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JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — All the tuneups are complete for Matt Harvey. Next up is the real thing. Harvey capped a stellar spring training by striking out four in four innings Thursday as the New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals played a 0-0 tie in their Grapefruit League finale. Harvey allowed three hits and threw 41 of 56 pitches for strikes. He had a 1.19 ERA in six spring training starts, giving up three runs and 17 hits in 22 2-3 innings.
“Everything feels great, as it has all spring training,” Harvey said. “I don’t think there’s much more to accomplish.” The NL starter in the 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field, Harvey hasn’t pitched in a regular-season game since Aug. 24, 2013. The 26-year-old right-hander is recovering from elbow ligament-replacement surgery that Oct. 22. He walked one and struck out 21 during the exhibition season.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) – Northern Iowa coach Ben Jacobson will be making roughly $900,000 a year under the terms of a new contract extension. UNI athletic director Troy Dannen announced Thursday that Jacobson has signed a 10-year extension through 2024-25.
Jacobson’s new deal will raise his salary by over $300,000 per season.
Dannen says a number of prominent boosters stepped up in the past two weeks to raise Jacobson’s salary to a level “consistent with the national marketplace.” Jacobson has been Northern Iowa’s coach for nine seasons. He led the Panthers to a school-record 31 wins and the Missouri Valley tournament title this past season.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State has extended wrestling coach Kevin Jackson’s contract through 2018. Jackson, a 1992 Olympic gold medalist for the U.S., has been with the Cyclones for the past six seasons.
Iowa State went 11-2 in dual meets in 2014-15 and finished with its best winning percentage since 2010. Jackson has coached four national champions at Iowa State, including recent 197-pound winner Kyven Gadson.
The Cyclones say more details regarding Jackson’s new deal will be released at a later date.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa quarterback C.J. Beathard says the Hawkeyes are “his team” now that former starter Jake Rudock is set to transfer. Beathard spoke to reporters Wednesday for the first time since coach Kirk Ferentz released a depth chart in January with Beathard listed ahead of Rudock, a two-year starter.
Beathard says he didn’t have any plans to leave the Hawkeyes if Rudock had remained the starter. But Beathard added that he felt that he was a better athlete and that he could “do more things” than Rudock during competition ahead of a 45-28 bowl loss to Tennessee.
Beathard took most of the snaps against the Volunteers, and Ferentz announced last week that Rudock intends to play his final season elsewhere.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — Carlos Martinez pitched six scoreless innings and Jhonny Peralta drove in two runs as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Mets 5-4 Wednesday. Martinez, the Cardinals’ fifth starter, scattered three hits, struck out five and walked one.
Mets opening-day starter Bartolo Colon allowed three runs and six hits in five innings, struck out two and walked one. Peralta had an RBI double in the first inning and added a RBI single off Colon in the sixth. Kolton Wong and Mike Adams each had two hits and an RBI for the Cardinals.
Matt Reynolds had three RBIs for the Mets, including a two-run double in the eighth.
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg announced today the return of T.J. Otzelberger to his staff as assistant coach. Otzelberger spent seven seasons as an assistant coach at Iowa State before spending the last two seasons at the University of Washington.
“I’m excited to have T.J. rejoin our staff,” Hoiberg said. “His familiarity with our program and Iowa State University will help us to have a seamless transition. T.J. is a proven coach and recruiter and he will be very valuable to our coaching staff.”
Otzelberger was an assistant coach at Iowa State from 2006-2013, working under Greg McDermott before spending three seasons on Hoiberg’s staff.
“Returning to Iowa State is a dream come true for my family and I,” Otzelberger said. “We are truly passionate about this university and the Ames community. I couldn’t be more enthusiastic to get back to work with Coach Hoiberg and the excellent staff he has assembled. It feels great to be coming home.”
In his first stint with the Cyclones, Otzelberger played a major role in bringing a number of outstanding recruits to Ames. Among them was Melvin Ejim, an All-American on the court and in the classroom at Iowa State.
Ejim, the 2014 Big 12 Player of the Year, finished his career as one of the top scorers in school history, with 1,643 points. He is second all-time with 1,051 career rebounds, making him just the fourth player in Big 12 history with 1,500 points and 1,000 rebounds. Ejim’s senior season went down as one of the best in school history, earning All-America honors from five different outlets and winning Big 12 Player of the Year Honors.
Otzelberger’s other Cyclone recruits included: Craig Brackins, a two-time All-Big 12 performer; Diante Garrett, ISU’s second-best career assist man and eventual NBA player; Mike Taylor, an All-Big 12 performer and 2008 NBA Draft pick; Scott Christopherson, Iowa State’s all-time leading three-point shooter and an All-Big 12 Third-Team pick in 2012; Will Clyburn, the 2013 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year; and NBA player Justin Hamilton.
In all, Otzelberger helped tutor four 1,000-point scorers and 13 All-Big 12 performers (Taylor, Wesley Johnson, Jiri Hubalek, Brackins, Marquis Gilstrap, Garrett, Christopherson, Royce White, Ejim, Chris Allen, Clyburn, Tyrus McGee and Korie Lucious) in seven years at Iowa State.
Otzelberger, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, native also recruited current Cyclones Naz Long and Matt Thomas, who have combined to connect on 222 three-pointers.
Otzelberger helped the Cyclones advance to the NCAA Tournament in his last two seasons, winning a game in both tournaments to advance to the round of 32.
In addition to Washington, Otzelberger also was an assistant coach at Chipola Junior College (Fla.). He’s coached at the high school level as well, serving as an assistant at Catholic Central High School in Burlington, Wisconsin, for two years before taking over as head coach and athletics director in 2003-04.
Otzelberger was a two-year captain at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, while earning his degree in business administration in 2001. He earned his Masters of Science degree in curriculum and instruction from UW-Whitewater in 2004.
Otzelberger is married to the former Alison Lacey, a three-time All-Big 12 player for the Iowa State women’s basketball team (2006-10). The couple has twins, Jayce and Olivia.
The hiring is pending completion of a background check.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Northern Iowa coach Ben Jacobson has agreed to stay with the Panthers for another decade. Northern Iowa spokesman Colin McDonough says Jacobson and the school have agreed to a contract extension through 2024-25. McDonough says further details on Jacobson’s new contract will be available later this week.
Jacobson has been at Northern Iowa for nine seasons. He led the Panthers to a school-record 31 wins and the Missouri Valley tournament title this past season. Jacobson is 197-104 with the Panthers, who have finished among the top three of the Valley in five of the last six years.
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