CEDAR RAPIDS – Cornell's baseball team settled the 2021-22 Bremner Cup Series in a big way Monday, clinching the annual traveling trophy between Linn County rivals with a season-ending 17-4 rout of the Coe Kohawks at Bill Quinby Field.
 
The Rams secured the Bremner Cup, 8-7, in the 15th and final head-to-head competition of the academic year. Cornell also won the Cup in 2017-18 and 2016-17 by the same 8-7 margin.
 
Along with baseball, Cornell beat the Kohawks in men's and women's cross country, men's and women's track & field, men's soccer, women's soccer and volleyball to regain possession of the Cup.
 
Coach Seth Wing's baseball Rams (17-23 overall) sealed this outcome with a 10-run outburst in the top of the eighth inning, breaking a competitive 7-4 game. Cornell racked up 19 hits in the contest and sent 14 batters to the plate in the eighth, which ultimately ended the contest via the mercy rule.
 
The Kohawks' pitching staff had no answer for Cornell's No. 1-4 hitters in the lineup, which combined to go 14-of-21 with 14 runs and eight RBIs.
 
Shortstop James Kent enjoyed a dynamic 5-for-6 day at the plate with four runs and five RBIs, stamped by a two-run homer in the eighth. It was the junior's sixth round-tripper of the season.
 
Freshman leadoff hitter Kale Rose went 4-for-4 with a double, homer and five runs scored. He finished an impressive rookie season with a team-best .347 batting average.
 
Cleanup batter Drew Logel accounted for four hits and drove in two. Seth Beals doubled and scored three times. Colin Konicek went 2-for-5 with a double. Colin Gierula delivered a three-run double in Cornell's final at-bat.
 
Starting left-hander Will Miller (2-5) won his second pitching decision in six days, holding the Kohawks (17-19) to two hits and one run over three innings. Vince Zipperer and Preston Wright each fired one scoreless inning in relief.
 
Cornell's pitchers limited Coe to six total hits, five of them singles.
 
Kent, Logel, Josiah Shaw and Darren Mancke each had an RBI during Cornell's four-run third inning, giving the Rams a 5-1 lead they would not relinquish.