CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – The Coe College baseball team opened its final home series of 2025 with a dramatic ending, defeating Loras College 11-8 in walk-off fashion as
CJ Johnson delivered a game-winning three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning. Johnson played the hero after Coe entered the ninth inning down one but an RBI single from
Jack Allison set the stage for Johnson who blasted his first homer of the season to win the game. Early in the contest, sophomore starter
Jack Walsh was dealing, allowing two unearned runs through six innings while striking out a career-high 10 hitters. The offense backed up Walsh with five runs before his exit in the sixth but Loras charged back late. The Duhawks scored twice in the sixth, four times in the seventh and twice in the ninth to take their first lead at 8-7 and put pressure on the Kohawks. Allison and Johnson completed the comeback in the bottom of the ninth, following strong at-bats from
Tyce Johnson and
Ryan Thoreson that saw both hitters reach.
Evan Bender, who entered for the final three outs of the top of the ninth, earned the victory for his second win of the year.
COE 11 - LORAS 8
Game Facts
- Tyce Johnson brought home the game's first run, driving home Jake Brosius in the bottom of the third inning. Will Hosch extended the lead in the fourth inning, belting a two-run homer to left to plate CJ Johnson and make it 3-0. The Kohawks scored for the third consecutive inning in the fifth as Thoreson drove home a pair of runners with a two-out single to extend the advantage to 5-0. Loras answered in the top of the sixth, pulling back two runs with a two-run single but a fielder's choice kept Coe's lead at 5-2. Jon Wille restored a four-run advantage for Coe in the bottom of the sixth, flaring a run-scoring double to right to plate Evan deVally. Loras exploded with four runs in the top of the seventh to tie the game, leading off the inning with a solo homer before an error and two sacrifice flies tied it at six. The Kohawks immediately took the lead back in the bottom of the seventh, using a leadoff double from Tyce Johnson and a sacrifice fly from Allison to make it 7-6. Loras flipped the game in the ninth after a scoreless eighth, taking its first lead of the game two batters in with a double and a two-run homer to left. Coe stepped up to the plate under the pressure in the ninth, getting a one-out walk from Tyce Johnson before Thoreson reached on a defensive miscue. Allison drove home the tying run in the next at-bat with a laced single to center before Johnson ended the game in style, drilling a three-run homer to right center to clinch the victory.
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