DUBUQUE, Iowa -  The Coe College baseball team split a pair of games on Sunday afternoon with Loras College, winning 4-3 in game one while falling 10-0 in game two. The Kohawks took an early 4-0 lead in the opening game and got solid pitching from TJ Deardorff and Austin Divello, who worked the final inning of the game to close it out for Coe. Loras exploded in game two, using 18 hits to post 10 runs while defeating the Kohawks in just seven innings. The split earns the Kohawks a 3-1 series victory over the Duhawks as they move to 18-3 overall and 14-2 in the A-R-C while Loras goes to 12-8 and 9-7 in the league.
 
Game one starter TJ Deardorff moved to 4-0 on the season after pitching six innings in the opener. He scattered eight hits in the outing while allowing just three runs and striking out three. Deardorff, who surrendered just one walk in the game, remains undefeated on the season, joining teammates TJ Johnson and Matthew Mittelmark who are 7-0 and 4-0 respectively. 
 
GAME 1 
COE 4 - LORAS 3
The Kohawks and Duhawks played a scoreless opening inning but Tyce Johnson got Coe on the board with a two-RBI single in the second, plating Luke Smailes and TJ Johnson on the play. Deardorff, who started game one on the mound, then shut down the Duhawks in the third to give his offense another chance to shine. In the top of the third, Jordan Kaplan and Johnson picked up an RBI each, with Johnson doubling home Jacob Henry to end Coe's scoring for the game. Loras threatened in the fourth inning and mustered two runs off Deardorff, thanks to a two-RBI single but he worked his way around the jam with a line-out, double play to end the inning. The Duhawks got another run in the bottom of the fifth, as Luke Fennelly hit a two-out single to cut the deficit to just one run with two innings to play. Coe turned to Austin Divello following a scoreless sixth and top of the seventh, as the freshman came in and closed the door on the Duhawks, giving up just one hit in the inning. 
 
GAME 2 
LORAS 10 - COE 0
Loras jumped out to an early 5-0 lead in game two thanks to five runs in the second inning. During the rally, the Duhawks racked up six hits including two doubles and four singles in the inning. They added an additional run in the third inning on an RBI single as the Duhawk starting pitcher Marshall Rice went on to work six scoreless innings of three-hit baseball. Loras got four more runs, one in the sixth and three in the seventh to claim game two by run-rule. 
 
Up next: The Kohawks return to Cedar Rapids this week for a four game series with Simpson College on April 15 and 17 at Daniels Park. 
 
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