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A phone call the morning of opening day ended the UNI baseball program

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary about the name flashing on the caller ID.

Rick Heller did not think anything of it when he received a phone call from Troy Dannen as he sat in his hotel room in Little Rock, Arkansas, ahead of Northern Iowa’s 2009 season opener.

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Zach Zirbel, one of the UNI Baseball team captains, talks with reporters after it was officially announced that the UNI baseball program will end after this season. He is pictured at the McLeod Center on the University of Northern Iowa campus in Cedar Falls Monday, Feb.