MOUNT VERNON, Iowa -- The Lawrence University baseball team put together a big offensive outburst on Saturday in a Midwest Conference doubleheader sweep of Cornell College at Ash Park.
    Lawrence won the opener 13-6 and then rallied from a five-run deficit to take the nightcap 19-6 in eight innings. Lawrence (14-6, 6-0 MWC) swept the three-game series from the Rams (9-9, 1-5) and scored 45 runs in the three contests.
    In the first game, Lawrence pulled away after the teams were tied 2-2 after the opening inning. 
    Lawrence's Parker Knoll went 3-for-4 with two homers, drove in four runs and scored three times. Nick Heerde went 2-for-5 with a homer and a double, drove in four runs and scored a run. Jacob Charon continued his hot streak with another homer for the Vikings.
    Nick Katz went six innings, allowed nine hits and two runs while striking out two and walking none to get the win for the Vikings.
    Lawrence scored twice in the first on Knoll's run-scoring single and a Charon run-scoring groundout. Knoll gave Lawrence the lead for good when he smacked a two-run homer in the third. After Edan Perez singled, Charon hit a two-run homer for a 6-2 lead. 
    The Vikings tacked on three more runs in the seventh on Heerde's two-run double and a Zach Leslie sacrifice fly for a 9-2 advantage. Lawrence added a run in the eighth, and Heerde belted a two-run homer and Knoll hit a solo shot in a three-run ninth inning.
    Lawrence trailed 6-1 after two innings in the second game but broke the game open in the final three innings.
    Charon went 5-for-5 with two homers, four runs batted in and four runs scored. Taylor Freeman went 3-for-6 for the Vikings with seven RBIs and three runs scored. Freeman's seven RBIs ties the third-highest game total in school history. 
    Perez went 2-for-5 with two doubles, three RBIs and two runs scored, and Leslie went 2-for-4.
    Elden Santana went five innings and allowed three hits while striking out four and walking six to pick up the win. Nate Leonard pitched three hitless innings with two strikeouts and a walk to pick up the save.
    Lawrence got its comeback started in the fourth when Charon led off the inning with a homer to cut the lead to 6-2. The Vikings then tied it in the fifth with four runs. Nathan Depew got the fifth started with a double, and Freeman smashed a two-run homer to cut the lead to 6-4. Knoll followed with a double and Perez followed with a run-scoring double. Charon singled to score Perez and the game was tied 6-6.
    The Vikings grabbed the lead with three runs in the sixth. Freeman delivered a two-run double, and Knoll had a run-scoring groundout for a 9-6 lead. 
    Lawrence picked up a run in the seventh and then busted the game open with nine runs in the eighth inning. Perez got the scoring started with a two-run double, and Charon blasted a two-run homer. The Vikings had the bases loaded later in the inning when Freeman smacked a three-run double for an 18-6 lead. Freeman then stole third and scored on an error for the final margin.
    Lawrence returns to action on Tuesday when it hosts Ripon College in a doubleheader at Don Hawkins Field.