The Hawkeyes looked rusty on defense on Friday night at Dallas Baptist University, and were mostly quiet at the plate as well, wasting a stellar starting pitching performance by senior Tyler Peyton to lose 5-1.
After the teams combined to produce scoreless frames through the first two innings, the third inning was a foreshadowing of things to come. A one-out DBU single was followed by a throwing error by Peyton and a passed ball by Iowa senior catcher Daniel Aaron Moriel to allow the runner to advance to third base. The next Patriot batter got a ball deep enough to score the run.