APPLETON, Wis. -- The Lawrence University baseball team used the long ball and fine pitching performance Saturday to post a Midwest Conference doubleheader split with Ripon College at Whiting Field.
    The Vikings won the opener 9-5 and Ripon rallied to take the second game 10-6.
    In the opener, Mitchell Sandleback and Quinn Berglin homered for Lawrence, and Jonah Palmer went 6.1 innings to grab the victory. Sandleback went 3-for-4, drove in three runs and scored a run, and Berglin was 2-for-3 with three runs batted in and two runs scored. Ethan Plantz went 2-for-4 for the Vikings and drove in a run.
    Palmer pitched into the seventh inning and allowed only two hits and no earned runs. He struck out six and walked one to pick up his first career victory.
    Lawrence (9-5, 3-3 MWC) got the scoring started in the second when Berglin started the rally with a single. After Zach Leslie was hit by a pitch, Sandleback hit a booming homer to left and Lawrence led 3-0. Elden Santana followed with a one-out single and later scored on Luke Miles' two-out double. The next three batters, Spenser Ross, Clayton Agler and Berglin, all walked to force in Miles with another run, and the Vikings were up 5-0.
    The Vikings tacked on a run in the third when Santana walked and came around to score on Plantz's single for a 6-0 edge. Ripon (5-14, 1-5) scored the game's next five runs, all unearned, to cut the lead to 6-5 in the top of the seventh.
    The Vikings rallied in the bottom half of the seventh when Agler was hit by a pitch to start the inning and Berglin followed with a homer to left to push the lead to 8-5. Lawrence manufactured a run in the eighth on Plantz's infield single, a sacrifice bunt, a stolen base and Ross' sacrifice fly to complete the scoring.
    Nick Guzzo and Berglin combined to throw the final 2.2 innings of scoreless relief.
    In the second game, Berglin went 2-for-4 with a double, and Jacob Charon blasted a homer and drove in a pair of runs.
    The Vikings jumped out to a 6-0 lead through two-plus innings against Ripon starter Brice Swick. Berglin started the rally in the second with a single, and Charon smacked a homer to left for a 2-0 Lawrence lead. Miles kept the rally going with a single and later came home to score on Jake Land's groundout for a 3-0 advantage.
    Agler got hit by a pitch to start the third, and Sandleback followed with a run-scoring double and Lawrence led 4-0. Berglin added a run-scoring double to score Sandleback and Leslie picked up an RBI single to put the Vikings up 6-0.
    Blaine Wahlen then handcuffed the Vikings by throwing five innings of scoreless relief to pick up the win. Henry Sipchen took the loss in relief for Lawrence.
    Ripon used a five-run fourth inning to get back into the game, and the Red Hawks added three runs in the fifth to take the lead. Ripon tacked on two more runs in the seventh to close out the scoring.