The Buena Vista baseball team got little rest after completing its four-game series sweep of Central late Monday night, as the Beavers went on the road to play an afternoon doubleheader at Coe College on Tuesday.  The Kohawks took the opener, 4-2, before BVU came back and earned the split with a 6-5 win in game two.

BVU fell behind 3-0 in the opener after three innings and looked to pull off yet another come-from-behind victory.  Nick Schlecht doubled to leadoff the sixth and came around to score on Neil Marshall's RBI single.  Later in the inning, Weston Foxx singled home a run to make it 3-2.

The Kohawks got one run back in the bottom half on a solo home run with one out for a 4-2 lead.

The Beavers, despite being held to just four hits in the contest, still weren't ready to go away, getting a leadoff walk to start the seventh, but then had three fly balls hit to the warning track to end the threat and the game.

Junior Jake Bjorkgren went the distance for the Beavers and suffered his first loss of the year (3-1).  He was charged with just three earned runs while scattering seven hits, striking out four and walking only one.

The Beavers jumped on the Kohawks early in the nightcap and led wire-to-wire.  Joe Paletta drove home the game's first run in the top of the third before BVU took advantage of miscues by the Kohawks defensively in the fourth to score twice more.  Ryan Titman singled to center and after the ball got by the centerfielder, Tanner Truesdell was able to come all the way around to score from first.  Titman wound up on second and scored two batters later on Marshall's RBI single up the middle.

Coe got on the board in the bottom half with two runs of its own to make it a 3-2 contest.

Truesdell again made it a three-run advantage in the fifth when he doubled to right center, scoring Bryce Wessels as well as Foxx with two outs.

That lead was again cut down to one in the bottom half when the Kohawks scored twice more, including the second on a passed ball.

The scored stayed 5-4 until the eighth when Brandon Wessels blasted his third home run of the year with two outs, pushing the BVU advantage to 6-4.  The Kohakws got that run back in the bottom half on a wild pitch with two outs, but Lucas Hadaway got the strikeout to end the frame.

BVU looked to add to its total in the ninth with runners at the corners and two outs but couldn't push another run across.  Hadaway then came back out for the ninth and retired Coe in order, including back-to-back strikeouts to end it and give the Beavers a doubleheader split.

Marshall, Foxx and Truesdell all tallied two hits, as BVU totaled nine in the contest.

Justin Lange got the start and was solid for the Beavers in his four innings of work.  He allowed just two runs and scattered four hits, while striking out four and walking only two.  Jake Lewis then came on and pitched the next 1.2 innings and was credited with the win.  He allowed two runs on two hits, while striking out two and also walking a pair.

Cam Beatty was charged with an unearned run in his two innings of work, while striking out two, and Hadaway picked up his third save of the year after striking out three in his 1.1 innings.

The two games wrap up the season series with each team winning two games.  The game two triumph was also the 295th win in Coach Eddie's career.

Buena Vista is now 19-5 overall (8-4 IIAC) and will finally get a couple days off following its six-game stretch over a three-day span.  The Beavers will return to action on Friday evening, April 11, when they begin a four-game weekend series at Simpson College with a doubleheader starting at 3:30pm.