DE PERE, Wis. -- The Lawrence University softball team grabbed a pair of wins Wednesday with a nonconference doubleheader sweep of Finlandia University at Miron Construction Field.
    Lawrence won the opener 13-3 in five innings and took an 8-4 victory in the second game.
    In the opener, Lawrence pounded out 15 hits and rode the pitching of Xiomara Rueda-Marshall to the victory. It was the first collegiate victory for Rueda-Marshall, who allowed four hits, struck out five and walked three. Rueda-Marshall also went 3-for-3 with a double, scored three times and drove in a run.
    Mattigan Haller went 3-for-4 with two doubles, scored three times and drove in a pair of runs for the Vikings (2-18). Mary Boyle and Taylor Hughes both went 2-for-3 and both drove in two runs for Lawrence, and Khayla Santiago also had a pair of hits.
    The Vikings jumped on Finlandia with six runs in the first inning. Haller got things started with a run-scoring double, a fielder's choice got Rueda-Marshall home and Hughes' infield single allowed Haller to score for a 3-0 lead. Alyssa Sorensen then tripled to score two more, and an error allowed another run to score for a 6-1 lead after one inning.
    Lawrence added four more runs in the second, and Boyle got things going with a run-scoring double. Hughes followed with an RBI single, and Chapin Grumhaus smacked a run-scoring double for a 9-1 lead. Sorensen tacked on a sacrifice fly, and the Vikings were up 10-1 after two.
    The Vikings made it 12-1 in the third thanks to run-scoring doubles from Haller and Boyle. Finlandia got two runs in the fourth, and the Vikings tacked on another run in the bottom half of the inning on Rueda-Marshall's run-scoring single for the final margin.
    Finlandia (0-22) built a 3-0 lead through two innings in the nightcap against Lawrence starter Lizzy Angemi, but the Vikings rallied.
    Mikayla Jeneske started the fourth inning with a booming homer to left to trim the lead to 3-1. Boyle then doubled with one out, and a pair of wild pitches brought her home to cut the lead to 3-2.
    The Vikings then grabbed the lead with five runs in the fifth. Hughes got the inning started with a walk, Grumhaus followed with a rocket past third base and Laney Martens had a bunt single to load the bases. Shelby Johnson followed with a two-run single to give Lawrence a 4-3 advantage.
    Santiago then beat out an infield single, and Martens scored on the play for a 5-3 lead. Boyle then picked up a sacrifice fly, and Santiago later scored on a wild pitch to put the Vikings up 7-3.
    Finlandia scored a run in the top of the sixth to cut the lead to 7-4, but Grumhaus tripled and scored in the bottom half of the inning to push the lead back to 8-4. 
    Angemi then worked around a pair of errors in the ninth to secure the win. Angemi went the distance, allowed 11 hits, struck out four and walked one to improve to 1-1 on the season.
    Boyle went 2-for-2 with two doubles and a run driven in in game two. Jeneske was 2-for-4 with a homer, and Johnson was 2-for-3 with two runs batted in. Grumhaus was 2-for-3 and scored twice.
    Lawrence returns to Midwest Conference play when the Vikings travel to Cornell College and Monmouth College.