Western Illinois @ Iowa Baseball

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Iowa hosts Western Illinois in Iowa City at 6:30pm on Tuesday. Western Illinois is coached by former Iowa assistant Ryan Brownlee and former player Dusty Napoleon is an assistant. WIU only has a record of 9-19 on the year, but they have improved tons under Brownlee. They had 19 wins last year which was the most ever for a first year coach in their program.

Hopefully Iowa can keep the momentum going and get a midweek victory. Winning midweek games is always a nice bonus, but at this point the conference slate means more.

 

[2bagger22]

WIU has only played one mid-week game so far. They lost last week to D2 Illinois-Springfield. I think the bats woke up against NW and I think they can take down Brownlee's squad.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

It looks like Iowa plans to start Blake Hickman on Tuesday night. I am hopeful that Blake can show more composure/control and not give up free bases like he did against Kansas. I think he can be pretty good when he doesn't walk so many guys.

WIU did lose to Illinois-Springfield in a midweek game, they also faced Louisville in a DH on a Tuesday in early March and lost 8-0 and 5-2 in those games.

 

[2bagger22]

Originally posted by IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life:
It looks like Iowa plans to start Blake Hickman on Tuesday night. I am hopeful that Blake can show more composure/control and not give up free bases like he did against Kansas. I think he can be pretty good when he doesn't walk so many guys.

WIU did lose to Illinois-Springfield in a midweek game, they also faced Louisville in a DH on a Tuesday in early March and lost 8-0 and 5-2 in those games.

Their Louisville series was part of their spring trip so it wasn't a true midweek in the true sense. It'll be interesting to see if they follow Hickman with Hedrick.

 

[hawkeye4316]

Wonder if Brownlee's squad will struggle offensively similarly to his Iowa hitters when he was here?

 

[hawkeye4316]

Going to extras. sounds like a very poorly played game
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[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

Originally posted by hawkeye4316
Wonder if Brownlee's squad will struggle offensively similarly to his Iowa hitters when he was here?

Wonder no more.

WIU 8 - Iowa 6 (10 innings). 14 hits for the Leathernecks against the noodle-armed revolving door of Hawkeyes pitchers.
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[hawkeye4316]

horrible loss. need more arms. and more, better arms.

will come in time.
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[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Iowa's bullpen is Jekyll/Hyde, but make no mistake errors cost Iowa the game. WIU had a huge fifth inning due to errors. I guess a bright side is that four errors was common under dahm. Not having martsching and Kaufman pitching really hurt. As bad of a loss as this was , Iowa is still 20-14, what were we? 12-19 at this time last year.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

This was a season high in errors. Coach Heller says we are close to being a good team, but until the lapses in some games stop we will not be.

 

[hawkeye4316]

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