RIVER FOREST, Ill. — The Dominican University women’s soccer team posted a 2-0 nonconference shutout against Lawrence University on Friday.
The Stars (1-0-0) scored late in the first half and added another goal late in the game to pick up the victory.
Autumn Koomler scored at the 40:17 mark, and Kelly Petty added a second goal at the 84:07 mark.
Dominican held a 19-10 advantage in shots over the Vikings (0-1-0).
The Northland International University men’s soccer team scored twice in a span of 1:06 early in the second half and rode that to a 3-1 nonconference victory over Lawrence University on Friday at Whiting Field West.
The Vikings (0-1-0) got on the board when Erich Lohrmann scored his first career goal off assists from Cameron Pieper and David Caprile at the 22:52 mark.
Lawrence held that 1-0 edge until the 48:41 mark when Paul Chatfield scored for the Pioneers (1-0-0). Josh Netz then gave Northland International the lead at the 49:47 mark.
The Pioneers added a goal at 79:01 from Aaron Debutiaco to complete the scoring.
Travis Kirkland made only three saves and got the win. Kevin Aslett, making his debut in net for the Vikings, made 12 saves.
The Carroll University baseball team got a triple play and a grand slam in the opener and rallied late to win the nightcap in a Midwest Conference doubleheader sweep of Lawrence University at Whiting Field on Thursday.
Carroll took the opener 10-6 and the Pioneers won the second game 5-2.
In the first game, Aaron Gendrich hit a grand slam for Carroll (15-19, 5-11 MWC), and the Pioneers ended the game on a triple play. Joe Klobukowski went 3-for-5 and drove in a pair of runs for Carroll.
Richie Matyas allowed four runs in relief but picked up the win. Matt Risch pitched 5 1/3 innings of relief for the save.
Drew Doares, who shut out the Pioneers this past Saturday, allowed eight runs over four innings and took the loss.
Sam Kossow went 2-for-4 and Davide Harris drove in a pair of runs for the Vikings (14-21, 5-11).
The nightcap was a pitchers’ duel between Carroll’s Matt Buhrow and Lawrence’s Atley Gay.
Carroll took a 2-0 lead in the second, but the Vikings picked up single runs in the second and third to tie the game. The score stayed that way until the eighth when Carroll scored three times with two outs.
Gay allowed a walk and a pair of singles with two outs in the eighth, and Carroll took a 3-2 lead. Davis Ogilvie came on in relief, and Matt Francis hit a line drive that hit Ogilvie near his left eye and caromed into center field. Two runs scored on the play and Carroll led 5-2.
Gay allowed seven hits over 7 2/3 innings and took the loss. Buhrow went the distance, allowed seven hits, struck out 10 and walked four to get the win.
Senior Eric Bohling finished his career with the Vikings by going 3-for-5 and was just a homer short of hitting for the cycle in the nightcap. Kossow went 2-for-4 for Lawrence in the second game.
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Freshman pitcher Drew Doares tossed his second shutout of the season to lead the Lawrence University baseball team to a Midwest Conference doubleheader split with Carroll University on Saturday at Frame Park.
Lawrence (14-19, 5-9 MWC) won the opener 7-0, and Carroll (13-19, 3-11) pulled away late to take the nightcap 14-8.
Doares improved to 4-5 on the season and earned his second shutout in impressive fashion. He allowed only five hits, struck out six and walked one. Doares allowed only two runners as far as second base and none made it to third.
Jake Gordon went 3-for-3 and drove in three runs for the Vikings, and Sam Kossow went 3-for-5. Gabe Henriques had a pair of hits for Lawrence, and Phil Wisniewski homered for the Vikings.
Lawrence led 2-0 and started to break the game open with three runs in the sixth. An error and a Kossow double put a pair of runners aboard, and Gordon followed with a two-run double. Gordon later scored on a wild pitch to give Lawrence a 5-0 lead.
The Vikings then completed the scoring with a pair of runs in the seventh on back-to-back RBI singles from Kossow and Gordon.
Matt Buhrow went the distance for Carroll, allowed 11 hits, and took the loss.
In the nightcap, Carroll scored six times in the eighth to break an 8-8 tie. The Pioneers scored six times in the eighth on five hits, and the big blow was Drew Volkmann’s three-run double. Volkmann went 4-for-6 and drove in seven runs.
Dan Taylor took the loss in relief for the Vikings, and Marcus Radue worked the final 2 2/3 innings to get the win.
Kossow, Alex Brewer and Eric Bohling all had two hits for the Vikings, and Wisniewski drove in three runs. Wisniewski hit a three-run homer as part of a four-run sixth inning that tied the game at 8-8.
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Lawrence University softball coach Kim Tatro picked up career win No. 300 on Sunday as the Vikings split a Midwest Conference doubleheader with Carroll University.
Carroll took the opener 2-1, and the Vikings won the nightcap 8-5.
The victory in the second game gave Tatro her 300th win and improved her record to 300-281-1 over 19 seasons at Lawrence. Tatro has more victories (391 combined with softball and volleyball) than any coach in Lawrence history.
Lawrence (9-22, 2-6 MWC) trailed 2-0 in the nightcap before scoring three runs in the top of the third. Brielle Bartes led off the inning with her first homer of the season, and the Vikings then loaded the bases. Lawrence added two more runs on a ground out and Cory Paquette’s single to go up 3-2.
The Vikings added two more runs in the fourth without a hit as the Pioneers committed and error and threw a pair of wild pitches. Carroll (19-12, 5-3) cut the lead to 5-3 with a run in the bottom half of the inning, but Lawrence rallied again in the top of the fifth.
Coley LaChance and Shannon Murray started the inning with singles and moved to second and third on an error. Cathy Kaye lifted a sacrifice fly to score LaChance, and Kara Vance added a run-scoring single to give the Vikings a 7-3.
Lawrence added a run in the sixth on Alex Chiodo’s RBI single, but Carroll cut the lead to 8-5 with two runs in the bottom half of the inning. Murray then a perfect seventh to seal the win.
Emily Perish, Chiodo, Paquette and Vance all had two hits to pace the Vikings in the nightcap. Murray went the distance to pick up the win.
In the opener, Carroll scored twice in the second, and all Lawrence could muster was a single run in the fifth.
Lawrence loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh, but Carroll pitcher Taylor Steinhilber got Alissa Geipel to ground out to end the game. Steinhilber went the distance to pick up the win, and Murray took the loss.
The St. Norbert College baseball team downed Lawrence University in a pair of slugfests at Whiting Field on Sunday.
The Green Knights won the opener 14-10, and St. Norbert (19-10, 10-2 MWC) took the nightcap of the Midwest Conference doubleheader 10-8.
Travis Mason and Matt Hannon had three hits apiece in the opener for St. Norbert, and Mason drove in six runs. Nathan Schadrie pitched seven innings of relief to get the win for St. Norbert.
Davis Ogilvie and Davide Harris had three hits apiece for Lawrence. Ogilvie, also the starting pitcher, had his first career hit, his first career double and drove in his first two runs. Eric Bohling, Phil Wisniewski, Sam Kossow and Jake Gordon all had two hits for the Vikings.
Ogilvie allowed six hits over 7 1/3 innings. He struck out six and walked five. Phil Clark allowed five runs without recording an out and took the loss.
Lawrence (13-18, 4-8) had built an 8-6 lead in the opener before St. Norbert struck for six runs in the eighth inning. The big blows in the inning were Mason’s two-run homer and Garrick Fisher’s solo shot.
Lawrence cut the lead to 12-9 with a run in the bottom of the eighth, but St. Norbert got two more runs in the top of the ninth to push the lead to 14-9. Harris smacked a run-scoring double in the bottom half of the inning to cut the lead to 14-10 but the Vikings could get no closer.
Jordan Powers and Hannon both had three hits in the nightcap for St. Norbert, and Jose Godinez and Alex Larsen both homered for the Green Knights.
Bohling went 3-for-5 and homered for Lawrence, and Kossow, Gordon and Tanner DeBettencourt all had two hits for the Vikings.
Lawrence built a 6-2 lead by scoring three times in the second and three more times in the third. The Vikings held that edge until St. Norbert exploded for seven runs in the sixth inning. Godinez belted a three-run homer for the Green Knights and Mason had a key two-run single in the inning.
Lawrence trimmed the lead to 9-7 in the bottom half of the inning when Bohling led off with a homer. The Vikings then trimmed the lead to 9-8 in the bottom of the eighth when Ogilvie pinch-hit and drew a bases-loaded walk from Kevin Nutley. Nutley then struck out Harris and Gabe Henriques to preserve the one-run lead.
St. Norbert added an insurance run in the top of the ninth, but Lawrence got a single from Bohling and Kossow walked to put the tying runs aboard in the bottom half of the inning. Nutley then got Gordon to ground out to end the game and pick up his second save of the season.
Nick Dagneau pitched three innings of relief to get the win. Atley Gay started for Lawrence and took the loss.
DE PERE, Wis. — The St. Norbert College baseball team picked up a Midwest Conference doubleheader sweep against Lawrence University on Saturday at Mel Nicks Field.
St. Norbert (17-10, 8-2 MWC) won the opener 24-2 and took the nightcap 6-1.
In the opener, St. Norbert pounded out 25 hits and scored in each of the first five innings. Chad Ljunggren went 4-for-5, scored three runs and drove in three for St. Norbert. Garrick Fisher and Troy Rottier had three hits apiece, and Rottier drove in four runs.
Kevin Nutley pitched five innings to pick up the win. Drew Doares lasted only 1 1/3 innings and took the loss.
Phil Wisniewski went 2-for-2 to lead Lawrence (13-16, 4-6).
In the nightcap, St. Norbert used timely hitting to build a 6-0 lead. Travis Mason, Jose Godinez and Ljunggren all had two hits for the Green Knights.
Josh Honzik went eight-plus innings to get the win. He allowed six hits, struck out 10 and walked two. Kelton Jenkins went 5 2/3 innings and took the loss.
Wisniewski again collected two hits for the Vikings.
The Lawrence University softball team endured a pair of heartbreaking losses to Elmhurst College on Saturday at Whiting Field.
Elmhurst won the opener 4-1 and took the nightcap 8-7.
Lawrence (8-21) led 1-0 in the opener before Tiffany Potthast hit a one-out grand slam in the seventh to lift Elmhurst (24-13) to the win.
Rose Wysocki went 3-for-4 for the Bluejays in the opener, and Potthast pitched the final two innings to pick up the win.
Shannon Murray went the distance and took the loss for the Vikings. She allowed nine hits, struck out one and walked one. Kara Vance went 2-for-3 to pace the Lawrence offense.
In the nightcap, Lawrence built a 6-0 lead thanks to some shoddy defense and poor pitching from the Bluejays.
The Vikings scored four runs in the first on only one hit, and that hit didn’t figure into the scoring. Lawrence loaded the bases on two walks and an error. A passed ball scored Cory Paquette and a throwing error by the catcher on the play allowed Alex Chiodo to score. Scarlett Pucci then uncorked a wild pitch and Murray scored to put the Vikings up 3-0. Cathy Kaye then walked, stole second, went to third on a passed ball and scored on a wild pitch.
Lawrence scored two more times in the second when Chiodo walked and scored when Coley LaChance’s single got past Potthast in left field. Vance later singled to score LaChance to put the Vikings up 6-0.
Lawrence led 7-1 when the Bluejays scored five times on six hits in the fifth inning to cut the margin to 7-6. The Vikings then escaped a major jam in the sixth when the Vikings threw out two runners at the plate, including a strike from Kaye in center field to end the inning.
Potthast got the winning rally going in the seventh when she reached on an infield single with one out. Murray then got a fly out and had a 1-2 count on Clare Bukowski when she blasted a two-run homer to put Elmhurst up 8-7.
Lindsay Nauman, who pitched 5 1/3 innings of one-hit relief, set the Vikings down in order in the seventh to seal the win.
Potthast went 3-for-4, scored two runs and drove in two runs for the Bluejays.
The Lawrence University softball team cruised to a win in the opener on Thursday, but Finlandia University took the nightcap to split a nonconference doubleheader at Whiting Field.
Lawrence (8-19) won the opener 9-1 in six innings, and Finlandia (24-8) took the second game 9-4.
In the opener, Shannon Murray went the distance to pick up the win. She allowed only four hits and one unearned run. Murray struck out four and walked one.
Cathy Kaye powered the Lawrence offense by going 3-for-3. Murray and Alissa Geipel both went 2-for-3 and each drove in a pair of runs.
Lawrence took a 3-1 lead with three runs in the second. Geipel drove in Kara Vance with a run-scoring single to tie the game at 1-1, and Kaye then scored on a passed ball. Brittany Garland then uncorked a wild pitch to score Geipel and give Lawrence a two-run edge.
Lawrence added a run in the fourth on Geipel’s RBI single, and the Vikings pulled away with three runs in the fifth. The Vikings loaded the bases on a pair of singles and a hit batsman, and Murray followed with a two-run single to put Lawrence up 6-1. Kaye later singled up the middle to score Murray to make it 7-1.
Lawrence ended the game on the mercy rule with two runs in the sixth. Lawrence had two runners aboard when Coley LaChance dumped a two-run double down the right field line to end the game.
Garland allowed 11 hits over 5 2/3 innings and took the loss.
In the nightcap, Finlandia collected 12 hits and took advantage of three Lawrence errors to pull away. Garland went the distance to get the win. Garland also went 2-for-4 with a solo homer, and she scored two runs and drove in a pair.
Garland led off the game with a homer, and Finlandia manufactured a run in the second to go up 2-0. The Lions then scored four times in the third with only one hit, but they took advantage of two errors and a wild pitch to go up 6-1.
Finlandia added three runs in the fourth with Garland, Sam Walters and Ashley Benavidez all picking up run-scoring singles to give the Lions a 9-1 lead. Lawrence trimmed the lead to 9-2 with Kaye’s RBI single in the fourth, and the Vikings added two more runs in the seventh for the final margin.
Kaye went 2-for-3 and drove in two runs for the Vikings in the nightcap. Kara Vance made the start and took the loss after pitching only 2 1/3 innings.
Lawrence plays its final home doubleheader on Saturday when it hosts Elmhurst College.
A big third inning lifted the Lawrence University baseball team to a 6-4 nonconference victory over Northland College on Wednesday at Whiting Field.
The Vikings (13-14) scored all six of their runs in the third inning and have now won their last seven nonconference games.
Eric Bohling went 2-for-4 and drove in a pair of runs on his second home run of the season to lead the Vikings. Freshman outfielder Jake Gordon went 3-for-4 for Lawrence.
Sophomore John Doran worked three innings of relief to pick up his first career victory. Doran allowed four hits, struck out three and walked one. Phil Clark worked a perfect ninth to get his second save of the season.
Shane Ellias started and lasted only 2 2/3 innings. He allowed all six runs and took the loss for Northland (12-19).
Northland led 1-0 heading to the bottom of the third when Gabe Henriques started the rally with a one-out single. Bohling followed with a homer down the left field line to give the Vikings a 2-1 lead.
After Joel Birch walked and Phil Wisniewski singled, Sam Kossow singled to score Birch. Gordon laid down a bunt single, but a throwing error on the play allowed Wisniewski to score. Another error allowed Marc Linger to reach and Kossow and Gordon both scored on that play to put Lawrence up 6-2.
Northland added a single run in the sixth and two more in the seventh, but Kelton Jenkins came on in relief to shut down the rally in the seventh. Dan Taylor worked a scoreless eighth, and Clark worked a 1-2-3 ninth, including striking out the final batter to get the save.
Lawrence returns to Midwest Conference play when it travels to St. Norbert College on Saturday for a doubleheader.
