Iowa quarterback Cade McNamara is confident the Hawkeye offense will make progress. Iowa is coming off a 31-0 loss at Penn State in which the Hawkeyes managed only four first downs. Through four games they are ranked next to last in the country in total offense.
McNamara says the Hawkeyes have shifted their focus to Saturday’s game at home against Michigan State.
McNamara delivered an impassioned speech to the team following the loss at Penn State.
Earlham dominated at the Orient-Macksburg Invitational with both teams winning 1st place. On the girl’s side, the Cardinals came in with 30 points. AHSTW placed second with 39 points and CAM placed fourth with 99.
Bella Lamp, Ava Paulsen, and Rylie Knop finished 4th, 5th, and 6th for the Lady Vikes. Nodaway Valley’s Jazz Christensen placed 7th. Orient-Macksburg’s Bridget Bracy took 11th and Yana Lander of AHSTW was 14th.
The Cardinal boys finished the day with an impressive low score of 20 points. Nodaway Valley came in second with 38 points and Diagonal took third with 87 points. East Union’s Jacob Driskill won the individual championship and Nodaway Valley’s Malachi Broers came in second.
The Wolverines had more impressive runners with Bryar Hudson at 8th, Paul Kading 11th, Luke Kading 12th, and Haden Colton 13th. Caden Geraghty of AHSTW was 15th.
THIS WEEK
University of Iowa women’s soccer makes the first of two scheduled television appearances when it takes on Purdue at 5 p.m. (CT) this Thursday at Folk Field. The game will be broadcast on Big Ten Network. Iowa returns home on Sunday to host Rutgers for the annual Pink Game for breast cancer awareness. Kickoff is slated for Noon at the Iowa Soccer Complex.
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SCOUTING THE BOILERMAKERS
SERIES HISTORY – PURDUE
Iowa leads the all-time series, 10-7-5. The teams tied, 2-2, last season in Iowa City. That contest was one of just three times since the 2017 that Iowa did not win a game in which it scored multiple goals.
SCOUTING THE SCARLET KNIGHTS
SERIES HISTORY – RUTGERS
Iowa trails Rutgers, 3-7-0, in the all-time series. Iowa’s last win over the Scarlet Knights came on Oct. 15, 2017, at the Iowa Soccer Complex. The Hawkeyes shutout No. 23 Rutgers that day, 1-0.
PINK GAME
Fans are encouraged to join the Hawkeyes in wearing pink on Sunday to promote awareness for breast cancer. Pink pom poms will be distributed to fans at the Iowa Soccer Complex.
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz says there is no magic formula to fix Iowa’s offense. The Hawkeyes laid a goose egg in a 31-0 loss at sixth ranked Penn State and the offense has become a national laughingstock.
Ferentz says there are no plans to shake up the coaching staff or change the play caller.
Ferentz says bouncing back this week against Michigan State begins with the coaches.
Ferentz says there were no bright spots at Penn State.
Ferentz says they would like to get the wide receivers more involved in the offense. wideouts have been targeted only 35 times in four games and only four times last week.
Iowa State coach Matt Campbell says the Cyclones need to be ready to face a confident Oklahoma team on Saturday night. After struggling to a 6-7 record in Brent Venables first season as head coach the Sooners are 4-0 and ranked 14th nationally.
Communication will be a key. The offense will need to operate in a loud stadium and the defense will need to handle the Sooners’ fast paced offense.
Defense has been a key to OU’s rise this season. After giving up 30 points per game a year ago the Sooners are yielding less than nine per game.
Campbell says there has been an influx of talent and added experience.
(Radio Iowa) – A leader in the union that represents 19-thousand federal employees who work in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and the Dakotas says some of them will be required to work, without pay, if there’s a federal government shutdown. Ruark Hotopp is a national vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees. “TSA employees would still go to work during a shutdown, however,” Hotopp says, “without a paycheck.” Hotopp joined an online news conference organized by the Iowa Democratic Party.
“In our union, we had many discussions with a lot of federal lawmakers up on Capitol Hill,” Hotopp says. “The indication we had as of a month ago was that there was going to be a deal struck amongst House Republicans to avert this, only for them to then renege on that deal and to come back and hold us all hostage with the threat of a shutdown.” Hotopp says a shutdown would bring the country to a screeching halt.
“I don’t know that folks really realize how many government agencies really exist and what they all do,” Hotopp says. “…We run the full gamut of law enforcement agencies, agriculture — you name it.” Some U-S-D-A employees are represented by Hotopp’s union, but the U-S-D-A would shut down — with the exception of critical functions, like fire fighters in the U-S Forest Service who protect property.
(Radio Iowa) – The rain farmers have been hoping for slowed some of the harvest last week. The U-S-D-A reports says rainfall cut the time in the field by about two days. The corn harvest is now nine percent statewide, compared to five percent the week before. The corn harvest is still six days ahead of last year.
The percentage of beans in the bin hit 11 percent last week — up from three percent. The bean harvest is three days ahead of last year, and one day ahead of the five-year average.
(Radio Iowa) – Recent court filings show a southeast Iowa man who skipped the jury verdict in his murder trial and went on the run faces another charge after his capture. Sixty-three-year-old Gregory Showalter of Ottumwa was not present in court on Friday when a Wapello County jury returned a guilty verdict for first-degree murder, willful injury, abuse of a corpse, and domestic abuse. Authorities say Showalter murdered his wife, Helen Showalter, in July 2021. Police say Showalter, who was out on bail, cut off his ankle monitor and turned off his phone before leaving his home on Friday. A search commenced and Showalter was found in his home on Saturday morning hiding behind a chair.
Showalter was apprehended and transported to the Wapello County Jail where he is being held without bond. Showalter faces an additional charge of interference with official acts. His sentencing in the murder trial is scheduled for October 16th.
(Rural Atlantic, Iowa) – Atlantic Fire and Rescue along with two Cass EMS ambulances were dispatched at around 12:18-p.m. to the area of 570th and Galveston Road (west of Atlantic), for a two-vehicle accident. Both vehicles rolled, but there were reportedly only minor injuries. The road is blocked at this time. No other details are currently available.
University of Iowa men’s and women’s cross country notes for this Friday’s Joe Piane Invitational in South Bend, Indiana. Nearly 40 teams will attend the meet hosted by Notre Dame on the Burke Golf Course. The Joe Piane Invite will feature six total races, including the 5,000-meter race for the women beginning at 9:30 a.m. (CT) and the men’s five-mile (8,046 meters) race at 10:15 a.m.
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