CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Coe College football team defeated Buena Vista 27-13 on Saturday afternoon at Clark Field. The Kohawks cashed in with a touchdown on their opening possession of the game and tacked on an additional score to hold a 14-7 lead after one half. Halfway through the third quarter Coe took advantage of good field position after an interception and increased its lead to 20-7 with 4:35 left in the third. BVU cut into the Coe lead with an 11-yard touchdown pass with 9:29 left in the game but the Kohawks controlled the tempo and sealed the game with a score with 1:43 left on the clock. 
 
Coe is 4-2 overall and 3-1 in the American Rivers Conference. Buena Vista is 2-4 overall and 0-4 in the American Rivers conference. The Kohawks were led by Quentin White who threw for 232 yards and two touchdowns. The Beavers were led by Reyes Lara III who had 120 yards and one touchdown. 
 
Coe opened the game with a long touchdown drive that covered 75 yards over 18 plays. The seven minute drive was capped off by Colton White's seven-yard touchdown catch from Quentin White with just under eight minutes left in the first quarter. 
 
BVU ran nine plays on its opening drive but only picked up 24 yards prior to punting it back to Coe with 4:15 on the first quarter clock. The Kohawks took over for their second possession at their own three-yard line but they went three and out and punted the ball back to the Beavers. Buena Vista and Coe then went three-and-out on consecutive possessions prior to the end of the first quarter with the Kohawks leading 7-0 after 15 minutes.
 
Buena Vista retook control of the ball on its own 20-yard line after Evan Ellis' 62-yard punt flipped the field. The Beavers picked up a first down on second-and-14 as Dylan Laughlin found Jordan Travis beyond the sticks but the Coe defense forced a punt just four plays later. Coe took over on the BVU 39-yard line but a failed conversion on fourth down gave the ball back to the Beavers with 10:11 left in the first half. 
 
BVU ran five plays on its next drive, gaining just 12 yards prior to punting it back to Coe but the Kohawks went three-and-out on the ensuing possession. On the following drive Buena Vista ran six plays but failed to convert a third-and-six and punted back to Coe who took over on its own 43-yard line with 4:08 left in the half. White opened the drive with a 37-yard completion to Mitch Stopko on first down. Following an offside penalty on second-down by the Beavers, Cody Russell scored on a 13-yard rush to put the Kohawks up 14-0 with 2:31 left in the second quarter. 
 
BVU started on its own 25-yard line on the following possession but a 10-play drive that took just 2:19 off the clock ended with a touchdown pass to Jordan Travis as the Beavers cut the halftime deficit to 14-7. 
Buena Vista got the ball to start the second half but a quick three-and-out saw the Beavers punt it back to Coe with 13:35 left in the third. The Kohawks then put together an 11-play, 54-yard drive that ended in a failed fourth-down conversion at the Beaver one-yard line. BVU did well to move the ball out of its own end zone but an interception from Brian Robertson gave the ball back to Coe at the 35-yard line of the Beavers with 7:15 remaining in the third quarter. Coe would cash in with a six-play touchdown drive that saw Quentin White hook up with Colton White for a six-yard score that put the Kohawks ahead 20-7.
 
The Beavers took over on the Coe 45-yard line after penalties forced the Kohawks to kick from their own 15-yard line. Despite the good field position, BVU immediately turned the ball over as AJ Christensen came up with the second interception of the afternoon for Coe with 4:07 left in the quarter. The Kohawks managed to pick up one first down on the following drive but had to punt it back to the Beavers with just over one minute to play in the third. 
 
Buena Vista ran four plays on the opening drive of the fourth quarter but were forced to punt it back to Coe after just one first down. The Kohawks took over on their own 22-yard line and went three-and-out before punting back to BVU with 13:55 to play. The Beavers then put together an 11-play, 73-yard touchdown drive that was capped off by an 11-yard pass from Lara III to Josh Lange. 
 
Coe took over on its own 27-yard line with 9:19 left in the game and despite two first downs, punted it back to BVU just over two minutes later. The Beavers regained possession on their own 20-yard line but a quick three-and-out saw the Kohawks retake control of the ball with 5:51 to play. Coe then ripped off a seven-play, 67-yard touchdown drive that took just over four minutes of the game clock to secure the victory. Four of the seven plays on the drive were runs including the one-yard touchdown run from Tyler Dralle. 
 
Next Up: The Kohawks will hit the road next week for a matchup with Nebraska Wesleyan at 1 p.m. in Lincoln. Coe has won three-straight games against the Prairie Wolves dating back to 2016 when NWU joined the conference. 
 
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