WAVERLY, Iowa – The Coe College baseball team opened its weekend series at Wartburg Friday evening with a 4-2 victory, taking down the Knights to improve to 14-2 in the A-R-C. The Kohawks, riding the backs of top starter
Jack Walsh, bashed out 12 hits en route to the victory. Coe took a 1-0 lead in the second inning after an RBI triple from
CJ Johnson as the sophomore helped give Walsh the advantage. Wartburg scored in the fifth to tie the game, using a safety squeeze to make it 2-1 but a clutch inning-ending strikeout got him out of the jam. The Kohawks responded in the seventh with an RBI single from
Jon Wille and added two key insurance runs in the eighth as
Jake Brosius delivered a solo homer for 3-0 before an RBI single from
Jack Allison made it 4-2.
Tyce Johnson took the ball from Walsh in the eighth and despite allowing a run and three hits in the eighth, he settled down and stranded two runners in the inning before working a perfect 1, 2, 3 ninth with two strikeouts to earn the save.
COE 4 - WARTBURG 2
Game Facts
- Allison singled with one out and was driven home later in the frame by CJ Johnson, delivering an RBI triple to give Coe the lead. Wartburg evened the game a few innings later with some small ball, using a pair of singles before the squeeze play tied it at one. Coe regained its lead in the seventh and kept it for good, scoring with a two-out single from Wille as he drove home Will Hosch for 2-1. The insurance came in the top of the eighth, started by Brosius' solo blast to center and later followed by an RBI single from Allison. Tyce Johnson ran into trouble in the eighth, giving up three consecutive singles as Wartburg sliced the deficit to just two. He settled down to escape the jam, getting a fielder's choice and back-to-back strikeouts to end the inning. He proved dominant in the ninth, working an efficient 1, 2, 3 frame with a pair of strikeouts to earn the save.
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