CEDAR RPAIDS, Iowa – The Luther Baseball team won its seventh straight to stay perfect in American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) play at 7-0 and 14-8 overall with a sweep of Coe by scores of 4-1 and 6-3. Nick Dufoe pitched a complete game picking his third win of the season in game one. In the second game of the doubleheader Aiden Michna broke the 2-2 tie with his single the put the Norse back on top en route to victory. 
 
GAME 1: Norse (4), Kohawks(1)
Luther brought in the first runs of the game thanks to runner on the base paths due to a walk. Noah Sebben (Moline, Ill. / Moline) hit a sac fly into right field and Stamp came home to score the first run for the Norse. Charlie Rubendall (Minneapolis, Minn. / DeLaSalle) reached on an error, stole second and advanced to third on wild pitch. With two outs Joshua Matanich RBI single giving Rubendall a chance to score.
 
The Luther defense and Nick Dufoe (Adel, Iowa / Adel-DeSoto-Minburn) on the mound kept the Kohawks off the board until the bottom of the fourth inning. Coe found a way to get one back but the Norse stopped the momentum to maintain the 2-1 lead.
 
After the response from the Kohawks the Norse put up two more runs in the top of the fifth. Sebben singled to the third base side. Then Rubendall reached first on an error from the shortstop putting runners in scoring position. Aiden Michna (Moline, Ill. / Moline) hit the first double of the game for Luther bringing the lead to 4-1.
 
Dufoe went the distance for the Norse pitching a complete game giving up seven hits, one walk, six strikeouts and only gave up one run in 32 batters faced. Luther wins game one of the double header 4-1.
 
GAME 2: Norse (6), Kohawks (3)
Just like the in the first game, the Norse got on the board first. With two outs and Sebben on second Michna lifted a single into left field to put Luther on top first. But in the bottom half of the inning Coe responded with a two-run home run for their first lead of the day.
 
Top of the third, Luther had two outs with a Sebben once again on second. This time Rubendall hit the RBI double the scored him for the games tying run. Rubendall advanced to third on the throw putting him in scoring position. Michna came up big with a single giving the Norse back the lead of 3-2.
 
Luther kept adding to their run total in the top of the fourth Gabe Atkins (Castle Pines, Colo. / Rock Canyon) the first batter up hit a solo home-run into left center field. Will Heithoff (Winterset, Iowa / Winterset) was walked and he had a stolen base to advance over to second. But with two outs Cullen Stamp (Plymouth, Minn. / Wayzata) was also walked as Heithoff advanced to third on the wild pitch. Stamp took off for second as Heithoff scurred home both reached safely on errors made by Coe. Luther now had a three-run lead over the Kohawks.
 
The Norse scored one run off of a single from Heihoff in the top of the sixth to extend the lead to 6-2. CJ Boudreaux (Humble, Texas / Atascocita) came in for Ryan Manternach (Monticello, Iowa / Monticello) in the bottom of the eighth. Despite giving up two walks that lead to a run for Coe, Boudreaux stopped any further runs from scoring with two strikeouts to end the inning.
 
Nolan Klocke (Hayfield, Minn. / Hayfield) came in to shut down any chance of a comeback by Coe. It was three up and three down as the Norse claimed victory by a score of 6-3. Luther improves to 14-8 overall and start the conference season 7-0.
 
TOP NORSE

• Nick Dufoe (Adel, Iowa / Adel-DeSoto-MInburn) pitched a complete game picking up his third win of the season.
• Aiden Michna (Moline, Ill. / Moline) had three hits with a double and four RBIs in both games.
• Gabe Atkins (Castle Pines, Colo. / Rock Canyon) hit his second home run of the season in game two against the Kohawks.  

UP NEXT
The Norse host Simpson College on Friday, April 7^th for the first of three games against the Storm. The first pitch will be at 3:00 p.m. CT in Decorah.
 
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