Tanner Lafever

Look, are much tougher tests ahead? Sure.

But as far as season openers go, Friday night was a pretty darn good one for the Hawkeyes.

My recap of Iowa’s 44-0 win over Bellarmine - including some great 📸’s by @webcentrick:

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Iowa put together an impressive performance on Day 1 of the Missouri Valley Open.

13/15 Hawkeye entries reached the quarterfinals, and 10 of those advanced to tomorrow's semis.

Action resumes Saturday morning at 9:00am CT as Clarissa Chun's squad looks to keep things rolling.

The only thing up in the air about tonight's season opener for the #4 Hawkeyes was the occasional opposing wrestler.

And after taking care of Bellarmine in shutout fashion, attention turns toward the Cy-Hawk dual next Sunday.

After a slow-ish start, transfer 165-pounder Carter Schubert got the Carver crowd behind him with 15 unanswered points to complete a season-opening tech. fall.

Afterwards, he talked about his match and his early impressions of being a Hawkeye:
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Injuries have largely kept Leo DeLuca from competing the past few years - including his first as a Hawkeye.

But on Friday night, (perhaps) Iowa’s next great 125-pounder made his Carver debut and did not disappoint.

He talked about it all post-dual:
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