It’s Friday, October 1st 2010, and the first full month of Iowa Hawkeye athletics has come and gone. (“They grow up so fast…”)
We all know about what the football team did in the month of September, but how about the rest of their black-and-gold brethren? Here is the first of a look back at the month that was, starting with a team began a 2010 campaign on the toughest two game road trip among any Hawkeye schedule.
IOWA HAWKEYE FIELD HOCKEY
Head coach Tracy Griesbaum said that the season opening road trip against #6 Wake Forest and #1 North Carolina would be a good test to start 2010. I had my concerns, starting with the argument that this is a relatively young team, (just don’t ask senior Sarah Pergine) that needed time to develop it’s playing style together. I was afraid that facing two top 10 teams in the first two games could be detrimental to the team’s confidence.
Unless, of course, the Hawkeyes could beat one of those teams.
Alas, the then #19 Hawkeyes ended up leaving Chapel Hill with an 0-2 start, which was not a big surprise.
What was a surprise is what came next: A 5-1 loss at the hands of Miami of Ohio, a team that should, at least historically speaking, be throttled by the Hawks.
After picking up a win over Brown on Labor Day, the Hawks then went on a road trip the next week to Kent, OH. Again, the Hawkeyes returned to Iowa City with an 0-2 road trip, this time losing to Stanford (in overtime) and Kent State.
The Hawkeyes picked up a much needed 2-0 win over Ball State on Saturday the 18th. (You remember; the cool rainy day when the football team played in a mystical land where the temperature was 100 degrees and the game didn’t start until 9:30 at night) Well, for the field hockey team, this was a good Saturday.
Finally, the Hawks traveled to the state of Michigan to take on #5 Michigan State and Central Michigan.
In the MSU game, Iowa only rattled off 3 shots compared to the Spartans 11, and lost by a score of 1-0.
In the final match of September, the Hawkeyes defeated Central Michigan 1-0. This was the third shutout of the season for sophomore goalkeeper Kathleen “Murdy” McGraw; she had two all of last year.
The team is 3-6, but has won two of the last three, giving hope to a still young squad with alot of talent.
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