Coe College - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Coe softball team nipped by Luther

The Coe College softball team will have to win three straight games at Clark Field Sunday to capture the Iowa Conference Tournament, but there's a nice prize waiting for them even if they don't.

The ninth-ranked Kohawks have a 34-7 overall record and are considered a lock for an at-large berth to the NCAA Division III national tournament even if they do not get the league's automatic berth as the tournament champion.

Alise Miller broke up a pitcher's duel in the top of the eighth inning Saturday afternoon with a two-run homer to give 11th-ranked Luther a 2-0 victory over Coe in the winners bracket finals.

Arran Weeces of Coe and Becca Girvan of Luther matched goose-eggs for the first seven innings Saturday, sending the contest into extra innings.

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Coe's Gunderson 4th at IIAC golf

DUBUQUE - Tyler Gunderson of Coe finished fourth at the Iowa Conference men's golf tournament Saturday at the Dubuque Golf & Country Club with a 72-hole score of 301.

Gunderson missed finishing second by two strokes.

Eric Wolfe of Dubuque won the tournament at 4-over-par 288. Dubuque won the team championship for the first time since 1975.

Gunderson had rounds of 74, 73, 75 and 79 and was named all-conference for the third time. Coe finished sixth out of eight teams at 1,282.

COE: Tyler Gunderson 74-73-75-79=301, Derek Nicholson 80-83-80-77=320, Mitch Moon 79-80-81-82=322, Kyle Boardman 82-89-82-86=339, Zach Stafford

85-92-89-90=356.

No.9 Kohawks win tourney opener

Taylor Riedl hit her sixth home run of the season Friday as No.9 Coe clipped Simpson, 3-1, on the first day of the Iowa Conference softball tournament at Clark Field.

Coe (34-6) will face 10th-ranked Luther (28-6) in the winners bracket championship game Saturday at noon.

Maddison Woodruff (20-2) collected her 20th win of the season for the Kohawks. She tossed a 4-hitter with 11 strikeouts and no walks.

Simpson defeated Dubuque (8-0), Buena Vista upset No.14 Central (7-5) and Luther nipped Buena Vista (5-4) in the other games Friday.

Riedl went 2-for-3 for the Kohawks.

Iowa Conference softball meet delayed

Due to the high likelihood of inclement weather currently forecasted for Cedar Rapids for Thursday, the Iowa Conference Softball Tournament has been pushed back one full day.

The tournament, which determines the Iowa Conference's automatic qualifier for the 2014 NCAA Division III Softball Championship, will now be held Friday through Sunday at Clark Field on the Coe campus.

Other than the date changes, the tournament schedule remains unchanged. The tournament will begin Friday at 10 a.m. and Coe will play its first game at 2 p.m.