APPLETON, Wis. -- The Lawrence University men's basketball team struggled from 3-point range on Saturday and dropped an 85-65 nonconference decision to Dominican University at Alexander Gymnasium.
    Lawrence went just 5-for-21 (23.8 percent) from beyond the arc and 8-for-19 from the foul line (42.1 percent) while Dominican hit big shot after big shot. The Stars (3-8) shot 58.3 percent from the floor, including 40 percent from 3-point range.
    Casey Schoenecker led Lawrence (4-8) with 19 points as he went 9-for-14 from the floor, and he added a team-high eight rebounds to go with four steals and two assists. Hogan Demovsky and Landon Key added 11 points apiece for the Vikings. Liam Graham came off the bench for the Vikings to chip in with 10 points as he went 4-for-6 from the floor, including 2-for-3 on 3-pointers. 
    Terrell Taylor paced Dominican with a game-high 23 points as he went 10-for-15 from the floor.
    Dominican pulled away midway through the opening half when the Stars scored 14 straight points to grab a 22-10 lead. Lawrence trimmed the lead back to 24-19 with the help of consecutive layups from Schoenecker, Demovsky and Schoenecker again. The Stars then went 5-for-6 from the floor to finish the half and led 37-21 at the break.
    Dominican led by as many as 25 early in the second half, but Lawrence rallied. The Vikings were down 68-49, but Lawrence went on a 10-3 run, capped by back-to-back 3-pointers by Nathan Valentine and Graham, to close the margin to 71-59 with 4:50 left. The Vikings left some points on the table as they missed six consecutive free throws during that stretch.
    Lawrence could get no closer than 12 points down the stretch as Dominican stretched the lead back to 20.