CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – The second-seeded Coe College baseball team opened the American Rivers Conference tournament with a 7-2 victory over third-seeded Luther College Thursday evening at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Sophomore starting pitcher
Jack Walsh was excellent for the Kohawks, tossing a complete game while allowing just five hits and two runs. The Dubuque native fanned a career-high 13 Norse hitters in his sixth win of the season and was backed up by his offense which had eight hits and RBI from four different players. Luther squandered an early 1-0 lead as Coe answered back with runs in the fourth and sixth innings on RBI from
Jack Allison and
Jake Brosius.
Austin Gomez added one in the seventh before Allison and
CJ Johnson broke the game open with back-to-back RBI hits as Johnson delivered a bases-loaded three-run double to cap off the explosion. Walsh returned for the ninth and gave up his second run of the game but bounced back with a pair of game-ending strikeouts. Coe advances to the winner's bracket and will face top-seeded Buena Vista tomorrow afternoon at 12 PM.
COE 7 - LUTHER 2
GAME FACTS
- Coe fell behind in the second inning as Luther used a leadoff double and two-out single to jump ahead. The Kohawks did damage with two gone in the fourth as Allison picked up his first RBI of the game, driving home Tyce Johnson who was hit earlier in the frame. Jake Brosius gave Coe the lead two innings later in the sixth, driving home Jon Wille on a sacrifice fly after his leadoff triple started a rally. The Kohawks added an insurance run in the seventh on an RBI single from Gomez but an inning-ending double play got Luther out of any further trouble as Coe led 3-1. The offense helped Walsh even more in the eighth, using three hits and leadoff hit batter to add four runs. Wille and Brosius reached before moving up on a sacrifice bunt from Tyce Johnson. Ryan Thoreson was hit to load the bases for Allison who drove home the first run of the inning with a single to center. CJ Johnson brought the hammer down in the next at-bat, clearing the bases with a double to right-center for 7-1. Walsh went back to work in the ninth and despite allowing the second run of the game, the righty buckled down and got back-to-back strikeouts to close the door on the Norse.
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