2008 Woodie Awards
Hawkeye baseball look to regain zest
Diane Hendrickson - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 4/11/08 Section: Sports
The Iowa baseball team will try to make up some ground in the Big Ten standings when it travels to Indiana this weekend for a four-game set. Iowa - 9-17, 1-7 in conference - sits in the cellar of the league but is only two games back of a five-way tie for fifth.
"Good solid baseball teams win games," coach Jack Dahm said. "If we go and play like that, we're going to beat a lot of teams that we play against … We just had a little more hop to our step, but it was also a point of emphasis that we talked about, that we have to get back to playing hard.
"Early in the year, I had every coach that came up to us say, 'Boy, We haven't seen a team that plays harder than you.' And all of a sudden, that stopped."
Dahm says Indiana has greatly improved over last year's 19-35 squad that finished 10th in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers have an explosive offense, but Iowa will try to force their error-prone defense into mistakes. The speedy Hawkeyes lead the league with 66 stolen bases.
"It just takes one weekend where we put everything together, get confidence going, and we can be in the hunt for it right away," said center fielder Caleb Curry, who is 21-for-25 in stolen bags.
"Good solid baseball teams win games," coach Jack Dahm said. "If we go and play like that, we're going to beat a lot of teams that we play against … We just had a little more hop to our step, but it was also a point of emphasis that we talked about, that we have to get back to playing hard.
"Early in the year, I had every coach that came up to us say, 'Boy, We haven't seen a team that plays harder than you.' And all of a sudden, that stopped."
Dahm says Indiana has greatly improved over last year's 19-35 squad that finished 10th in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers have an explosive offense, but Iowa will try to force their error-prone defense into mistakes. The speedy Hawkeyes lead the league with 66 stolen bases.
"It just takes one weekend where we put everything together, get confidence going, and we can be in the hunt for it right away," said center fielder Caleb Curry, who is 21-for-25 in stolen bags.
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