February 11, 2021
Students are excited for a single day off from online lectures they were never attending in the first place.
Members of the student body are reportedly pleased with the University’s newly instituted Well- Being Break, claiming that it “almost makes up for” when the University tried to sue the Graduate Employees’ Organization in the fall of 2020.
“It sucked that the administration tried to punish our GSIs for fighting for better COVID regulations,” said Sam Pearson, an LSA sophomore. “But I think that having a random Wednesday off in the middle of February shows that deep down, UM might really care about us.”
Do you like bonus points? Then Iowa s dual meets against Purdue and Ohio State were right up your alley on Sunday. 15 of the 20 dual meet matches ended in bonus points. There were eight pins, four in each dual. There were also five technical falls and two major decisions. There was no shortage of points on the scoreboard on Sunday. The good news is that Iowa was the one dishing out lopsided losses most of the time; they recorded six pins (two each by Jaydin Eierman and Tony Cassioppi, plus one apiece from Spencer Lee and Michael Kemerer) and three of the five technical falls were delivered by Iowa wrestlers (two by Austin DeSanto, who continued his torrid scoring streak this season). The duals did feature more Iowa losses than we ve been accustomed to seeing, but that had more to do with the composition of the lineup and more reserves getting called into action than usual (mainly for COVID purposes). Of Iowa s seven losses on Sunday, just two were suffered by regular starters (#8
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Iowa s Spencer Lee continued his pinning streak this weekend and Virginia Tech s Sam Latona stepped up as a hero for the Hokies.
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Iowa notched two more wins despite COVID-19 absences
Iowa, despite being outside of the welcoming walls of Carver-Hawkeye Arena, had no problem downing two more Big Ten opponents on Sunday. The Hawkeyes got dominant efforts from top-ranked Spencer Lee and Jaydin Eierman, and key victories from bonus-point machines Austin DeSanto and Tony Cassioppi.
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ANNOUNCERS: Ray Flores and Jim Gibbons (Purdue); Shane Sparks and Tim Johnson (Ohio State) Last week was supposed to be Iowa s first triangular meet of the season, but Michigan s postponement put the kibosh on that. But we didn t have to wait long for some triangular action we re getting it this weekend in West Lafayette, with Iowa taking on Purdue and Ohio State in back-to-back duals (Purdue and Ohio State will also wrestle each other in another dual today). The big news out of Iowa City regarding these duals is that the Hawkeyes are going to be a bit shorthanded this weekend. Alex Marinelli remains out of action while he s in the COVID protocols and now he s been joined by Tom Brands, who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week. Brands has been coaching remotely and obviously will not be in West Lafayette matside for the matches today; Terry Brands, Ryan Morningstar, and Bobby Telford will handle the on-site coaching today. We wish Brands and Marin
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The Gophers wrestling team went 2-0 in a tri-meet against No. 18 Purdue and host Rutgers, securing the second victory when heavyweight Gable Steveson s second technical fall of the day rallied the Gophers to a 21-18 victory over the 17th-ranked Scarlet Knights on Sunday in Piscataway, N.J.
Steveson was one of five Gophers to go 2-0 on the day, including sophomore Patrick McKee and senior Owen Webster. Ranked ninth in the country at 125 pounds, McKee upset No. 6 Devin Schroder of Purdue 5-4, as Minnesota won the first eight decisions in a 32-4 victory. He followed that with a pin of No. 15 Nic Aguilar of Rutgers. At 184 pounds, Webster upset No. 10 Max Lyon of the Boilermakers and No. 15 John Poznanski of the Scarlet Knights.