CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – The Coe College Softball team ripped off seven wins in a row to end its Florida trip last weekend, setting the table for a home-opening series against Monmouth College this Saturday, March 28. The Kohawks dropped their opening game to no. 7 East Texas Baptist 5-0 and answered with victories over Fredonia, Old Westbury, Amherst, Hartwick, UW-Stout, Babson, and McDaniel. Coe's first win featured a two-hit shutout from
Devan Baggett and three RBI from
Maddie Harris before a day off. The Kohawks came back with an 11-1 win over Old Westbury with the bats backing up
Morgan Hewitt, who pitched six strong innings in the circle. Coe started its next day with another big win, claiming a 10-1 win over Amherst that featured a dominant outing from
Natalie Hitt and multi-RBI games from
Keirah Wiseman, Hewitt, and
Jessica Meisinger. The bats stayed hot with a 12-2 win over Hartwick, with six players recording RBI to support Baggett and
Isabella Yell, who paired together in the circle. The Kohawks scored a season-high 16 runs two days later, totaling 14 hits as Hitt recorded three RBI while allowing just two runs in five innings pitched. Hitt was even more dominant to start Coe's final day of the trip, tossing seven scoreless innings in a 2-0 win over Babson.
Irelynd Cejka and Hitt recorded the RBI for Coe to set the table for a perfect end. The Kohawk bats finished off the Florida swing on a high note, scoring 10 in a shutout win over McDaniel.
Grace McCarty, Harris, Hitt,
Marisa Vodicka, and
Taylor Drayfahl all had a pair of RBI in the victory to cap off the trip. Coe hit .351 on the trip as a team with a .488 slugging percentage, led by Hitt and
Maddie Harris, who hit .700 and .480, respectively. In the circle, Hewitt, Hitt, and Bagget each recorded multiple wins while the freshman's 0.00 ERA in 11 innings led the team.
GAME ONE
NO. 7 EAST TEXAS BAPTIST 5 - COE 0
- Coe left two runners on in the top of the first, getting a walk and a single to start the game before three-straight outs. East Texas grabbed the lead in the third inning, scoring four times with a double and a single before two more runs scored on a defensive miscue from Coe. Coe got one base runner in the top of the seventh on a single from Cejka, but ETBU ended the game with a strikeout.
GAME TWO
COE 6 - FREDONIA 0
- Cejka opened the scoring with a little league homer, tripling before advancing home on a throwaway. Vodicka and Harris added run-scoring hits in the third and fourth innings to extend the lead before an RBI bunt from Decman made it 5-0. Harris ended the scoring with another RBI knock, driving home Decman with a double to left center.
GAME THREE
COE 11 - OLD WESTBURY 1
- Westbury scored its lone run in the top of the first, getting a sacrifice fly for a 1-0 lead. The Kohawks responded with three in the second with an RBI single from Meisinger and an error that scored two. A two-run homer from Cejka in the third made it 5-1 before the Kohawks piled on five more. Hewitt allowed just one hit after the first, striking out seven batters in total.
GAME FOUR
COE 10 - AMHERST 1
- Coe scored twice in the top of the second on a passed ball and a wild pitch. RBI hits from Wiseman in the fourth and sixth innings made it a 4-0 lead, setting the table for Coe's big inning in the sixth that put the game away. Katelyn Bladecki, Hewitt, and Meisinger all picked up RBI during the explosive inning, giving Hitt plenty of insurance in the circle.
GAME FIVE
COE 12 - HARTWICK 2
- Coe racked up 11 hits against Hartwick, scoring six runs in the bottom of the first to erase an early 1-0 deficit. Meisigner, Hadyn Shoots, Harris, and Cejka all picked up RBI in the second inning, giving the Kohawks a 6-1 lead after two. A pair of three-run innings in the third and fourth put the game away for good, while Baggett handed the ball to Yell for the final three outs in the fifth.
GAME SIX
COE 16 - UW-STOUT 2
- The Kohawks opened the game with two in the top of the first, getting RBI from Cejka and Hitt for the lead. The Blue Devils got one back in the second, but an explosive eight-run fourth made it a laugher. Wiseman, McCarty, Hitt, Hewitt, and Drayfahl all got RBI in the inning, helping establish a 12-1 advantage through four. Cejka, Vodicka, and Brooke Peterman rounded out the scoring for Coe in the fifth, adding four more runs to pad the victory.
GAME SEVEN
COE 2 - BABSON 0
- Hitt was dominant in the first game of the final day, tossing seven scoreless innings where she allowed just six hits. The junior also added the opening RBI in the fourth with a double to left-center, before a run-scoring single from Cejka in the sixth made it a 2-0 victory.
GAME EIGHT
COE 10 - MCDANIEL 0
- Coe struck early in the final game, scoring once in the first and nine times in the second. An RBI for Harris in the first made it 1-0 before Drayfahl, McCarty, Harris, Hitt and Vodicka combined for a nine-spot in the second. Hewitt tossed a five-inning no-hitter to cap off the trip in style, recording five strikeouts and just one walk in the near-perfect performance.
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