Coe College claimed its fourth American Rivers Conference tournament title on Saturday afternoon, defeating sixth-seeded Wartburg 10-6 at Veterans Memorial Stadium.
Aurora bounced back from a loss yesterday with a sweep of Penn State-Altoona. Elsewhere, Cal Lutheran needed comebacks to win twice but top ranked Washington University was unable to get a comeback of their own as they fell to Coe.
No. 18 Coe broke into the win column with a win over No. 2 Webster as they exit the Rhodes invitational 1-2. Dominican, Ithaca, and Johns Hopkins also scored their first wins of the season after dropping two to start the season.
Cortland broke out the bats to advance to the super regionals, W&J and Johns Hopkins secured spots next as the 16 team super regionals took shape. Concordia-Chicago extended their regional into Monday with a 14-13 win in extra innings over Baldwin Wallace.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - With a win in the first game of a doubleheader against Luther, the Coe baseball team clinched the 2019 American Rivers Conference regular season championship; the program's first conference title since 2011.
Coe and Concordia (Texas) are new to the Top 25 this week as Huntingdon and Cal Lutheran drop out. For the first time this year the top three teams remain the same with Concordia-Chicago remaining at number one.
Coe swept Wartburg in Head Coach Steve Cook's 500th win. With 500 wins, Cook is by far the winningest coach in Coe baseball history. Cook became the head coach in 1997 and posts a record of 500-432-1.
LINCOLN, Neb. - Coe brought out the bats in the first game then used a stellar pitching effort in game two to record a doubleheader sweep of Nebraska Wesleyan in American Rivers Conference baseball action in Lincoln.
Jacob Waddle has been named the new head coach at Illinois College, taking the place of the retired Jay Eckhouse as the man to lead the Blueboys into 2019 and beyond.
Simpson school officials announced the hiring of Nathan Roling as the next head coach of the Simpson Storm. Roling spent the last three seasons as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator at Loras College and prior to that at Coe .
With only one national champion in its history, the Division III Central Region may not fit the bill of a traditional baseball power. But what the region might lack in historical starpower, it makes up for in depth—the Central boasts close to a dozen teams with reasonable hopes of qualifying for the NCAA tournament this season.
Webster erupted for a five-spot in the fourth and made it stand up to beat Carthage and win the Central Regional, while UW-La Crosse scored four in the seventh and one in the ninth to force a second game, then rolled past Coe for the Midwest Regional win.
LA CROSSE, Wis. - A big six-run fourth inning sparked the Coe College baseball team on Friday night, as the Kohawks beat 20th-ranked Wisconsin-La Crosse 11-5 in the NCAA Midwest Regional.
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Seeded fifth in the region, the Coe College baseball team knocked off fourth-seeded St. John's 4-2 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.
Top-seeded and defending national champion UW-Whitewater headlines this regional, but several quality teams have the opportunity to emerge and make their way to the 2015 World Series.
An early grand slam by Wartburg didn't faze the Kohawks on Saturday, as they came back for a 12-7 win over the 14th-ranked Knights in the Iowa Conference Tournament Championship.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - After going without a run in the opener, Coe College won the finale in dramatic fashion with four home runs, including a walk-off home run.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Coe College swept Central College in a doubleheader on Friday, as the Kohawks won their eighth-straight game. It was the 400th win at Coe for Head Coach Steve Cook.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The oldest sport at Coe College added another mark in the history books on Saturday, as seniorConnor Alberhasky (Iowa City, Iowa/City) threw the third no-hitter in school history against Loras.
Loras won game one 7-2 of a doubleheader to give head coach Carl Tebon his 400th career win as the skipper of the Duhawks. Loras fell to Coe in game two 10-5..
Veteran assistant Matt Schirm was named the new head coach at Central College. Schirm, most recently an assistant at Wartburg College, will replace Adam Stevens.
Thiel got a walk-off and Coe's two run eighth in their opener with Luther was good enough for wins on Monday. Mike Massaro's eleventh inning single got Rhode Island a non-conference win.
Trey Martin, Nick Stein, and Tim Wilson repeat in the 2013 edition of the D3baseball.com preseason All-American team. The preseason honor role highlights 45 of the best players in the country.
McMINNVILLE, Ore. - There is no better time to be playing your best baseball of the season than the NCAA Tournament. After a first round loss, the Kohawks have won back-to-back games, beating La Verne 5-0 to advance to the final day of the NCAA Regionals.
McMINNVILLE, Ore. - The Coe College baseball team scored seven unanswered runs on Thursday, as they beat sixth-seeded St. John's 7-2 in an elimination game in the NCAA Regional Championships. Coe advances to the Friday's 5:30 p.m. central game with the win.
MCMINNVILLE, Ore. - The Coe College baseball team outhit 10th-ranked Trinity (Texas) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, but the Kohawks were 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position as they dropped the NCAA opener 2-0 to the Tigers.
For all of the pre-selection consternation that was expressed on the West Region message boards, the McMinnville Regional can be summed up , “the NCAA did it right”.
Coe junior Ben Strellner threw a complete-game six-hitter allowing one run to lead the Kohawks to the 2012 IIAC Tournament crown with a 4-1 victory over Buena Vista Saturday.