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1 week ago | blackheartgoldpants.com | Bartt Pierce

Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen / USA TODAY NETWORK Coach Rick Heller’sIowa Hawkeyeswon yet another Big Ten series this weekend. The Hawkeyes took two out of three games from the Nebraska Cornhuskersto remain percentage points behind UCLA in the B1G standings. UCLA is 12-3 (.800), while Iowa is 14-4 (.778). The Hawks are 23-11 overall. In game one, Cade Obermueller was once again ridiculous. Obe went seven innings on Friday night, allowing just two hits, no earned runs, and striking out 11.

2 weeks ago | blackheartgoldpants.com | Bartt Pierce

Winning a series in any sport is a sizable accomplishment. The Iowa Hawkeyes left the Chicago area a little disappointed, even though the Iowa 9 won 67% of their games this past weekend against the Northwestern Wildcats. The Hawkeyes were hoping to sweep their third consecutive B1G opponent. After winning the first game 12-1 and the second game 7-1, the Hawkeyes scratched and clawed back, only to lose in the bottom of the ninth 5-4.

3 weeks ago | blackheartgoldpants.com | Bartt Pierce

Sitting looking out my window at downtown Minneapolis, I’m both bummed and elated. I’m bummed as I was planning on seeing a college buddy at the Hawk/Gopher game Sunday. His son, Reece Beuter, is Iowa’s Sunday starter. Minneapolis’s weather was beautiful Thursday and Friday. Saturday and Sunday? Not so much. It’s snowing today. The Gophs and Hawks agreed to move the games to Thursday and Friday (doubleheader). Good call.

1 month ago | blackheartgoldpants.com | Bartt Pierce

Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen / USA TODAY NETWORK After a short hiatus and a sun-filled cruise through the Caribbean, I’m back. And... so is Iowa Hawkeyes Baseball! After a few setbacks early in the season, Coach Rick Heller reached out to me, asking if I’d be willing to step away for a few weeks. The superstition thing in baseball is a living, breathing beast, folks. So, of course, I did. I’m a team player.

1 month ago | blackheartgoldpants.com | Bartt Pierce

Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen / USA TODAY NETWORK Pitching. It has always been about pitching. Newsflash. It will always be about pitching. The more baseball you watch (or listen to), the more you understand that pitching wins games. Just as in football, where you have to be good on the offensive and defensive lines, if you can’t get the ball over the plate and get outs, you can’t expect to win. Hoops is the same. Scoring is cool. Pitching/defending allows you to win.