JACKS TURNED BACK TWICE AT IOWA

Sunday, March 19

Iowa City, Iowa

noon

South Dakota State University

4-11

Iowa

14-3

South Dakota State

Iowa

Photo by: Erik Williams

3/19/2023 9:13:00 PM | Baseball

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IOWA CITY, Iowa — Nationally ranked Iowa put together two big innings in the opener and got a tie-breaking home run from Raider Tello in Game 2 to sweep a nonconference baseball doubleheader from South Dakota State Sunday afternoon at Duane Banks Field.

In winning a pair of seven-inning games by 12-2 and 5-3, the Hawkeyes improved to 15-3 overall. SDSU dropped to 4-12 on the season.

Game 1: Iowa 12, SDSU 2
The Hawkeyes scored a dozen unanswered runs, putting up five runs in the third inning and erupting for seven more runs in the sixth to put the 10-run rule into effect.

SDSU opened the scoring with a pair of runs in the second inning, keyed by a pair of Iowa natives. With one out, Iowa City native Luke Ira walked and moved to third base on a double by Johnston product Drew Beazley. Ira later came home on a wild pitch, while Beazley scored on a groundout off the bat of Jess Bellows.

The Jackrabbits had a chance to build on their lead an inning later, loading the bases with one out, but Iowa starter Marcus Morgan worked out of the jam with a strikeout and flyout.

It was all Iowa from there as the Hawkeyes sent 11 men to the plate in the home half of the third inning, scoring five times on five hits. Keaton Anthony plated the first run of the inning with a sacrifice fly, while four Hawkeyes came up with run-scoring singles later in the frame.

Sam Petersen, who tallied one of the third-inning singles, delivered the big blow in the seven-run sixth inning with a three-run home run. Cade Moss and Kyle Huckstorf joined Petersen with two hits as the Hawkeyes out-hit the Jackrabbits, 11-3.

Iowa reliever Jared Simpson was credited with the win after throwing four shutout innings. He struck out 10, walked one and allowed one hit.

Blake Kunz took the loss after giving up five runs in 2 1/3 innings. He struck out three, walked four and hit two batters.

Game 2: Iowa 5, SDSU 3
South Dakota State once again had Iowa on the ropes early, but the Hawkeyes had another answer in the late innings to pull out the sweep.

Iowa starter Cade Obermueller was lifted after facing only four batters and didn't record an out as he hit two batters, walked one and gave up a run-scoring single that plated Ryan McDonald, while Jess Bellows scored on a wild pitch for a 2-0 lead.

Luke Llewellyn, who earned the save in Friday's series opener, then entered and proceeded to strike out the side to end the inning.

Huckstorf homered two batters into the bottom of the first inning to put Iowa on the board, but the Jackrabbits touched Llewellyn for another run in the second inning as Dawson Parry doubled to left field to score Reece Anderson after the Jackrabbit center fielder drew a leadoff walk.

The Iowa bullpen then took over, blanking the Jackrabbits over the final five innings, including four shutout innings from Ty Langenberg, who recorded six strikeouts.

The Hawkeyes drew even at 3-all in the third inning as Anthony delivered a run-scoring double and later scored on a wild pitch, then took the lead as Tello connected on a two-run homer off SDSU closer Ryan Bourassa with two outs in the fifth.

Will Christophersen pitched a 1-2-3 top of the seventh to seal the victory for Iowa.

Anthony was the lone player for either team with more than one hit in the nightcap as Iowa held a 6-4 advantage in hits.

Brady Hawkins worked the first 2 2/3 innings for the Jackrabbits, allowing the first three runs on hits. Alex Clemons followed with 1 1/3 scoreless innings, while Bourassa finished with two innings in which he struck out three.

UP NEXT
The Jackrabbits are scheduled to open the Summit League portion of their schedule with a three-game series March 24-26. The series has been moved from Greeley to Golden, Colorado, and will be played at Jim Darden Field. Friday's series opener is slated to begin at 2 p.m. Mountain Time (3 p.m. Central).

NOTES

Iowa leads the all-time series, 11-3, and has won the last 10 meetings
Bourassa has tallied 26 strikeouts in 13 2/3 innings so far this season
Clemons made his second appearance of the series after starting Friday's opener, which was played in Parkville, Missouri
Parry took over the team lead in runs batted in with 13

-GoJacks.com-

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Jared Simpson (3-0)

L: Kunz, Blake (0-3)

South Dakota State

Batting:

2B: Beazley, Drew 1

RBI: Bellows, Jess 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Ira, Luke 1 ; Beazley, Drew 1

HBP: Parry, Dawson 1

Iowa

Batting:

2B: Kyle Huckstorf 1

HR: Sam Petersen 1

RBI: Michael Seegers 1 ; Kyle Huckstorf 1 ; Brennen Dorighi 1 ; Keaton Anthony 1 ; Raider Tello 1 ; Chase Moseley 1 ; Brayden Frazier 1 ; Sam Petersen 4 ; Cade Moss 1

SF: Keaton Anthony 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Kyle Huckstorf 2 ; Brennen Dorighi 1 ; Keaton Anthony 1 ; Raider Tello 2 ; Sam Hojnar 2 ; Chase Moseley 1 ; Brayden Frazier 1 ; Sam Petersen 1 ; Cade Moss 1