EUREKA, Ill. -- The Lawrence University softball team swept a nonconference doubleheader from Eureka College on Sunday at Sweitzer Field.
    Mattigan Haller hit a grand slam as Lawrence won the opener 11-3 in five innings, and the Vikings pulled away late for a 9-4 victory in the nightcap.
    In the first game, Haller went 2-for-3 with a grand slam and a double, drove in five runs and scored twice. Jordan Wallin-Swanson went 4-for-4 with a run scored and a run driven in for the Vikings (2-4. 
    Georgia Sedlack went the distance for the Vikings to pick up her first collegiate win. She allowed three runs on five hits, struck out eight and walked two.
    Lawrence trailed 3-1 when the Vikings exploded for 10 runs in the fifth inning. 
    Haller started that inning with a walk and later scored on Wallin-Swanson's single. Kourtney Mercer later drew a bases-loaded walk, and a wild pitch plated another run. Avery Chilson smacked a run-scoring double, and Zoe Doherty drew a bases-loaded walk to bring home another run. Haller then blasted a grand slam to center field to put the Vikings up 11-3. 
    Sedlack worked around a walk to retire the Red Devils (0-2) in the bottom half of the fifth to close out the game via the run rule.
    In the nightcap, the Vikings put bookends on the game with four runs in the first inning and four more in the seventh.
    Taylor Hughes went 2-for-3 with her first career homer, drove in two runs and scored twice to lead the Lawrence offense. Janessa Gonzalez went 2-for-3 with a run scored, and Mercer went 2-for-4 with a double.
    Kylan Arndt picked up her first win for the Vikings by tossing 2.1 innings of scoreless relief. She allowed two hits, struck out four and didn't walk a batter.
    Lawrence grabbed a 4-0 lead in the top of the first with the big hit coming on Arndt's run-scoring double. The Vikings made it 5-0 when Hughes led off the third inning with a home run. 
    Eureka rallied for one run in the third and three more in the fourth to cut the lead to 5-4. It stayed that way until the top of the seventh.
    Gonzalez started the inning with a single, and Doherty walked and Haller was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Wallin-Swanson delivered a two-run single for a 7-4 lead. A wild pitch scored Haller, and Ava Pilgrim groundout scored Wallin-Swanson for a five-run lead.
    Sedlack came in to pitch the bottom of the seventh and worked around a lead-off single to seal the win.