Coe College - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Porter kills Kohawks with 11 3's

Eric Porter and his teammates from Lake Forest College felt comfortable shooting the ball at Eby Fieldhouse when they practiced in the old gym at Coe on Friday.

Porter came back Saturday and fell in love with the place.

Porter tossed in eleven 3-pointers and poured in 37 points as Lake Forest erased a 17-point deficit and stung Coe, 81-76, in a non-conference game at the ancient facility.

"It just felt good," said Porter, who transferred from Loyola to Lake Forest this year. "We practiced here yesterday. I like the gym. We all think it's a shooter's gym, so we all had confidence and it was just going in for us today."

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Hobbs glitters with Kohawk women

If the Iowa Conference selected a pre-holiday MVP for women's basketball based on what's happened so far, Aleena Hobbs would be the easy winner.

She led the league in scoring and ranked third in rebounding heading into Saturday's game against Wisconsin-Eau Claire and twice has been named to the D3hoops.com National Team of the Week.

Hobbs had a fairly quiet game Saturday with 13 points and four rebounds for Coe, but the Kohawks did not need Super Hobbs in this contest and cruised to an 86-67 victory at Eby Fieldhouse.

The Kohawks (6-2) opened a 30-point lead in the second half and broke the school record with sixteen 3-pointers, including six more triples by sharpshooter Mickey Hansche.

Hobbs averaged 13.6 points and 6.9 rebounds last year as a freshman, but the Cedar Rapids Washington grad has raised her marks to 20.4 points and 8.4 rebounds after eight games this year.

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Mourer resigns as Coe running coach

Coe College cross country coach Ben Mourer has resigned to become the new head coach at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.

Mourer is a 2007 graduate of Allegheny, where he was a member of four North Coast Athletic Conference championship teams and was the NCAC runner-up in 2007. He also helped the Gators to four straight NCAC Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

"I've been blessed by my time at Coe College," Mourer said. "As grateful as I am for those experiences, I can't think of a better place to continue coaching than Allegheny. It is a bit of a homecoming, but I'm already more excited about the future of these teams."

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National honor for Coe's Hobbs

For the second time this season, Coe sophomore women's basketballplayer Aleena Hobbs, a Washington graduate, has been named to the D3hoops.com National Team of the Week.

Hobbs was previously named to the D3hoops.com National Team of the Week after the first week of the season. Teammate Mickey Hansche was named to the D3hoops.com National Team of the Week after the second week.

Hobbs and Carnegie Mellon's Lisa Murphy are the only two players to earn the honor twice in the first four weeks. Hobbs was also named the Iowa Conference Female Athlete of the Week and the Iowa Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week earlier this week.

Hobbs recorded a pair of double-doubles last week, as she scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in both games against Carthage and 15th-ranked Wisconsin-Whitewater. In Coe's loss to the Warhawks, she was 9-of-16 from the field. She was also 7-of-11 from 3-point range in the two games.