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  • Hawkeyes Roll Past Rutgers
  • High School Boys track results from Friday April 19th
  • High School Girls track results from Friday April 19th
  • High School Girls and Boys Tennis results from Friday April 19th
  • High School Girls & Boys Golf results from Friday April 19th
  • High School Boys and Girls soccer results from Friday April 19th
  • Hawkeyes Fall to Hoosiers
  • Iowa State Men's Basketball adds three players from transfer portal
  • Area Soccer Scores- 4/18/24
  • Iowa Women's Basketball lands Villanova transfer Lucy Olsen
  • High School Soccer results from Tuesday April 16th
  • High School Tennis results from Tuesday April 16th
  • High School Girls & Boys Golf results from Tuesday April 16th
  • Heiden Concrete & The Hoffman Agency "Athlete of the Week" 04/08 - 04/13

Two early defensive touchdowns propelled Iowa to a 27-10 win at Rutgers on Saturday night. After Rutgers opened the scoring with a field goal, Cooper DeJean picked off a pass and returned it 45-yards for a touchdown to get Iowa on the board. Then in the second quarter Kaevon Merriweather picked up a ball that was knocked out of a receivers hands on a first down catch and returned it 30 yards for a touchdown.

Iowa led 17-3 at half and then added a Leshon Williams touchdown run in the third quarter to help seal the game. Williams and Kaleb Johnson each had 64 yards on the ground.

Spencer Petras went 11-17 for 148 yards through the air. Iowa improved to 3-1 on the season and 1-0 in Big Ten play.

Rutgers quarterback Evan Simon went 28-49 passing for 300 yards but threw two interceptions. The Scarlet Knights fall to 3-1 overall and 0-1 in the conference.

Next up Iowa hosts Michigan for an 11:00 a.m. kickoff next Saturday at Kinnick Stadium.