The Luther College baseball team was eliminated from the American Rivers Conference tournament this afternoon by Coe College. The Kohawks defeated the Norse 15-4 in seven innings. Coe tallied 16 hits and blew this game open with an eight run fourth inning that included a grand slam home run. Luther had nine hits and scored a run in the first, fourth, sixth and seventh frames. The loss gives Luther an overall record of 33-11. Coe improved to 29-13.
Noah Kindem,
Zach Gwost and
Ty Grewal all had two hits. Kindem,Tyurus Werner and
Hayden Torgerson were all credited with an rbi.Â
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This was the final game for a Luther team as a member of the Iowa Conference/American Rivers Conference. Luther, an original member of the Iowa Conference in 1922, will become a member of the Midwest Conference on July 1. Ironically, it was baseball that played the first intercollegiate game in Luther history in 1891 against St. Olaf College in Decorah. It was baseball that won the final conference title, its 14th in school history and first outright title since 1985, raising the school's total to 242 league titles.Â
