DE PERE, Wis. -- The Lawrence University softball team grabbed its first victory of the season Wednesday with a Midwest Conference doubleheader split against St. Norbert College at Miron Construction Field.
    The Vikings won the nightcap 6-5 after St. Norbert posted a 9-4 victory in the first game. The win was the first at Lawrence for first-year head coach Tracy Cromer.
    In the second game, Emilia Jackson went the distance to pick up the victory. Jackson allowed nine hits while striking out three and walking three, and she drove in three runs.
    The top five hitters in the Lawrence lineup did some serious damage as they combined for 10 hits. Lawrence's Amanda Karnatz went 3-for-4 and scored a pair of runs. Mary Boyle and Ceara Larson both went 2-for-3 with a run scored, and Boyle drove in a run. Mikayla Jeneske went 2-for-4, scored a run and drove in a run. Jackson batted fifth and collected a bases-loaded double.
    Shelby Johnson got Lawrence (1-7, 1-1 MWC) on the board in the second when she smacked a double to score Jackson, who had walked, to tie the game at 1-1. 
    The Vikings pushed the lead to 5-1 in the third, loading the bases on singles by Karnatz, Boyle and Larson. After a groundout scored a run, Jackson smacked a bases-clearing double to put the Vikings up by four.
    St. Norbert (6-6, 1-1) tied the game with four runs in the fifth, but the Vikings took the lead back in the top of the sixth. Karnatz started the rally with a two-out single and then stole second. Boyle followed with a single to score Karnatz and Lawrence led 6-5. 
    St. Norbert put two runners on in the bottom half of the inning, but Jackson struck out Alyssa Sikora to end the threat. Jackson then retired the Green Knights in order in the seventh to close out the win.
    In the first game, Lawrence pounded out 13 hits but stranded 13 runners. 
    Karnatz went 3-for-4 with a double, scored twice and drove in a run, and Johnson was 3-for-4 and scored a run. Boyle and Jeneske both went 2-for-4 and each player had a double. 
    Lawrence grabbed a 2-0 lead in the third on Karnatz's RBI double and Larson's run-scoring single. St. Norbert then broke the game open in the fourth by scoring seven times, and the Green Knights added two more runs in the fifth. Lawrence added two runs in the sixth on Boyle's RBI single and a bases-loaded walk by Jackson.
    Jackson pitched the first four innings and took the loss. She allowed eight hits, struck out four and walked two. Johnson worked the final two frames.