Archive | April 8, 2012

Iowa baseball collapses in ninth, loses series to Nebraska

The Iowa baseball team was ahead, 8-5, headed into the bottom of the ninth inning on Sunday, but fell apart and lost to Nebraska, 9-8. The Hawkeyes (13-16, 4-5 Big Ten) lost two out of three games overall to the Cornhuskers over the weekend. Head coach Jack Dahm’s squad defeated Nebraska on April 6, 4-3, [...]

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NCAA Regionals: GymHawks finish fifth

The Iowa women’s gymnastics team placed fifth out of six teams in the Seattle NCAA Regional on April 7 after it posted a team score of 194.6. The regional berth was Iowa’s fifth-consecutive appearance and sixth overall under current head coach Larissa Libby. Defending NCAA champion No. 4 Alabama won the Regional meet with a [...]

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Molnar sits as Iowa women’s tennis falters

The Iowa women’s tennis team dropped two meets over the weekend, to No. 45 Indiana and No. 34 Purdue. The No. 72 Hawkeyes fell to 7-11 overall and 1-6 in the Big Ten. The Hawkeyes faced Indiana and fell to the Hoosiers, 6-1, on April 7. “Indiana was better than us today,” Iowa head coach [...]

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Iowa softball can’t stop Northwestern’s momentum, drops series

The Iowa softball team lost a three-game series to Northwestern over the weekend. Iowa took the first game of a doubleheader on April 7, 5-2, but dropped a 7-6 score in the nightcap and a 12-6 loss on Sunday. Momentum played a key role for both teams in the series; the Hawkeyes utilized a 5-run [...]

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Iowa men’s track sets records in the Bayou

The Iowa men’s track team had a record-breaking weekend at the Battle on the Bayou in Baton Rouge, La. Seniors Jeff Herron and Erik Sowinski led the way to a third-place finish for the Hawkeyes. Herron set a new school record in the high jump with a leap of 7-04 1/4 feet, which broke the [...]

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Hawkeye tracksters set personal-bests in Palo Alto

Iowa’s track and field distance runners took off to Palo Alto, Calif., this past weekend for the Stanford Invitational. They returned to Iowa City with a slew of brand-new personal records. McKenzie Melander recorded a second-place finish in section two of the women’s 5,000-meter race. The senior finished in 15:57.13 minutes, a time that ranks [...]

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