur credits his hot shooting night to a bit of friendly advice from teammate and shooting partner Tom Antosz.

“Tom said, ‘You know what you need to do? You need to not think.’ During warmups, I wasn’t stroking it, and Tom came up and smacked me in the back of the head and said, ‘Stop thinking.’ ”

Mazur did just that.

“If I caught a glimpse of an open shot, I took it,” Mazur said.

Mazur broke the record of eight 3-pointers in a game held by Jason Holinbeck vs. Beloit College (2/9/02) and Joel Dillingham vs. American Indian Bible College (12/11/90).

“Everybody knew he was feeling it, but I didn’t know how many he had,” Lawrence coach Joel DePagter said of Mazur. “He was keeping us in the game a little bit with how on fire he was. When you sit back and look at it after the game, it was pretty impressive. The two shots he missed, he was wide open. The nine he made, he had a guy draped all over him.”

With Mazur’s eye-popping numbers from Tuesday night, teams around the Midwest Conference will certainly be paying more attention to No. 10. With yet another offensive weapon for the Vikings, this could open more things up for Lawrence.

“Mazur just had one of those game. He’s not going to surprise anyone anymore,” DePagter said. “If they stop Tyler, that’s when other guys have to step up. If they stop Chris (Siebert) and (Ryan) DePouw, then Mazur steps up.”

Mazur went straight from football season into the basketball campaign, and he turned in a stellar season for the football squad. A first-team All-Midwest Conference selection, he earned a third-team honor on the all-region squad. Mazur caught 53 passes for 1,139 yards and 13 touchdowns and finished his football career ranked fourth in Lawrence receiving yards (2,253), fifth in catches (130), fifth in touchdown catches (25), fourth in total touchdowns (37) and fifth in points (224).

“I didn’t find out until after the game,” Mazur said of the all-region selection. “It’s a great honor to have. Any kind of rewards are nice to get, and I appreciate all the recognition. I like to go out and play and to have that extra stuff when you’re done is great.”

Is Mazur, who also has run track and played golf for the Vikings, the best athlete on the campus?

“I think you’d be hard pressed to find someone who’s close,” DePagter said. “I don’t know if he would wow people in individual tests, but he has the intangibles to be able to do things you can’t teach. He finds ways to do it. He gets things done in a deceptive way, which makes him more effective.”

Lemirande gets MCHA honor

Logan Lemirande has been named the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association Player of the Week.

Lemirande led the Vikings to a sweep of conference rival Finlandia University this past weekend. Lemirande had two goals and five assists as Lawrence won 6-3 last Friday and 5-2 on Saturday.

The freshman forward from Janesville, Wis., scored a goal and picked up four assists in the victory on Friday. The four assists ties the second-highest game total in Lawrence history. Lemirande then picked up the first short-handed goal of his career and added an assist in the win on Saturday.

Lemirande was involved in eight of Lawrence’s 11 goals during the two-game series and assisted on the game-winning goal in both games. Lemirande was plus-5 on the weekend.

Ram Tough

Lawrence welcomes Cornell College to Alexander Gymnasium on Saturday as the Rams return to the Midwest Conference, and the question is which Cornell men’s basketball team will be here. The Rams defeated preseason conference favorite St. Norbert College last Saturday and then lost to winless Knox College on the road three days later. The Cornell women are unbeaten at 6-0 and included in that was a 63-42 pasting of St. Norbert last Saturday.

Editor’s Note: Inside LU Athletics is a notes package written by Lawrence University Director of Athletic Media Relations 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.

Football star Mazur named to All-West Region team

Lawrence University football star Tyler Mazur has been named to the D3football.com All-West Region team.

Mazur (Reedsburg, Wis./Reedsburg), a senior wide receiver, was a third-team selection.

Mazur, an All-Midwest Conference selection in 2011 and 2012, caught 53 passes for 1,139 yards and 13 touchdowns this season. Mazur led the Midwest Conference at 113.9 receiving yards per game. He finished sixth at 5.3 catches per contest and averaged a league-best 21.5 yards per catch. Mazur was fourth in the conference in scoring at 8.0 points per game and was the top receiver in that category.

Mazur, who had two 200-yard receiving games this season, became the first Lawrence player to post 1,000 receiving yards in a season since Zach Michael did it back in 2003. Mazur finished his career with 2,253 receiving yards despite being a wide receiver for only two seasons.

Mazur finished his career ranked fourth in receiving yards, fifth in catches (130), fifth in touchdown catches (25), fourth in total touchdowns (37) and fifth in points (224).

Mazur is Lawrence’s first all-region selection since Ken Alvord and Tyler Krzewina back in 2006. Alvord was selected as a punter to the D3football.com and Don Hansen’s Football Gazette teams, and Krzewina made the Football Gazette squad.

Carroll holds off Vikings despite Mazur’s record-setting performance

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Tyler Mazur hit a Lawrence University record nine 3-pointers, but Carroll University hung on for an 84-81 Midwest Conference victory over the Vikings on Tuesday at Van Male Field House.

The Pioneers (5-1, 2-0 MWC) took the lead back for good with 1:52 left and then got a pair of key layups in the final 1:09 to hold on for the win. Lawrence (3-3, 2-2) got off a 3-point attempt before the buzzer sounded but it was blocked.

Mazur finished with 29 points and hit on 9 of 11 shots from 3-point range. Mazur broke the record of eight 3-pointers held by Jason Holinbeck vs. Beloit College (2/9/02) and Joel Dillingham vs. American Indian Bible College (12/11/90).

Lawrence hit on 16 of 20 3-point attempts, and that is the fourth-highest number of 3-pointers made in a game. It also is the fourth-highest 3-point shooting percentage in a game (80 percent).

Andrew Nottling and Caleb Zeegers led Carroll’s balanced attack with 12 points apiece.

The Vikings trailed by as many as 10 points in the first half, but Lawrence rallied and grabbed the lead less than two minutes into the second half. The game see-sawed from that point, with neither team leading by more than five points the rest of the way.

Lawrence led 77-76 on a pair of Ryan DePouw free throws with 4:04 left. Carroll finally took the lead back at 78-77 on two Rudy Bentley free throws with 2:26 remaining.

Conor Klusendorf, who finished with 19 points, threw down a dunk with 2:06 left to give Lawrence a 79-78 lead. Tyler Watzlawick countered with a layup for Carroll, and Lawrence turned the ball over on its next possession. Carroll then got a layup from Dan Kratz with 1:09 left to grab an 82-79 lead.

Chris Siebert blew through the Carroll defense for a layup that trimmed the margin to 82-81 with 45seconds left. Carroll then ran the shot clock down to nothing and got a layup from Andrew Nottling to go up 84-81 with 10 seconds remaining.

Carroll did a nice job of defending the 3-point line on the final possession, and DePouw’s 3-pointer at the buzzer was blocked.

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Lemirande named MCHA Player of the Week

Lawrence University standout Logan Lemirande has been named the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association Player of the Week.

Lemirande (Janesville, Wis.) led the Vikings to a sweep of conference rival Finlandia University this past weekend. Lemirande had two goals and five assists as Lawrence won 6-3 last Friday and 5-2 on Saturday.

The freshman forward scored a goal and picked up four assists in the victory on Friday. The four assists ties the second-highest game total in Lawrence history. Lemirande then picked up the first short-handed goal of his career and added an assist in the win on Saturday.

Lemirande was involved in eight of Lawrence’s 11 goals during the two-game series and assisted on the game-winning goal in both games. Lemirande was plus-5 on the weekend.

Lemirande leads the Vikings with 15 points and has a team-high 12 assists to go with three goals. Lemirande is first in the MCHA at 1.33 assists per game and ranks second in the league in points per game (1.67), power play points per game (0.67) and freshman scoring (1.67).

The Vikings (4-6-0) return to action on Friday when they travel to Gustavus Adolphus College for a nonconference game.

Carroll tops Vikings

WAUKESHA, Wis. — The Carroll University women’s basketball team jumped out to an 18-1 lead and rolled to a 91-38 Midwest Conference victory over Lawrence University on Tuesday at Van Male Field House.

Emily DeNoyer scored 19 points to lead four Carroll players in double figures. Kelly Menden added 14 points and was perfect on the night. She went 5-for-5 from the floor and 2-for-2 from the foul line.

Julia Piech and Kayla Smithback added 10 points apiece for the Pioneers (3-2, 2-0 MWC).

Freshman Patsy Kealey led Lawrence (0-5, 0-4) with 11 points and five rebounds.

It was DeNoyer’s layup with 14:11 left in the first half that gave Carroll an 18-1 lead. The Vikings got their first field goal of the game on Andrea Wilkinson’s layup with 13:36 left in the first half. Kealey followed with a 3-pointer to trim the lead to 21-6.

Lawrence didn’t hit double figures until the 3:46 mark of the first half, and Carroll would lead by as many as 38 points in the first half.

The Pioneers, who lead 50-12 at the break, would lead by as many as 57 points in the second half.

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