STORM LAKE, Iowa -  The Coe College baseball team took two games at Buena Vista on Thursday, winning in dramatic fashion in game one, 4-3, while exploding for a season-high 15 hits and 12 runs in game two. After falling behind 4-1 in game one, Coe scored four runs in the top of the seventh inning to take the lead which it kept thanks to the arm of Austin Divello in the bottom of the frame. The Kohawk bats then bashed 15 hits in game two including two doubles and a two-run home run from TJ Deardorff as the senior finished with four RBI in the game. The wins extend Coe's winning streak to eight-straight as it improves to 13-2 overall and 9-1 in the A-R-C while Buena Vista falls 8-7 and 6-4 in the league. 
 
On the day, Coe finished with 20 total hits as Jacob Henry led the way with four in the two games. After one hit in the opener, Deardorff posted two more and three runs in the second game. Riley LeGrand and TJ Johnson joined Henry with three-hit performances in the night-cap as Johnson added two RBI. Tyler Riebhoff earned the win in game two, pitching four innings while allowing just one earned run. The junior struck out four Beavers and surrendered just two hits. Game one starter TJ Johnson earned the win despite 12 hits as he limited the damage to just four runs across his six innings of work. 
 
GAME 1 
COE 5 - BVU 4
The Kohawks took the early lead in the opener, as Creighton Kreshel singled home Deardorff to put them up 1-0. Following a scoreless third and top of the fourth, BV exploded, pushing four runs across in the frame while picking up four hits. Both offenses went quiet for the next few innings until Coe's last chance in the top of the seventh. After a pop-out to lead off the frame, three-straight hitters reached for the Kohawks as Jared White, Kreshel, Jordan Kaplan and Tyler Elliott reached safely to push two runs across. Three batters later, with the bases loaded, LeGrand put the ball in play and reached on an error, which allowed two more runs to score, giving Coe the 5-4 lead. After a strikeout to end the inning, Divello came in and worked a 1-2-3 bottom of the seventh to secure the save and victory for Coe. 
 
GAME 2 
COE - BVU 
Coe picked up right where it left off in game one, scoring four runs in the top of the first inning to take a commanding lead. After a lead-off fly-out, Henry and LeGrand hit back-to-back singles which were later followed by a two-RBI single from Deardorff. Kreshel kept the rally going with a single as he and Deardorff would score the third and fourth runs of the frame on a hit by pitch and a walk. BV responded in the bottom of the second to get one run back and then the teams traded scores in the third. Coe extended its lead in the fourth inning as Johnson doubled home Deardorff and LeGrand but a pair of BVU runs in the bottom of the fifth kept the Beavers in striking distance. The Kohawks continued to put runs on the board in the sixth, getting RBI from White and James VanHooser to put them in from 10-4. After one run in the bottom of the inning from BV, Deardorff homered, his first of the season, scoring Henry while putting the game out of reach. 
 
Up next: The Kohawks finish the series with the Beavers on Saturday with a two-game set beginning at 1:00 p.m. in Storm Lake. 
 
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