APPLETON, Wis. -- Chris Clouthier tossed his first career shutout in the opener, and Frank Forseth hit a dramatic homer to rally the Lawrence University baseball team in the nightcap, as the Vikings swept Carroll College 10-0 and 4-3 on Thursday at Whiting Field.
Clouthier scattered six hits over seven innings in the first game of the Midwest Conference doubleheader. He struck out two and walked two to improve to 3-5 on the season.
Lawrence (10-19, 5-9 MWC) gave Clouthier all the offense he would need in the bottom of the first when Tommy Schmidt's double scored Billy Bodle, who also had doubled.
Lawrence added two more runs in the third on Ben Webster's two-run homer, his second of the season. The Vikings scored three more times in the fifth, highlighted by Forseth's two-run single, to go up 6-0.
The Vikings added a run in the sixth on Schmidt's solo homer and then forced an early end to the game on the 10-run rule by scoring three times in the seventh. Evan Neuens' infield single scored a run, and Webster later walked with the bases loaded to force in another run. Schmidt's base hit scored Tim O'Toole to make it 10-0.
Schmidt went 4-for-4 in the opener with three runs batted in to pace Lawrence's 14-hit attack. Hawk Haiduke added three hits and Webster had two.
In the nightcap, the Vikings had to battle against Carroll starter Cody Alf, who wiggled out of several big jams early in the game.
Lawrence took a 1-0 lead in the second on Bodle's run-scoring groundout, but Carroll tied it with an unearned run against Kevin Kangas in the third. Carroll went up 2-1 in the fourth, but Lawrence tied it in the bottom half of the inning on Webster's RBI single.
Carroll (7-23, 1-13) got the lead back in the top of the seventh when a single and a pair of errors translated into a run for the Pioneers and a 3-2 edge.
Lawrence put together the game-winning rally in the bottom of the eighth. Alf hit Haiduke with a pitch to start the inning, and Tim Salm bunted the runner over to second. Forseth followed with his first career homer, a towering shot to left field, to put Lawrence up 4-3.
Kangas, who struck out nine and walked three, set the Pioneers down in order in the ninth, including striking out Jimmy Marlin looking to end the game. Kangas, who improved to 4-3, now has 71 strikeouts on the season, three shy of breaking Aaron Sorenson's school season record of 73.
Lawrence returns to action Saturday when it faces Carroll in a 1:00 p.m. doubleheader at Frame Park in Waukesha.