APPLETON, Wis. — CJ Filipek homered and drove in four runs Sunday to lead the Lawrence University baseball team to a 5-3 Midwest Conference win over Grinnell College at Whiting Field.
The win gave Lawrence a series win over the Pioneers after the teams split a doubleheader on Saturday.
Filipek went 3-for-4 with a homer, two doubles, four runs batted in and two runs scored.
Lawrence (11-12, 5-4 MWC) jumped on the Pioneers for three runs in the opening inning. Tate Hartlaub started the game with a single, and Zach Leslie followed with a single. After an out, Filipek doubled to score both runners for a 2-0 lead. Shane Santaga later delivered a triple to score Filipek, and the Vikings led 3-0.
Grinnell (16-12, 4-5) chipped away and scored single runs in the third, fourth and fifth to tie the game.
Taylor Freeman then started a rally for the Vikings in the seventh with an infield single. Filipek then belted a two-run homer, and the Vikings led 5-3.
Reliever William Polanco worked around a pair of Grinnell singles in the eighth with two big strikeouts to retain Lawrence’s lead. Shane Foley came on in the ninth and worked around an infield single to record his fourth save of the season.
Rookie pitcher Malachi Ross tossed two innings of scoreless relief to get the victory and improve to 2-0 on the season.
Saturday
APPLETON, Wis. — The Lawrence University baseball team rallied for a victory in the opener Saturday against Grinnell College but settled for a Midwest Conference doubleheader split with the Pioneers at Whiting Field.
Lawrence took game one 10-7, and Grinnell won the nightcap 12-3.
In the opener, Lawrence’s Tate Hartlaub went 3-for-3 with a double, three runs batted in and a run scored. Taylor Freeman went 2-for-4 with a homer, drove in three runs and scored twice for the Vikings, and Sage Beebe-Jenny was 2-for-3 with a triple, three runs scored and one driven in.
Shane Foley pitched 1.1 innings of hitless relief to get the win for Lawrence (10-12, 4-4 MWC).
Grinnell (16-11, 4-4) led 3-0 early before Freeman picked up a run-scoring single, and CJ Filipek added a run-scoring double in the third to trim the margin to 3-2. The Pioneers added on to their lead and were up 5-2 headed to the bottom of the seventh.
Beebe-Jenny smacked a run-scoring triple in the seventh, and Hartlaub followed with an RBI single to cut the lead to 5-4. Freeman then blasted a two-run homer to put the Vikings up 6-5. Grinnell rallied for two runs in the top of of the eighth to take a 7-6 advantage.
Lawrence wasn’t done as the Vikings rallied in the bottom half of the eighth. Edan Perez got things started with a single, and William Zatkowski added a single. Ben Gutowski’s sacrifice fly scored Perez to tie the game. Hartlaub drilled a two-run double to score Beebe-Jenny and pinch-runner Myles Brincks to put the Vikings up 9-7. Shane Santaga followed with a run-scoring single, and the Vikings led 10-7.
Foley then struck out the side in the ninth to secure the win.
In the second game, Grinnell jumped on Lawrence starter Elden Santana for two runs in the first innings and kept adding runs througout the contest. Santana went four innings and took his first loss of the season to fall to 4-1.
Jacob Runkel allowed just one run while scattering six hits over 6.1 innings to get the win for Grinnell.
Hartlaub went 3-for-4 and drove in a run, and Freeman was 2-for-5 with a double.
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