St. Louis, Mo., March 8, 2020 – The No. 1-ranked Washington University in St. Louis baseball team split a pair of games with Coe College Sunday to drop the three-game set with the Kohawks this weekend at Kelly Field in St. Louis.

WashU pounded out 13 hits in the 13-2 win in game one, and then the Kohawks scored eight unanswered runs in an 8-5 loss in the nightcap. 

WashU dropped to 8-2 with the split, while Coe fell to 3-3. 

#1 WashU 13, Coe 2 – Game One
Sophomore Tim Van Kirk went 4-for-5 with a run scored and four RBI from the nine-hole in the game one victory, while junior Collin Kahal was 3-for-5 with a pair of runs scored. Senior John Brinkman (2-4, run, RBI) and sophomore Caleb Durbin (2-3, two runs, two RBI) also had multi-hit games for WashU. 

Durbin led off the bottom of the first with a solo home run, and then Brinkman doubled to left to make it 2-1 after three innings. Van Kirk and Durbin provided RBI singles to make it 4-1 after four innings. 

The Bears put the game out of reach with nine runs in the seventh on three hits, and took advantage of three errors. Van Kirk hit his first home run, a three-run shot to right, to highlight the nine-run inning in which 14 Bears went to plate.

Junior Tim Tague (3-0) picked up the win allowing one hit and an earned run with four strikeouts in three innings in relief. Junior Ryan Loutos limited Coe to just one hit in four innings in his second start of the season.

Coe 8, #1 WashU 5 – Game Two
WashU jumped out to a 5-0 lead after three innings.

Junior Ty Dalinghaus and Durbin had RBI singles in the two-run second, and then senior Thomas Gardner had a two-RBI double and Dalinghaus added an RBI single up the middle in the three-run third inning.

Coe scored five runs in the fifth and two in the seventh to take the 7-5 advantage.

Dalinghaus was 3-for-4 with two RBI, while Brinkman was 2-for-5 was WashU had 10 hits.

WashU used five pitchers in the game-two loss, as sophomore Austin Sachen took the loss allowing two hits and two earned runs in 2 2/3 innings pitched. Sachen struck out four and walked three.

BEAR NOTEBOOK:
• Coe has won four of the last six meetings between the two teams
• The Bears did not commit an error in either game on Sunday
• Coe won the three-game series outscoring WashU 24-20

UP NEXT: WashU opens its five-game Spring Break trip against Washington & Jefferson on Tuesday, March 10, in Winter Haven, Fla.