The Iowa softball team utilized an explosive 5-run fourth inning to defeat Illinois, 5-1, in game one of a three-game series at home on Saturday. The Hawkeyes wore out renowned Illini pitcher Pepper Gay after the big fourth inning. Gay entered the game with 99 strikeouts and a 1.67 ERA in 100.2 innings. Iowa collected [...]
Iowa women’s tennis upsets No. 46 Penn State
No. 46 Penn State became another one of Iowa’s victims at home. The Hawkeye women’s tennis team defeated the Nittany Lions, 4-3, on Friday in Iowa’s first meet back home after a six-meet road trip. Iowa improved an untarnished 6-0 home record and is 1-3 in the Big Ten. The meet was played at the [...]
Man charged with 1st-degree kidnapping
A local man was charged Thursday with first-degree kidnapping. According to an Iowa City press release, Peng Tang, 21, 923 E. College St. #8 was charged Thursday with with first-degree kidnapping. On March 29 at approximately 8:17 p.m., the Iowa City Police Department reportedly took a report of a sexual assault that occurred on 1000 [...]
Iowa men’s tennis hits road for pair of tests
The Iowa men’s tennis team will hit the road for two Big Ten meets this weekend, visiting Penn State on Friday and No. 2 Ohio State on April 1. The Hawkeyes enter the weekend with a 1-12 record (0-2 Big Ten), and have lost their last 10 meets. Head coach Steve Houghton said Friday presents [...]
Canzeri tears ACL
Iowa running back Jordan Canzeri, who was slated as the Hawkeyes’ No. 1 tailback for the first week and a half of spring practice, has reportedly torn his ACL. Canzeri’s father, Brian, told Rob Howe of hawkeyeinsider.com that his son had suffered the injury; Jordan Canzeri had an MRI on Thursday that revealed the tear, [...]
Hawkeye tracksters head to Arkansas Invite
By Cody Goodwin cody-goodwin@uiowa.edu The Iowa women’s track and field team begins its outdoor season today in Fayetteville, Ark., for the Arkansas Invitational. The Hawkeyes have put more time into their practice regimen in preparation for the different season. But that doesn’t mean the competition will be any different. Head coach Layne Anderson’s attitude — [...]
Iowa men’s golf begins stroke-play events
By Ryan Murphy ryan-e-murphy@uiowa.edu The Iowa men’s golf team has finished the match-play portion of the spring season, and is ready to face three stroke-play events in the next month before the Big Ten Championships. Iowa’s first stroke-play event of the season comes this weekend at the LSU National Invitational in Baton Rouge, La. The [...]
Iowa baseball drops contest to Nebraska-Omaha, 3-1
By Ben Schuff benjamin-schuff@uiowa.edu Jack Dahm will have to wait for his 200th career win as Iowa’s manager. The Hawkeyes (9-12) struggled at the plate and in the field on Wednesday as they lost to Nebraska-Omaha, 3-1, at Banks Field. “When we’re playing at home — those are some of my good friends over there [...]
Intramural basketball: The Do Works do work in the second half
By Matthew Cabel matthew-cabel@uiowa.edu Playing well in the first half of a game means nothing if it can’t be replicated in the second half. Just ask the Dilf Squad, which — despite entering halftime only down to the Do Works by 3 points — was held to single-digit scoring until the final few minutes of [...]
UI conducts controlled burn
The University of Iowa Landscape services conducted a controlled burn at Mormon Handcart Park Prairie Tuesday afternoon. Some smoke from the burn could be seen over Coralville due to winds. “It is a preferred management practice over mowing because more of the unwanted vegetation is removed and the prairie responds with renewed vigor after a [...]
