(LAWRENCE ATHLETICS) 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.
Women
Simpson 69, Lawrence 50
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Lawrence University women’s basketball team went ice cold in the second half Saturday and dropped a 69-50 nonconference decision to Simpson College in the Daytona Beach Shootout at the Ocean Center.
Lawrence (7-4) shot just 16.7 percent from the floor (5-30) in the second half, including 0-for-10 from 3-point range. The Vikings had been rock solid in the first half as they went 15-for-32 (46.9 percent) from the field in the opening 20 minutes.
Charlotte Brennan was the only Lawrence player in double figures with 10 points. She added five rebounds and htree assists. Sophie Morey had nine points, five rebounds and three assists for the Vikings, and Taylor Svoboda came off the bench to score eight points as she went 4-for-6 from the field.
Lawrence jumped out to a 15-4 lead, capped by Svoboda’s layup, to start the game. Simpson had closed that advantage to 19-18 by the end of the first quarter. The teams traded the lead in the second, and Tanner Bost’s 3-pointer staked Lawrence to a 35-30 lead at the half.
After Olivia Kesti’s three-point play trimmed Simpson’s lead to 42-40 midway through the third quarter, Simpson took over. The Storm went on an 11-3 run and led 53-43 after three quarters. Simpson got the first basket of the fourth quarter and slowly pulled away from that point.
Molly Lutmer scored a game-high 21 points for Simpson (6-6).
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