CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Coe College baseball team picked up a 12-0 victory over Central College on Saturday, earning a series victory in the team's American Rivers Conference opening clash. The Kohawks continued to produce with the bats, racking up 14 hits and 12 runs in the dominant seven-inning victory.
Ethan O'Donnell surrendered just three hits en route to his second win of the season as the sophomore fanned six Dutch hitters and issued one free pass. Eight Kohawks registered a hit in the game with
Mitchell Eckardt and
Jake Brosius notching three each to lead the team. Eckardt,
Gavin Guns and
Tyler Bayless registered six of Coe's 10 RBI in the game, each finishing with a pair to pace the offense. Coe, which has won six of its last seven games, improves to 10-5 overall and 2-1 in the A-R-C while Central drops to 7-7 and 1-2 in the league.
COE 12 - CENTRAL 0 - 7 Innings
Game Facts
- Coe quickly took the lead for O'Donnell, scoring one run in the first inning on an RBI double from Brosius. O'Donnell worked another perfect frame in the second, giving his bats another chance. The Kohawks blew the game open in the home half, scoring five runs on six hits to extend their advantage. Tyce Johnson scored the opening run, scampering home on a wild pitch after a one-out single earlier in the inning. Eckardt picked up an RBI on his fifth double of the year, driving home Kaden Haller who reached with a single. Guns made it 4-0 in the next at-bat, singling to right for his first RBI of the contest. Bayless delivered the back-breaking hit three batters later, singling through the right side to plate Brosius and Guns while giving Coe a 6-0 lead.
- The offense padded the lead in the bottom of the third, adding three more runs on three hits. Haller registered his third RBI of the year to open the scoring, driving home Johnson with a single. Eckardt added another RBI in the next AB, picking up his first hit of the game with a single through the right side. Guns delivered the final RBI of the inning, producing a run-scoring groundout that allowed Haller to cross home yet again.
- Coe put the icing on the cake in the fifth and sixth innings, getting three runs to end any chances of a Central comeback. The Kohawks got two hits in the fifth and took advantage of a pair of Central errors, scoring on a sacrifice fly from Creighton Kreshel and an error from the Dutch defense. James VanHooser gave Coe its 12th and final run in the sixth, registering an RBI groundout to plate Johnson. O'Donnell, who was perfect until surrendering two hits in the fifth, returned to the mound in the seventh and worked a 1-2-3 inning to lock down the win for the Kohawks.
Up next: The Kohawks will return to conference action next weekend, hitting the road for the first time in conference play as they take on Wartburg in a three-game set on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1.
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