APPLETON, Wis. -- The Lawrence University baseball team rallied late Sunday, but a ninth-inning rally allowed the University of Chicago to post a 14-7 Midwest Conference victory at Whiting Field.
    Chicago had pulled out to a 9-2 lead, but the Vikings scored five times in the seventh and eighth to trim the margin to 9-7. The Maroons then posted a five-run ninth to pull away for the victory in the season finale for Lawrence (15-22, 10-14 MWC).
    Parker Knoll went 3-for-4 with a homer and two doubles, three runs batted in and three runs scored to pace Lawrence's 13-hit attack. Eden Perez was 2-for-4 and drove in a pair of runs for the Vikings, and Taylor Freeman was 2-for-3 with two runs scored. 
    Michael Duttlinger was one of five seniors the Vikings honored before the game and he made the start on the mound. Duttlinger ran into trouble in the sixth when the Maroons scored three times to pull ahead. He struck out six and didn't walk a batter in 5.2 innings. 
    Four of Lawrence's seniors, Duttlinger, Jake Land, Jordan Schaefer and Preston Anderson (the fifth senior, Mitchell Sandleback was injured), saw action in the game.
    After Chicago scored four times in the seventh, the Vikings rallied. Knoll started the bottom of the seventh with a double and Freeman followed with a walk. After a double steal, Perez's sacrifice fly scored Knoll. Zach Leslie followed with another sacrifice fly to score Freeman to trim the lead to 9-4.
    Lawrence got a two-out rally going in the eighth when Braden Jirovec lost Land's fly ball to right in the sun. Luke Miles followed with a walk to keep the rally going. Knoll then hit a three-run blast over the fence in left, his 10th homer of the season, to trim the lead to 9-7.
    Chicago (24-16, 15-9) then scored five times in the ninth on four hits to pull away for good.