KENOSHA, Wis. -- Taylor Freeman had a record-breaking day at the plate Thursday to lead the Lawrence University baseball team to a 17-14 nonconference victory over Carthage College at Augie Schmidt Field.
    Freeman went 7-for-7 with two home runs and two doubles, drove in six runs and scored four runs for the Vikings. He broke the school record for hits in a game, which was five and held by a number of players. Freeman also finished with 15 total bases, which broke the record of 13 set by Travis Weber in 2016.
    Lawrence (14-20) finished with 21 hits and hit four home runs. 
    Edan Perez went 3-for-4 with a homer and two runs batted in, and Luke Miles also finished 3-for-4, drove in two runs and scored twice. Zach Leslie was 3-for-6 with a double, two runs scored and a run batted in. Jake Land homered for the Vikings and drove in a pair of runs.
    Conner Robertson picked up his first collegiate victory in relief for the Vikings. He went 2.2 innings, allowed three hits and two runs while striking out one and walking one. Cam Ruth worked the final 1.1 innings to record the save.
    The Vikings trailed 3-0 before scoring three times in the third. Freeman started the inning with a homer, Ben Gutowski picked up a run-scoring single and Miles drove in the other run with a bases-loaded walk.
    Lawrence then exploded for eight runs in the fourth to grab an 11-4 lead. Perez hit a two-run homer in the inning and five batters later Land hit a two-run homer. Freeman then blasted a three-run homer to finish the scoring barrage. 
    Carthage (8-28) then scored twice in the fourth and six more times in the fifth to take a 12-11 lead.
    The Vikings grabbed the lead back for good in the sixth. Freeman had a two-run single to give the Vikings the lead, and Leslie added a run-scoring single for a 14-12 edge. Lawrence tacked on two more runs in the seventh to push the lead to 16-13 after seven innings, but Carthage scored again in the eighth to trim the margin to two. The Vikings got that run back on Miles' run-scoring single in the ninth, and Ruth struck out two in the bottom half of the inning to close out the win.
    The victory was the first for the Vikings against Carthage and marked a homecoming for Lawrence coach Chris Krepline, who was a star for the Firebirds under head coach Augie Schmidt. Lawrence and Carthage had not played since 1997.
    Lawrence wraps up Midwest Conference play this weekend when the Vikings host the University of Chicago in a three-game series at Whiting Field.