CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — An early six run deficit wasn’t the way the Wartburg Knights had envisioned starting the Iowa Conference baseball tournament, but the Knights never doubted themselves Saturday and rallied to defeat Coe, 7-6, at Veterans Memorial Stadium for the title and the league’s automatic berth in the NCAA Division III tournament. “Down [...]

Community contributor Chad Cooper talks to Iowa Conference (IIAC) commissioner Chuck Yrigoyen about the baseball and softball tournaments and the conference as a whole.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Nick Stein will earn his degree this spring in athletic training, but the soon-to-be Coe College graduate is in no hurry to use it. He’s got other things on his mind. Such as a professional baseball career. “Every little kid’s dream, MLB,” Stein said, after Coe knocked off Loras, 6-3, Thursday night in [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — Maybe it meant something, maybe it didn’t. Coe swept Wartburg in a double-header to end the Iowa Conference regular season last week. The Knights still won the IIAC championship, but the Kohawks hope the twin wins will catapult them to a third consecutive conference tournament championship. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. [...]

The Iowa Conference has been an elite NCAA Division III wrestling league, but this year wasn’t a banner year. Just 12 wrestlers of the IIAC’s 27 NCAA qualifiers earned All-American honors. It is the lowest total since the conference had 11 All-Americans in 1995. Wartburg led the performances with seven All-Americans. Luther had three with [...]

Wartburg wrestling coach Jim Miller owns little interest in a swan song. He has been singing the same tune that has made his Knights an NCAA Division III power. Miller announced before the season this will be his final year leading the program with co-head coach Eric Keller taking over next season. Miller’s farewell tour visits [...]

The NWCA NCAA Division III poll was released Wednesday. Wartburg remains atop the national rankings. Coe and Cornell dropped four and five spots, respectively, following a couple rough dual performances the last week or so. Luther, Central and University of Dubuque made modest jumps in the latest rankings. NWCA D3 RANKINGS The Iowa Conference has 20 [...]

The Upper Iowa wrestling team is where Coach Heath Grimm anticipated at this point of the season. It won’t matter unless he can say the same at the end of it. The Peacocks, ranked fourth in NCAA Division II, crowned four champions and earned a runner-up team finish for the third straight year at the [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — Sorry, Freddy Jackson. You’re a big NFL running back and everything, but this Coe football team did something all four of yours never did. Go unbeaten. A 34-13 win Saturday afternoon over Central at Clark Field wrapped up a 10-0 regular season for NCAA Division III’s 10th-ranked team. It’s the 10th time [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — Remember that preseason Iowa Conference football poll? The one that predicted the Coe Kohawks fifth? Fifth! “Obviously, the conference didn’t think we were going to be that good,” running back Brendan Leiran said after Coe’s 35-7 Saturday smackdown of Wartburg at Clark Field. But they are good. Really good. Potentially top-ten ranked [...]