CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Coe College baseball team won its opening round game in the American Rivers Conference 7-3 over Central College before falling to Buena Vista 2-0 in its second game. The Kohawks got off to a good start in the opener, getting 12 hits and seven RBI in the game to advance into the winner's bracket. In game two, BVU's Tyler Tennyson tossed a complete-game shutout while surrendering just six total hits. With the loss, Coe drops into the pod one loser's bracket of the tournament and will face the University of Dubuque tomorrow afternoon in an elimination game at 12 p.m. 
 
GAME 1 
COE 7 - CENTRAL 3 
Starting pitcher TJ Johnson got off to a good start in Coe's opening game of the A-R-C Tournament, working a 1-2-3 inning in the top of the first. The offense backed him up in the bottom of the inning, scoring two runs on a RBI double from TJ Deardorff which plated Jordan Kaplan and Johnson. The Kohawks added another run in the second inning as Isaac Evans delivered a two-out, RBI single to score Daniel Hawes and put Coe up 3-0. Johnson then pitched another 1-2-3 inning in the top of the third before leading off the bottom of the frame with a triple. Kaplan, who was Coe's next batter, delivered the fourth run of the game on a sacrifice fly to right-field. The Dutch struck in the top of the fourth inning, taking advantage of a rare mistake from Johnson as Trevor Kimm blasted a two-run homer over the left-field fence to cut the deficit to two. 
 
The Kohawks bounced back in the bottom of the inning as Johnson helped his own cause with a two-RBI single. Hawes, Evans and Riley LeGrand all reached with one out on three-straight walks to set the stage for Johnson, who delivered the RBI hit to center field to push the lead back to four. Coe got its final run of the opener in the bottom of the fifth inning as Matthew Schrader grounded out to third with runners on second and third, allowing Jacob Henry to score on the play. Johnson, who remained in the game until the eighth, surrendered one final run in the inning, on a passed ball. Kaplan then entered the game in the ninth inning and despite surrendering a lead-off single, the senior-righty ended the game with a double play and a fly-out.
 
GAME 2
BUENA VISTA 2 - COE 0
Game two starter, TJ Deardorff had a solid first inning of work despite allowing a single as the senior worked around the two out hit and retired the Beavers. Coe, which also got a one-out base runner in the bottom of the first inning, stranded the runner on a caught stealing which ended the inning. Both team's bats went cold for the next three innings as the score was 0-0 headed into the fifth but BVU got a clutch two-out single to score the opening two runs of the game. The Kohawks got another one-out base runner in the bottom of the inning on a bunt-single from Henry but a double-play ended the inning for Buena Vista. Coe threatened again in the bottom of the seventh and eight innings, putting runners in scoring position in both frames but Tennyson managed to work around the trouble and keep the Kohawks off the board. 
 
Up next: Coe will take on the University of Dubuque tomorrow in an elimination game at 12 p.m. 
 
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