Wes Obermueller pitched 10 seasons of professional baseball. The Vinton-Shellsburg and Kirkwood Community College grad has taken over as pitching coach for his alma mater at the University of Iowa. The Hawkeyes begin their 2025-26 season Friday afternoon.
The University of Iowa baseball team begins its 2026 season next weekend in Arizona. While these Hawkeyes have some familiar faces at position spots, the entire pitching staff is very inexperienced, as 434 innings from last season either graduated or moved on to pro ball.
Here is another look at how Eastern Iowans and former University of Iowa baseball players are doing in the early going of the 2025 Major League Baseball and minor league seasons.
Here is another look at how Eastern Iowans and former University of Iowa baseball players are doing in the early going of the 2025 Major League Baseball and minor league seasons.
University of Iowa pitcher Cade Obermueller was taken by the Texas Rangers in the 19th round of the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft, but bet on himself that he’d perform well enough to improve his stock for 2025, not signing. He was correct, as the Philadelphia Phillies took him Sunday night in the second round.
Here is your fourth look at how Eastern Iowans and former University of Iowa baseball players are doing in the early going of the 2025 Major League Baseball and minor league seasons.
It has not been a smooth go so far this Midwest League baseball season for Cedar Rapids Kernels starting pitcher Ty Langenberg. The former University of Iowa hurler and Urbandale native had an 0-3 record and 7.79 ERA in nine starts. But he was terrific Wednesday afternoon, throwing six shutout innings to get the victory as his team blanked Peoria, 6-0.
Here is your third look at how Eastern Iowans and former University of Iowa baseball players are doing in the early going of the 2025 Major League Baseball and minor league seasons.
Iowa baseball unveiled plans to begin construction on a second phase of renovations to Duane Banks Field in the summer of 2026, pending approval from the Board of Regents at its meeting next week.
UCLA scored twice in the third inning and four times in the fourth to open a 7-0 lead en route to a 9-3 victory over Iowa in the semifinals Saturday afternoon of the Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament. That most likely ends Iowa’s season.
This was a game that didn’t matter. Iowa already had clinched a spot in the Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament semifinals, so it’s pool-play game Thursday night against Indiana was meaningless. The Hoosiers beat the Hawkeyes, 5-0.
Left-handed starter Cade Obermueller threw seven four-hit shutout innings, striking out 10 to lift Iowa past Rutgers, 4-3, in a Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament pool game Wednesday night. The Hawkeyes have clinched a spot in Saturday night’s semifinals against UCLA
The University of Iowa baseball team went 1-8-1 in its final 10 games of the regular season, swept last week by Oregon in a series that determined the Big Ten Conference winner. The Hawkeyes begin play Wednesday at the Big Ten Conference tournament in Omaha, Neb. It’s a tournament that has expanded to 12 teams and employs a unique new format.
Photo gallery of action from Iowa Hawkeye Baseball vs. Oregon Ducks at Duane Banks Field Saturday, May 17, 2025
Oregon smacks five homers, wins 13-4 to finish 3-game sweep in Iowa City to pass Hawkeyes and finish first in the Big Ten standings.
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