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1 week ago | 
dailyiowan.com | Jake Olson
Iowa baseball relief pitcher Anthony Watts has been a staple out of the bullpen in 2025 for head coach Rick Heller. Holding talents in both relief and starting pitching roles, Watts brings a unique asset to the Hawkeye pitching staff. Watts started his journey at Waukee Northwest High School in Waukee, Iowa, dazzling Class 4A with his high velocity and large 6-foot-4 frame.
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1 week ago | 
dailyiowan.com | Jake Olson
The Iowa baseball team dropped two of three games on the road at Washington over the weekend, losing its first Big Ten series of the season in the process. The Hawkeyes fell to the Huskies in walk-off fashion on Friday and Saturday nights before winning 8-0 on Sunday to avoid the sweep. Iowa moves to 32-15 on the season and 21-6 in conference play, and still retain a 2.5 game lead over UCLA for first place in the conference standings.
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1 week ago | 
dailyiowan.com | Jake Olson
The Iowa softball team completed the series sweep with a 4-0 victory over Rutgers on Sunday afternoon. Hawkeye batters took advantage of inconsistent Scarlet Knight pitching to score a plethora of runs. Iowa moves to 35-17 and 15-7 in Big Ten play and concludes the regular season in sixth place in the conference standings.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailyiowan.com | Jake Olson
In this game, teams that haven't won a single game can beat any opponent on any given night. You can outplay a team for eight innings, but might fall if you lose that one inning. This was the instance when Iowa dropped a tough one to Illinois State on Tuesday night, 6-5. If a random person looked at that box score, they would assume Illinois State played an amazing game and dominated the Hawkeyes in all facets of the game. But it was actually the opposite. Iowa dominated the game.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailyiowan.com | Jake Olson
If you run a web search for who the best golfer of all time is, you'll probably come back with a short list that includes Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus. While Woods has done plenty for the sport through a heck of a career, Nicklaus remains the greatest golfer of all time. That's not to say Woods is a bad or even mediocre golfer, but the numbers clearly show Nicklaus as an all-time favorite.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailyiowan.com | Jake Olson
Iowa baseball won all three contests against Indiana and picked up its second consecutive series sweep this weekend at Duane Banks Field in Iowa City. After a thrilling 2-1 extra-inning victory on Friday, the Hawkeyes outscored the Hoosiers, 23-2, in the final two games. Iowa is 31-12 on the season and 20-4 in Big Ten play, retaining the top spot by three games over UCLA. This is the best conference start in program history.
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2 weeks ago | 
moraminn.com | Jake Olson
The 44th annual Snake River Canoe Race is set for Saturday, May 3, with the race starting at 9:30 a.m.This annual event typically attracts around 200 river-racing enthusiasts from throughout the state to paddle the 15 miles of Snake River from County Road 3 (the Hinckley Road), north of Mora to the Kanabec County History Center in the city of Mora. Racers can enter various categories open to both two-person and solo watercraft.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailyiowan.com | Jake Olson
The Iowa softball team extended its winning streak with a 4-0 victory over Drake at Bob Pearl Field on Wednesday. The Hawkeyes maximized pitching efforts from Jalen Adams and Talia Trenton to lead the team to its seventh shutout of the season. So Iowa moved to 29-16 after winning its fourth game in a row, now sitting in fifth place in the Big Ten with a 10-6 record as the postseason nears.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailyiowan.com | Jake Olson
With runners on first and second and no outs on the board, Iowa baseball was doing everything in its power to come back from a 6-2 eighth-inning deficit to Western Illinois on Tuesday. However, the rally was immediately diminished. A pair of strikeouts from Ben Wilmes and Kooper Schulte led to a weak pop fly by Ben Swails, taking the life out of Duane Banks Field in Iowa City and washing away any hopes of winning. This is the reality of baseball, especially at the collegiate level.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailyiowan.com | Jake Olson
Gable Mitchell: Probably just the other day [against Nebraska]. The crowd here was incredible. It was a record of some sort with the amount of people here. We don't get to play in those environments too often, so when we get the chance, it's pretty cool. Who do you think has the most aura on the team? I'm going to go with Jaixen Frost. He just kind of has something about him that's a little intimidating when you first meet him. If you had to play for one MLB team, what would it be?
