GREEN BAY, Wis. – Cornell starting right-hander Jake Schope helped deliver an important 6-2 bounce-back win in Game 2 Friday night over defending Midwest Conference champion Lawrence at Capital Credit Union Park.
 
Lawrence outlasted the Rams in a four-plus hour opening game, 9-8 in 12 innings.
 
The Rams (11-8 overall, 3-3 MWC) and Vikings (6-12 overall, 2-5 MWC) are scheduled to play Game 3 of the series at 9 a.m. Saturday in Green Bay, Wis.
 
Schope and Patrick Montagna combined on a four-hitter in the second game. Schope (4-1) yielded just three hits and one run over six innings for his team-high fourth victory of the season. Montagna fired three efficient innings of one-hit ball to record his third save.
 
Darren Mancke went 3-for-5 to lead Cornell's 11-hit attack. Kale Rose singled, doubled and scored twice. Drew Logel, who went 2-for-4, provided an RBI single in Cornell's three-run second inning that was enough to carry the Rams the rest of the way.
 
Cornell catcher Colin Konicek threw out two base runners in Game 2, and caught three Vikings stealing for the day.
 
The lengthy first game saw the Rams rally for four runs in the top of the ninth inning – triggered by a bases-loaded triple from Rose – to take an 8-6 lead. The Vikings tied it at 8-8 on a two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the ninth.
 
Lawrence won it in the bottom of the 12th, scoring an unearned run on a throwing error with two outs and the bases loaded.  
 
Rose went 2-for-5 with a run and four RBIs. James Kent homered, singled and drove in a run. Konicek added two RBIs.
 
Starting pitcher Kole Hinrichsen (3-1) passed Casey Korn (2006-09) for third place on Cornell's career strikeouts list with 178. The senior fanned nine Vikings and allowed three runs through six innings. Hinrichsen has an MWC-best 53 strikeouts this season.
 
The Vikings outhit the Rams in the nightcap, 16-8. The teams combined to leave 24 runners on base.