ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Coe College baseball team split a doubleheader at WashU on Sunday, dropping the opener 6-3 before picking up its first win of 2024 with a 14-7 victory in game two. The Bears jumped ahead in the opening game of the day, scoring a pair of runs in the second inning on a two-out two-RBI hit. The Kohawks answered in the middle portion of the game, tying the game with a run in the fourth and fifth inning. WashU regained a two-run lead in the bottom of the inning on a Kohawk error and never looked back, adding two more insurance runs in the sixth to ensure the victory. Coe's offense came to life in the final game of the series, tallying 19 hits and 14 runs in its first win of the year. The Kohawks scored once in the first and four times in the second to jump ahead. WashU got back into the game with two in the bottom of the second but three Kohawk runs in the fifth inning gave the visitors a comfortable lead which they held for the remainder of the contest.
Jack Allison and
Kevin Lamb each went yard in the victory, recording their first homers of the season while
Reid Rausch was 5-of-5 with two doubles, a triple and a single.
GAME ONE
(RV) WASHU 6 - COE 3
Game Facts
- WashU got on the board first in game one, scoring two runs in the second inning thanks to a pair of base knocks. The Kohawks got back into the game a few innings later, using a two-out walk from Creighton Kreshel and ground-rule double from Rausch to put their first run on the board. Freshman Austin Gomez tied the game later in the fifth, delivering a two-out pinch-hit homerun to right-center for his first collegiate dinger. WashU immediately regained a lead in the bottom of the fifth, scoring both runs on an error just three batters in. Coe got its final run in the top of the sixth again off the bat of Rausch as this time he doubled to right-center, driving home Kreshel who had singled earlier in the frame. The Bears added two insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth and eliminated any further comeback chances, getting an RBI triple before a sacrifice fly made it 6-3.
GAME TWO
COE 14 - (RV) WASHU 7
Game Facts
- Coe immediately put its offensive struggles to bed in the second game of the day, getting a pair of two-out base runners from Kreshel who delivered the opening run with a single to center. Starting pitcher Ethan O'Donnell set the Bears down in order in the first and turned it back to the bats which added more to the Coe total. The Kohawks racked up four runs on four hits in the second and took advantage of a key WashU error. Rausch began the rally with another double before moving to third on a failed pickoff. Kaden Haller then drove him home to make it 2-0, flying out to left for a sacrifice fly. Allison provided the biggest blast of the inning three batters later, smashing a three-run homer to left field to put Coe ahead 5-0. WashU immediately responded with its own homer in the home half of the second, getting the first runner on before a two-run blast cut Coe's lead to three. The Kohawks regained a comfortable lead in the top of the fifth, again recording four hits in the inning for three runs. Kreshel and Ryan Thoreson led off with back-to-back singles before Coe's left fielder scored on a failed back pick of Thoreson at first. Rausch continued his impressive afternoon later in the inning, driving home Thoreson on a triple down the right field line. Haller ended the scoring in the inning in the next at-bat, driving home Rausch with a single to center. The Kohawks added two more runs in the top of the seventh on a pair of RBI doubles as Lamb and Rausch combined to make it 10-2. The visitors piled on four more runs before the end of the game, getting three in the eighth and one in the ninth. Kreshel and Lamb were again the RBI men for Coe in the eighth, picking up a one-run double and two-run homer respectively. Joey Sartain got the final RBI of the game for the Kohawks in the ninth, reaching on a fielder's choice as Jon Wille scored from third. WashU scored three times in the bottom of the ninth despite just one hit, inching closer thanks to a pair of Kohawk errors.
Up next: Coe continues its road trip to open the regular season next weekend in Decatur, Illinois, taking on Millikin University in a three-game set with a single contest and Saturday, March 2 and a doubleheader on Sunday, March 3.
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