MONMOUTH, Ill. -- The Lawrence University baseball team dropped a Midwest Conference doubleheader to Monmouth College on Saturday at Glasgow Field.
    Monmouth hung on for an 8-7 victory in the opener, and the Scots won the nightcap 14-2 in seven innings.
    In the first game, Lawrence's Taylor Freeman went 2-for-3 with a double and three runs scored, and Parker Knoll was 2-for-5 with a triple and two runs scored. Nick Heerde drove in a pair of runs for the Vikings (17-9, 12-4 MWC).
    The teams traded runs in the first three innings, but the Vikings trailed 4-1 after the first. Lawrence scored twice in the second on two hits, and Freeman got it started with a single. He scored on Preston Anderson's sacrifice fly, and Luke Miles later scored on Heerde's single to cut the lead to 4-3.
    Lawrence added two more runs in the third as Knoll led off the inning with a triple. An error allowed Knoll to score, and Zach Leslie's sacrifice fly brought in the second run to tie the game at 5-5.
    Monmouth (12-17, 6-10) scored once in the third and twice in the fifth to take an 8-5 lead. Lawrence got a run back in the sixth when Freeman doubled and came around to score on Miles' squeeze bunt.
    The Vikings manufactured a run in the eighth when Freeman walked, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch and came home on Heerde's sacrifice fly to trim the margin to 8-7. Tim McNally then retired the Vikings in order in the ninth to get the save.
    In the second game, Lawrence was limited to four hits, all singles, by Monmouth starter A.J. Hatlestad. He struck out six and walked two over six innings. 
    Monmouth scored six times in the first and tacked on three runs in the second and three more in the third to pull away.
    The teams wrap up the series with one game on Sunday at Glasgow Field.