Duhawks climb to 2nd in IIACTebon picks up his 400th win as Loras (14-11, 8-6 IIAC) finds its footing in March

by Katie truesdale | sportswriter

The Duhawks have had their ups-and-downs this sea-son, but have rallied of late to move into second place in the Iowa Conference.

I n t h e i r l a s t seven games, the Duhawks are 5-2. During that stretch, t h e y w e n t o n a three-game win-ning streak, defeat-ing their cross-town rival Dubuque, 3-0 and 3-2; followed by a 10-7 win over non-conference op-ponent Dominican.

It was a good start to the con-ference season, said senior pitcher

Adam Schwoebel, who pitched a com-plete game shut-out in game one against Dubuque. We had a rough early part of the season with some growing pains. Were extremely young this year, and we kind of knew it was going to take us a little to start playing as one cohesive unit. Its been a little frustrating working through those problems, but its also promising knowing that we havent even played our best base-ball yet.

Last weekend, the Duhawks took their winning streak into Decorah, where they faced off against Luther in a pair of dou-

ble-headers on Friday and Saturday. In game one, the Duhawks came up

short to the Norse, 8-2. After only allow-ing two runs through the first four innings, Schwoebel allowed six runs in the final two innings and suffered his first loss of the season.

Game two against the Norse went in the direction of the Duhawks, as they respond-ed to the Norse win with a 7-0 victory. Senior Will Petrosky manned the mound for seven innings, striking out four bat-ters on the way to his first win of the year. Petroskys impressive pitching was backed by an opportunistic offense that scored seven runs on eight hits and left only four runners on base.

In game three, the Duhawks offense was not as impressive, but it only took a single run to top the Norse. In the top of the seventh, sophomore Thomas Johnson came in to pinch hit for the Duhawks, knocking a single into right field that scored fellow sophomore Tony Heiser from third. Pitchers junior Alex Steines and senior Connor Schreck teamed up to shut out the Norse and preserve the 1-0 victory.

In game four, the Duhawks were forced to use four pitchers all of whom struggled, giving up at least two runs. The Norses five-run fourth inning proved to be too much for the Duhawks, as Luther prevailed, 12-2, to tie the series at two.

Its important to take care of work against the teams that arent Wartburg or Buena Vista, Schwoeb-el said. Even though the conference is going to be decided in those two series, you can really set yourself back if you dont win the series lead-ing into those games. With the way

our offense has played and with our pitch-ers starting to find their stuff, we were able to make a bit of statement this weekend that will hopefully carry over for the re-mainder of the conference schedule.

This weekend, the Duhawks face a tough test in No. 13 Wartburg (23-6, 13-5 IIAC), the current Iowa Conference leader.

With playing Wartburg this upcom-ing weekend, I feel that the Luther series taught us exactly what we need to work on, said junior Nick Petruzzi. From a pitching aspect, we need to get ahead of hitters. In order to get Wartburg hitters out, we have to make them hit our pitch. Offensively we need to get on base more. Having four hits is not going to win many games.

8 The Lorian April 16, 2015 Sports

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Jordan Spieth was born July 27, 1993 26 days after me. He went to a small private Catholic high school in Dallas. I went to Nazareth Academy in La Grange Park, IL. He has two siblings, a brother and a sister just like me. He stands at 6-foot-1 and 185

pounds, a mere inch taller and ten pounds heavier than yours truly. On paper, were not so different. Only, hes a professional golfer who just won the Masters.

Im a disappointment.

Thursday1:15 p.m. Spieth tees off alongside

Henrik Stenson and Billy Horschel in first round of the Masters at Augusta National. Meanwhile, in Dubuque, Ryan eats peanut butter and jelly Uncrustable.

5:09 p.m. Spieth cans six birdies over seven holes to take the lead at 8-under through 14 holes, leads field after day one.

7:45 p.m. Ryan gets out of night class, gets stood up by date, goes to bar to spend money he doesnt have.

Friday9:57 a.m. Spieth tees off to start day

two. Ryan bullsh#ts a presentation that he just realized is due in an hour.

2:30 p.m. Ryan starts playing NBA 2K15 on his roommates PS3, proceeds to start season 0-5 because he lacks defensive fundamentals and cant figure out how to MAKE A FREAKING FREE THROW.

3:37 p.m. Spieth birdies the final hole, setting a 36-hole record at 14-under par.

7:05 p.m. Ryan arrives at work five minutes late, buys dinner from the vending machine, watches a mandated HR training video about the correct way to hold a camera.

SaturdayNoon Ryan wakes up, hung over,

just kind of lies there and stares at the ceiling for like twenty minutes.

2:55 p.m. Spieth tees off to start day three. Ryan arrives at the Maid-Rite diner to eat a late lunch/early dinner by himself, orders a pizza-rite, which he assumes is going to be like a pizza puff, but turns out to be this gray mystery meat patty with one slice of fried mozzarella cheese on top.

7:05 p.m. After hitting his second shot into the crowd, Spieth saves par on the par-four 18th to set the 54-hole record at 16-under par. Ryan gets ready to go out, gives pair of jeans the sniff test, they pass.

8:30 p.m. Ryan arrives at Easy Street to watch the Bulls barely beat the hapless 76ers, attempts to hit on some blonde girl from out of town, fails.

Sunday2:50 p.m. Spieth tees off to start the

final round of the tournament, needs to hold onto his 4-stroke lead to win.

3:15 p.m. Ryan finally brings himself to get out of bed, takes his first shower in three days.

6:53 p.m. Spieth bogeys the 18th hole to fall one stroke shy of tournament record, wins the Masters with an 18-under par, dons his first green jacket.

9:43 p.m. Ryan considers watching porn, decides against it, passes out while watching reruns of Louie.

MondayNoon Spieth cashes his $1.8 million

check. Ryan pays the city bill, which was $100 this month, for some reason.

8:54 p.m. Ryan writes editorial about Jordan Spieth, refers to himself in the third person like a douchebag, is failure.

season statistics(Through Saturday, April 11th)

BattingPlayer ............... G h rbi hr slg% ob% avgTony Heiser........... 24 32 17 2 .488 .448 .381Spence Bonner ...... 25 33 12 0 .441 .423 .355Nolan Ritter .......... 24 19 8 0 .328 .444 .328Patrick Walsh ........ 25 27 18 1 .458 .449 .325Luke Leibforth ...... 25 22 9 0 .324 .411 .297Adam Kennedy ..... 25 25 20 3 .471 .344 .287Cole Reeg .............. 25 30 15 1 .390 .336 .286Anthony Flattery ... 22 23 10 0 .329 .326 .280Lucas Jacque ......... 24 14 12 0 .295 .309 .230Totals ............... 25 239 129 7 .386 .386 .302Opponents ....... 25 233 141 11 .417 .384 .289

PitchingPlayer .......... app-gs ip w-l bb so avg eraAdam Schwoebel.....6-6 38.0 5-1 4 20 .272 3.79Alex Steines ............. 7-5 28.0 1-2 15 27 .268 4.50Will Petrosky ........... 7-7 32.1 1-3 29 24 .260 5.29Nick Spiess .............. 8-1 16.1 0-1 5 11 .203 5.51Patrick Walsh .......... 6-5 27.1 3-2 11 21 .270 5.93Kody Massner .........8-0 15.2 1-0 4 11 .269 6.32Connor Schreck ......9-0 9.1 2-1 4 7 .404 7.71Brad Schwind .......... 8-1 13.1 0-1 6 11 .478 13.50Totals ................ 25 197.0 14-11 95 146 .289 5.85Opponents ........ 25 197.1 11-14 89 118 .302 4.93

Senior Adam Kennedy

celebrates with his teammates

after scoring the Duhawks first

run in game one of their double-header against

Dubuque last month. Loras

swept their cross town rivals,

winning 3-0 and 3-2. Kennedys

3-RBI double proved to be

the difference in game two. He

leads the team with 20 RBIs.

photo by maddy cole

Since we last spoke...After giving up 52 runs in just four games in Jacksonville, IL, the

Duhawks pitching got back on track. Loras got

off to a shaky start in conference play, winning

three of four against Simpson, but dropping

three of four to Coe the following weekend. Since then, however,

the Duhawks have been on a roll, winning five of their next seven. After sweeping Dubuque,

beating Dominican and splitting their series with Luther 2-2, the

Duhawks have climbed to second place in the

Iowa Conference. Along the way, head coach

Carl Tebon picked up his 400th win on when his

team defeated Coe, 7-2 on March 27.

Changing the cultureDuhawks are still looking for answers in the face of adversity

by dustin dawson | sportswriterThe mens team

took to Pella this past Saturday where they squared off in Iowa Conference action against Simp-son and Central College. A prom-ising start against Simpson had Loras itching for that first win of the year.

The Duhawks were able to get out to a 3-1 lead, thanks in large part to senior Brian Falvey. Falvey won his singles match over Simpsons Peter

Reitgraf 6-0, 6-3, and then teamed up with first-year Zach Atzen to take down Simpsons No. 1 doubles team, 8-5.

Sophomores Ulises Hernandez and Neil Kane were able to secure anoth-er victory in the No. 2 dou-bles match, 8-2. However, Simpson would go on to take the next five matches to secure the 6-3 win.

We were fired up because of the chance of winning, said Hernandez. The possibility of the first win is around the corner. Well have to see come Saturday against Buena Vista.

Following their close call with Simpson, the Duhawks took on Central College. The Dutch handed the Duhawks a 9-0 loss, their ninth such defeat this year in twelve match-es. Falvey and Atzen gave the best fight, los-

ing 8-4 in doubles play.

The men return home this Saturday where theyll take on the Buena Vista Beavers (2-11, 0-2 IIAC). The Duhawks will look to use the home court ad-vantage to secure the long awaited first victory of the season.

We can take away the fire we had inside of us and see what the future holds in our last three matches with the season finale coming, said Hernandez.

I feel its my responsibility to change the attitude and what the program stands for, said head coach Ryan Troge. The remaining athletes stand for that concept and are on board with it. Ive seen this team turn from apathy and anger, to pride and passion.

mens tennis

Since we last spoke...The mens tennis team

(0-12, 0-4 IIAC) still finds itself in search of its first win. Since our last issue,

the Duhawks dropped seven matches. They scored in only two of those matches, a pair of 6-3 losses to both

Wisconsin Lutheran and Simpson.

ive seen this team turn from apathy and anger,

to pride and passion.Ryan Troge,

Head coach | mens tennis,,