(LAWRENCE ATHLETICS) – APPLETON, Wis. — The Lawrence University baseball team gave Monmouth College too many chances Friday in their winners’ bracket game at the Midwest Conference Tournament, and the Scots turned it into a 12-7 win at Don Hawkins Field.
Lawrence pitchers walked 10 batters and hit four more, and the defense committed five errors.
The Vikings will play an elimination game Saturday at 10 a.m. against Beloit College. Monmouth is in the championship game, which is set for 2 p.m. Saturday.
The game was tied at 2-2 when Monmouth scored four times in the fourth, twice in the fifth and three more times in the sixth to pull away.
Lawrence (21-18) pounded out 13 hits against the Scots but it wasn’t enough.
Taylor Freeman went 4-for-4 with two solo home runs, a double, four runs scored and two runs batted in for the Vikings. Lawrence’s Edan Perez went 2-for-4 with a homer and drove in two runs. Zach Leslie went 4-for-5 for Lawrence, and CJ Filipek hit a two-run homer for the Vikings in the seventh inning.
First round game
The Lawrence University baseball team scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth Friday to grab a 10-9 victory over Grinnell College in the opening game of the Midwest Conference Tournament at Don Hawkins Field.
Lawrence (21-17) advances to play Monmouth College in a winners’ bracket game on Friday night.
The Vikings trailed from the start on Friday after giving up four runs in the top of the first. Lawrence battled back and tied the game at 7-7 on Zach Leslie’s run-scoring single in the seventh. Grinnell (23-18) came right back and hit a pair of solo homers in the eighth to take a 9-7 lead.
Lawrence trimmed the lead to 9-8 when Sage Beebe-Jenny singled to score Tate Hartlaub in the eighth before the Vikings won it in the ninth.
CJ Filipek reached on an error to start the inning, and pinch-runner Myles Brincks then scored on Edan Perez’s double to tie the game. Shane Santaga followed with one-out single to left to put runners at the corners. Nic Heerde laced a single to left, and Perez came home with the winning run.
Shane Foley pitched a scoreless final 1.1 innings to get the win for the Vikings.
Heerde and Perez both had two hits and drove in a pair of runs. Hartlaub, Beebe-Jenny, Santaga and Ben Gutowski also had two hits, Taylor Freeman scored three times and Filipek drove in a pair of runs.
