DUBUQUE, Iowa - The Coe College baseball team stayed hot with its 10th straight win on Friday evening, defeating the Loras College Duhawks 12-2 in eight innings. The Kohawk offense continued its impressive form as of late, bashing out 20 hits including a perfect 4-for-4 night for
Ryan Thoreson. The Kohawk catcher laced an RBI double in the second to start the scoring and belted a three-run homer in the top of the third inning to put Coe up 6-0, a lead it never surrendered.
Caden Richards picked up his fourth win of the year thanks to another strong outing, allowing just two earned runs in 5.2 innings.
Trevor Morse worked the final seven outs of the game in relief of Richards, allowing just two hits and two walks in a scoreless effort. Thoreson was one of seven Kohawks to record multi-hit games, joined by
Jon Wille, Jake Brosius, Jack Allison, Tyce Johnson, Creighton Kreshel and
Austin Gomez.
COE 12 - LORAS 2 - 8 INNINGS
Game Facts
- Allison led Coe's second inning off with a single and was immediately driven home on Thoreson's double. Johnson sacrificed himself in the following AB and pushed Thoreson to third before Kreshel drove him home with a sacrifice fly to right. Coe's lead grew in the next frame, getting a one-out double from Wille and an RBI single from Brosius. Thoreson delivered the hammer blow three batters later with two strikes, smashing a three-run bomb over the right-field fence for his first homer of the year. The Kohawks scored again in the fourth, pushing two more across the plate on RBI hits from Gomez and Wille, extending the lead to 8-0. Kreshel made it 9-0 in the fifth, picking up another sacrifice fly as Coe scored for the fourth-straight inning. Loras got a run back in the fifth and sixth innings, closing the gap to seven with little time remaining. Coe slammed the door on any comeback attempt in the top of the eighth, capping off the offensive outburst with three runs on four hits. Allison picked up the first RBI with a single to center before Johnson drove home two runs with a single to right. Morse walked the leadoff runner in the eighth but quickly got a double-play ball before ending the game with a flyout to left.
Up Next: Coe is back in action tomorrow, April 20, for the final two games of the three-game series with Loras at 1 PM.
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