Double Dual at Audubon

The Atlantic/CAM wrestling team opened up their season with two dual victories in Audubon.  The Trojans beat the Wheelers 48-21 and Griswold 66-18. Audubon won four of 7 matches in the dual with Atlantic but open weights gave the Trojans the win.  Atlantic won four out of five contests against Griswold.  Audubon took down Griswold 36-24 by winning 3 of 4 contested matches.  Two Audubon wrestlers won twice on the night: Jacob Soll (152) and Dustin Andreasen (160).

• Atlantic 48, Audubon 21
• Atlantic 66, Griswold 18
• Audubon 36, Griswold 24

Double Dual at Bedford

• Central Decatur 40, Wayne 21
• Bedford/Lenox 48, Central Decatur 30
• Bedford/Lenox 52, Wayne 23

Quad at Clarke

• Southwest Valley 46, East Mills 36
• East Mills 36, Mount Ayr 33
• Clarke 36, East Mills 34
• Mount Ayr 41, Southwest Valley 37
• Southwest Valley 42, Clarke 39
• Mount Ayr 37, Clarke 36

Double Dual at Glenwood

• Kuemper Catholic 66, St. Albert 6
• Glenwood 83, St. Albert 0
• Glenwood 63, Kuemper Catholic 14

Double Dual at Lewis Central

• Clarinda 48, Shenandoah 24
• Lewis Central 63, Shenandoah 9
• Lewis Central 54, Clarinda 20

Quad at Logan-Magnolia

• AHSTW 75, Exira-EHK 12
• AHSTW 66, Woodbine 18
• Logan-Magnolia 54, AHSTW 16
• Logan-Magnolia 78, Exira-EHK 6
• Woodbine 42, Exira-EHK 40
• Logan-Magnolia 75, Woodbine 6

Double Dual at Nodaway Valley

• Guthrie Center 36, West Central Valley 30
• Guthrie Center 42, Nodaway Valley 39
• West Central Valley 33, Nodaway Valley 18

Double Dual at Red Oak

• Missouri Valley 54, Denison-Schleswig 11
• Red Oak 42, Denison-Schleswig 34
• Missouri Valley 51, Red Oak 28

Double Dual at Riverside

• Underwood 69, Southwest Iowa 12
• Riverside 72, Southwest Iowa 9
• Riverside 38, Underwood 36

Quad at Thomas Jefferson

• Sioux City North 54, Abraham Lincoln 21
• Sioux City West 42, Abraham Lincoln 38
• Thomas Jefferson 67, Sioux City West 12
• Thomas Jefferson 39, Sioux City North 33

The success of the Iowa football team has even the most casual fans sporting Iowa gear, and has the man in charge of licensing for the school keeping an eye out for those trying to take advantage of the desire to wear the black and gold. Hawkeye Sports Licensing director Dale Arens says, the companies all have to get approval to legally produce the items with the U-I logo. “We take applications in a variety of different product categories. Any application requires a marketing plan…there’s a couple of different things we look at in each case, and do they have a chance for success,” Arens says.

He says the products have to be new or do something different with a current product to get approval. Iowa completed an undefeated regular season at 12-0 and play Saturday in the Big Ten Championship game. There’ll be special hats and t-shirts and other items on sale at the event in Indianapolis, and Arens says there are even more requirements for the vendors who produce those products. “Those don’t involve just the University of Iowa’s intellectual properties, but they are going to involve, like this weekend the Big Ten, Michigan State,” Arens says. “So now you are looking at a licensee vendor who has to have a relationship with all three of those parties, or it’s not even worth talking about.” Arens says they will be looking to make sure unapproved items aren’t being sold.

“I will be in Indianapolis working with my colleague from Michigan State, people from the Big Ten and then local law enforcement. So, we do police the marketplace around the stadium prior to the game and in that market,” Arens says. “And throughout the season that’s something we do here at the University of Iowa also.” Arens is confident they will find any knock off products.

“I like to say I am like a good bird dog, I know where the birds are hiding. And so we know if there are going to be infringers, we know where they’ll be and we make sure they don’t hang around any longer than they are welcome — which is not,” according to Arens. He says things haven’t changed a lot when it comes to protecting the copyrights. “While it may seem easier to do that now because of the internet, it’s also easier to find and police them,” Arens says. He says he does have a lot of help when it comes to keeping a watchful eye on the tiger hawk.

“It’s crazy, you’d think that would be a 24-seven job for me, but the University of Iowa has 250-thousand plus alumni out there and every one of them thinks they are a detective when they see this,” Arens says. “They don’t want to see their beloved school stolen from and infringed upon — so they certainly let us know when they see things.” So, does the man who makes sure everything from Hawkeye keychains to socks wear the gear when he heads out?

“Yeah I do, but it’s crazy though because with what I do, everybody thinks that that’s my entire life. And while it is, sometimes I’ll go to my closet and I’ll go ‘ oh good lord I wish I had something that didn’t have a log on it.’ When I go to church I don’t want to go wearing a Hawkeye shirt,” Arens says. Most other times though, he says he’s happy to wear the black and gold.

(Radio Iowa/Learfield Sports)