Gov. Kim Reynolds gives Iowa high school summer sports permission to reopen June 1
Robert Read, Sports Editor
May 20, 2020
Gov. Kim Reynolds said Wednesday that Iowa school-sponsored activities can reopen June 1, including high school baseball and softball. "I know many parents and youth athletes are all so eager to resume summer sports," Reynolds said. "High school athletics was the logical place to start the proce...
Iowa baseball student managers making the best out of uncertain time
Robert Read, Sports Editor
May 10, 2020
Adam Schuck and Sam Bornstein, both University of Iowa seniors and student managers for the Iowa baseball team, are making the best of a bad situation. Baseball is shut down at every level in the U.S. amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The people working in baseball — more specifically, the people ent...
Iowa baseball looks for answers to questions surrounding seniors
Pete Ruden, Pregame Editor
May 7, 2020
There are a lot of unknowns in the Iowa baseball program’s future. When the NCAA canceled the rest of the college baseball season and later voted to give spring-sport seniors an extra year of eligibility, it sent baseball seniors on a roller coaster of emotions. While the extra year is wi...
Hawkeye baseball overcomes practice challenges
Pete Ruden, Pregame Editor
May 6, 2020
When its season was canceled in March, a lot of things were unexpectedly throw at the Iowa baseball program. It was something that had never happened to the team before, so it had to figure out how to work around the fact its players wouldn’t have access to its facilities. That makes it di...
Multi-sport athlete Connor McCaffery waiting to get back to work
Robert Read, Sports Editor
April 16, 2020
As a multi-sport athlete who can be seen in the outfield for the Iowa baseball team after he finishes his season as a starter for the Hawkeye men’s basketball team, Connor McCaffery doesn't typically have much of an offseason. Typically. Now, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he’s at home and l...
Spring-sport athletes to receive extra year of eligibility, winter-sport athletes denied
Pete Ruden, Pregame Editor
March 30, 2020
It's been a tough and unprecedented time for student-athletes who compete at the Division I level. On Monday, some received some good news while others did not. The NCAA Division I Council approved a blanket waiver for all spring-sport athletes to receive an extra year of eligibility after...
Heller details Iowa baseball’s canceled season
Pete Ruden, Pregame Editor
March 26, 2020
Thursday was supposed to be a joyous day for baseball fans across the country. March 26 marked Opening Day for Major League Baseball, the first action in nearly five months. Instead, Iowa baseball head coach Rick Heller held a teleconference with members of the media to discuss the cancellation of...
Hawkeye student-athletes react to season cancellations
Pete Ruden, Pregame Editor
March 12, 2020
The NCAA and Big Ten's decision to cancel winter and spring sports for the remainder of the season has sent shock waves throughout the sports world. The student-athletes involved are at the center of it. Multiple Hawkeyes have tweeted their emotions since the decision, which the Big Ten annou...
Big Ten to conduct winter and spring sporting events without fans
Austin Hanson, Assistant Sports Editor
March 11, 2020
The Big Ten Conference announced Wednesday evening that fans will not be granted entry to any of its remaining 2020 winter or spring events. Those granted access include student-athletes, coaches, credentialed media, and immediate family members of event participants. Sports affected inclu...
Iowa baseball flies past Kansas at Duane Banks Field
Isaac Goffin, Sports Reporter
March 10, 2020
A sure way to win a baseball game is to have reliable hitting and pitching. Against Kansas on Tuesday, the Hawkeyes did just that in an 8-0 victory. It started with some nice situational pitching on the mound from junior Hunter Lee, who is from Des Moines but was born in Overland Park, Kansas. He st...
Hawkeye baseball prepares for first double midweek
Pete Ruden, Pregame Editor
March 9, 2020
Iowa has played dominant baseball at times this season, and a lot of it came just last weekend. The Hawkeyes downed Western Michigan, 10-0, in seven innings on March 6 thanks to the mercy rule, and they destroyed Georgetown 22-2 one day later. Iowa closed the weekend with a loss to Army, but i...