Coe takes two from Simpson in A-R-C play

INDIANOLA, Iowa – The Simpson College baseball team closed the weekend with a pair of losses to Coe. The Kohawks stifled a Storm comeback in the first game to win 7-5 and picked up a 4-0 victory in game three to sweep the season series.

Game 1: Coe 7, Simpson 5
The Kohawks (17-14, 9-9 A-R-C) took an early lead with a two-run double in the first and added another run on a sacrifice fly in the third. Bennett Wadstrom, who put Simpson on the board with an RBI double in the fifth, pulled the Storm within a pair with a two-run single to center field which made the score 5-3 going into the eighth inning.

Coe stretched its lead back out to four in the eighth with RBIs from Tyler Elliott and Creighton Kreshel. Although the Storm were able to match the two runs in the bottom half, the comeback stalled with a strikeout and the home team was held to one hit in the ninth.

Wadstrom was 3-for-4 with a career-high three RBIs.

Game 2: Coe 4, Simpson 0
The Kohawks scratched the scoreboard first on an RBI triple to left field off the bat off Kreshel, who finished the doubleheader with six hits, four RBIs and two runs scored. Elliot followed the triple with an RBI single and Coe added two more runs with base hits in the second and sixth frames.

The Storm struggled to string together offense and only managed three hits in the contest. Despite the Kohawks racking up 12 of their own, Simpson's defense limited the visitors to just four runs. Dallas Jackson struck out six in his 6.0 innings of work on the mound, while Mitchell Roeder added seven in the final three periods.

Up Next
Simpson will make its way to Storm Lake for its final road series of the year against Buena Vista, which sits atop the American Rivers Conference leaderboard with a 27-6 overall record and 18-2 mark against league foes.