Sunday afternoon was sunny, warm and pleasant. If you made it over to the Hawkeye athletics area, near the Hawkeye athletics hall of fame building, you could have bounced between two Hawkeye games. At Grant Field, the Iowa field hockey team was taking on Michigan. Just a few yards to the west, the women’s soccer team was competing against Penn State.
Finding a win was a little harder.
The Hawkeye lost both competitions today, and now both teams are on the down slide.
The field hockey team lost yet again, they now sit at 3-9. The team took Michigan into a 0-0 tie at the half, but was unable to finish, eventually losing 2-0. Not what head coach Tracy Griesbaum had in mind for the season. If coach Griesbaum is upset, she certainly has a lot of reasons to be. The Iowa field hockey team now has no chance of finishing the regular season above .500.
As I have harped before and will probably harp again, this team is young and needs time and patience. They have talent, now they need experience, which is coming hard and fast.
On the soccer side, the Hawkeyes lost to Penn State. In what could only be redemption for the football team's loss to the Hawkeyes last weekend, the Nittany Lions out worked the Hawks, raking up 25 shots and holding the Hawkeyes to only nine.
This is still one of the best teams in the Iowa athletics department, with an over all record of 7-5-2. Although the team has lost three in a row, the losses have come at the hands (err…feet) of very tough Big Ten opponents. On any day, this team can be extremely dangerous.
It may have been a Sunday to forget for the Hawkeye fans, but for the players and coaches, this day offers a lot of valuable lessons. The future will tell us how much they learned.
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