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7,200 fans have packed Duane Banks Field the past two weekends
to watch the 17th-ranked UI baseball team. (Photo by Brian Ray)</strong> </div>
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<div><em> Sellout crowd sees Iowa baseball sweep No.
25 Nebraska on April 26</em> </div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><strong style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;">IOWA CITY, Iowa</strong><span> -- When
University of Iowa head coach Rick Heller was chosen as the man
to rejuvenate Iowa baseball he believed the Hawkeye fan base was
longing for and would support a winner. </span></p>
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align="left"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>He was right. </span></p>
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align="left"> <span><img shrinktofit="true"
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>Over the past two weekends, Iowa drew more than
1,200 fans in four home dates and a total of 7,271 fans in
consecutive Big Ten weekends, including a sellout crowd of 2,506
during Sunday's doubleheader sweep over No. 25 Nebraska.</span></p>
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align="left"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>"It means the world to us," said junior Tyler
Peyton, who pitched 8 1/3 innings of one-run ball in Iowa's 5-1
victory in the series finale. "We love playing in front of (the
fans). We want them to keep comping. They help us out a lot just
being there."</span></p>
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align="left"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>Fans have come in droves to see a team that is
among the Big Ten's best. Iowa completed its three-game weekend
sweep of the Cornhuskers -- its third Big Ten sweep and fifth
series win of the season -- to run its record to 30-11 overall
and 13-2 in league play, 1/2 game behind Illinois (13-1) in the
conference standings.</span></p>
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align="left"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>The Hawkeyes scored early in the April 25
series opener against Nebraska, plating three runs in the first
inning before holding on for a 4-3 victory. In game two, Iowa
rallied from a 2-0 deficit to eventually tie the game in the
eighth before winning, 3-2, in the bottom of the 10th in
walk-off fashion. In the finale, Iowa rode Peyton and the bats
came alive in a 5-1 win.</span></p>
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align="left"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>"This series win was huge, especially because
it is Nebraska," said senior captain Jake Mangler. "They've
always been known as kind of our big brother. We not only hung
in there and competed with them, but we swept them, and took the
series.</span></p>
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align="left"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>"It's big a big confidence boost moving
forward. We knew we could do it, but now we're through it."</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>Iowa's pitching held the Huskers to six runs on
21 hits and posted a 1.61 ERA over 28 innings. The defense was
flashy and nearly flawless, committing two errors on the
weekend, and the offense came to life. The Hawkeyes scored 12
runs in three games, hitting .320 as a team with six starters
hitting better than .333.</span></p>
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align="left"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>"That's who we have to be as a team," said
Mangler. "We have to throw well, play good defense, and hit. If
we can keep doing all three of those things we'll be in good
shape."</span></p>
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align="left"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>Iowa heads to a three-game weekend series at
Michigan from May 1-3 with 30 victories, giving the program
back-to-back 30-win campaigns for the first time since the 1989
and 1990 seasons. The Hawkeyes have 13 Big Ten wins, the most
for the program since 2010.</span></p>
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align="left"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>With 11 games left in the regular season,
Heller doesn't know where the Hawkeyes will be heading into the
2015 Big Ten Tournament in Minneapolis, but he knows the team's
drive won't change.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;"
align="left"><span>"We're going to continue playing them the same
way and go out and find a way to win," said Heller.</span></p>
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