APPLETON, Wis. - Ripon's softball team lost both games of Thursday's doubleheader at Lawrence, falling 5-0 in game one, before losing the nightcap 9-1 in five innings.

Lawrence (9-15, 6-4 MWC) took an early lead in game one, scoring on a home run to left field by Ceara Larson in the bottom of the first. All the other runs in the game came in the bottom of the third when Lawrence added four more on two hits. They would score two of those runs on another homer from Larson, while their other runs would score on an RBI groundout and on an error.

Ripon (7-23, 2-10 MWC) finished the game with six hits from six different players. Lexi Reetz (7-8) suffered the hard-luck loss, allowing just one earned run in her 13th complete game of the season. She also struck out five batters, moving into second place in school history for career strikeouts with 452, which is 46 shy of the school record.

In the day's second game, Ripon struck first with a run in the top of the second on an RBI doubles off the bat of Teara Morgenroth, scoring Claire Luebke from second base. Lawrence would tie things up with a run in the bottom of that frame, before adding five more runs in the third to take the lead. They would add three more in the fifth to end the game in five innings.

Ripon's two hits came from Reetz and Morgenroth. Reetz (7-9) started the game and struck out two batters in two innings.

The Red Hawks will be in action again on Saturday when they'll host Beloit College in a doubleheader at 1 p.m., which will also serve as Senior Day, honoring Morgenroth, Reetz, and Emily Kollmann. Those games can be seen live at https://portal.stretchinternet.com/ripon/.