CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Coe College baseball team won in its opening game of the 2024 American Rivers Conference tournament, defeating the Loras College Duhawks 6-4 at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Coe fell behind early in the game as the Duhawks scored a run in the second and third innings, taking a 2-0 lead after two and a half. Coe responded with four in the home half of the inning, taking advantage of erratic pitching from the Duhawks.
Jake Brosius, Reid Rausch and
Ryan Thoreson all picked up RBI via free passes before
Jack Allison delivered a one-run single to take a 4-2 lead. Coe added a key insurance run in the fifth as
Creighton Kreshel drove home
Tyce Johnson with a two-out single. Loras cut the lead to one in the sixth to put pressure on the Kohawks but a run in the sixth gave Coe's staff enough room to work with over the final three innings.
Caden Richards earned his sixth win of the campaign, allowing four runs in five innings of work.
Trevor Morse and
Drew Osterman combined to finish the job out of the pen, allowing just four hits while striking out four hitters.
COE 6 - LORAS 4
Game Facts
- Loras put tallies on the board first in the second and third, getting a pair of RBI hits to grab the lead. Coe quickly responded in the third, getting four runs on two hits and numerous free passes. Austin Gomez started the rally with a one-out walk and was joined on base by Mitchell Eckardt and Jon Wille who singled and walked. Brosius brought home the first run with another walk before Rausch tied the game on a bases-loaded hit by pitch. Thoreson made it four straight free passes in the next at-bat, picking up an RBI to put Coe up 3-2. Allison came up clutch following a pitching change, singling up the middle to make it 4-2. The Kohawks added another insurance run in the fifth, getting a two-out single from Kreshel. Johnson began the two-out rally, doubling down the left-field line to set the table for Kreshel. Loras pulled two back in the following frame, getting a pair of leadoff hits to put pressure on Coe. The Duhawks scored a pair of runs with the rally, getting RBI on a ground out and foul out. Morse, who entered in relief of Richards, hung tough and kept Coe in front as he got an inning-ending flyout. Rausch came up clutch yet again in the bottom of the sixth, restoring Coe's multi-run lead with a two-out double to score Eckardt. Morse continued his strong relief effort in the seventh, working around a two-out hit to keep the lead at two. Loras got a leadoff single in the eighth but ran itself into trouble as the leadoff runner was eliminated on a strike em out throw em out to douse the fire. Osterman entered for the final out of the eighth and stayed in the game for the ninth, striking out a pair of hitters in the final frame to lock up the save.
Up Next: Coe is back in action tomorrow, Friday, May 10 for its next game of the tournament, taking on the winner of game four at 12 PM at Veterans Memorial Stadium.
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