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Women’s Soccer: Buckeyes break through against Iowa, beat Hawkeyes 2-0
Sophomore ahead Kailyn Dudukovich scored her second objective of the season, and the Buckeyes girls’s soccer staff notched their first convention win, defeating Iowa 2-0 at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium Sunday.
Ohio State (6-2-2, 1-1-1 Huge Ten) scored its first objective in 14 days, simply over 4 minutes into the sport when sophomore defender Sydney Jones fired a move from the highest of the correct facet of the field and located Dudukovich for a tap-in to log the rating.
Dudukovich stated she and Jones have an amazing familiarity with one another, and the objective was one thing they’ve labored on in apply.
“We’ve performed with one another for therefore lengthy,” Dudukovich stated. “This week in apply, we’ve actually been engaged on our runs within the field and simply being there.”
Iowa (3-5-3, 0-2-1 Huge Ten) almost opened the scoring simply 90 seconds into the sport as graduate midfielder Caroline Halonen had a point-blank shot in entrance of the objective however chipped the ball extensive.
The Buckeyes almost doubled their lead within the thirteenth minute when senior ahead Kayla Fischer completed off a cross from junior midfielder Peyton McNamara however was denied by Iowa redshirt senior goalkeeper Monica Wilhelm.
Simply over three minutes later, Ohio State threatened Iowa once more as Fischer despatched the ball from left to proper throughout the field to senior ahead Emma Sears, who discovered the again of the web, however the objective was disallowed as Sears was dominated offside.
Iowa had a disallowed objective of its personal within the twenty third minute.
The Buckeyes took a 1-0 lead into the halftime break together with a 2-0 edge in pictures on objective and a 9-4 benefit in pictures total.
Iowa threatened a number of occasions throughout the first seven minutes of the second half, however each crosses despatched into the field have been dealt with by Ohio State’s freshman goalkeeper Molly Pritchard.
The Hawkeyes almost struck once more within the sixtieth minute as sophomore ahead Elle Otto had a run at objective, however senior defender Talani Barnett disrupted the play earlier than Otto may get a shot away.
Barnett made one other key defensive play almost 5 minutes later, clearing a possible game-tying objective out of hazard with a header.
The Buckeyes doubled their lead within the 67th minute as junior midfielder Kine Flotre discovered the bottom-left nook of the web from the highest of the field after her preliminary free-kick try was blocked by the Iowa protection. Flotre’s objective was her first of the season.
Sears almost prolonged Ohio State’s lead within the seventieth minute with a shot from the left facet of the field that was stopped by Wilhelm.
Iowa had one remaining alternative to attain within the ninetieth minute, however Halonen’s header off a nook kick was stopped by Pritchard.
Ohio State picked up its sixth win of the season and its first in Huge Ten play. Head coach Lori Walker-Hock stated she was happy the staff’s offensive effort.
“The runs within the field right now have been actually good and powerful,” Walker-Hock stated. “It was quite a lot of motion, and it pulled their protection into uncomfortable locations, and that’s what we’re making an attempt to do.”
Alumni Day
Ohio State held its alumni day internet hosting a number of former gamers and coaches from the 30-year historical past of this system. At halftime, there was a second of silence to honor former Buckeye captain Amy Graeff Van Culin, who handed away in Could after a battle with lymphoma.
Damage replace
Graduate defender Olivia Sensky left the sport within the fifteenth minute with an obvious proper knee damage. Freshman defender Brooke Otto changed Sensky, and Walker-Hock stated she didn’t have an replace on Sensky.
Subsequent up
The Buckeyes proceed their Huge Ten schedule after they journey to Bloomington, Indiana, on Thursday to tackle the Hoosiers at 7 p.m.
Iowa
Iowa sues company accused of dumping disused wind-turbine blades at sites across state
The state of Iowa is suing a Washington state company and its executives for allegedly dumping tons of old wind-turbine blades around Iowa, in violation of the state’s solid-waste laws.
The lawsuit alleges that over the past seven years, Global Fiberglass Solutions has failed to properly dispose of decommissioned wind-turbine blades and stockpiled them at multiple locations across Iowa.
The lawsuit, filed in Iowa District Court for Jasper County, seeks payment of civil penalties and a court injunction to prevent any additional violations of the state’s solid-waste laws.
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Global Fiberglass Solutions and its CEO, Donald Lilly, are named as defendants in the case, as is Ronald Albrecht, one of Global’s corporate officers. The defendants could not be reached for comment.
The lawsuit claims that General Electric, which provides parts and equipment for wind turbines, and MidAmerican Energy, which owns wind turbines in Iowa, each hired Global in 2017 to recycle their decommissioned wind-turbine blades.
MidAmerican and General Electric paid Global “millions of dollars,” the lawsuit alleges, to cut up, transport, and recycle the blades. Typically, such blades are about 170 feet long and weigh roughly 16 tons.
Rather than recycle the blades, the lawsuit claims, Global instead dumped roughly 1,300 of them at four locations around the state: Newton, Atlantic and a site in Ellsworth that was used to store blades that were originally dumped in Fort Dodge.
At one time, the lawsuit alleges, there were about 868 blades stored at the Newton site, which was a parking lot for the former Maytag factory. In Ellsworth, Global allegedly dumped 400 blades in a field, directly on the ground. In Atlantic, 22 blades were dumped in a field, directly on the ground, according to the lawsuit.
State says company never posted bond ensuring blades would be recycled
In 2018, according to the lawsuit, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources began fielding complaints about the Newton site. In 2020, the department sent Global a notice of violation related to the sites in Fort Dodge and Newton, indicating the blades were not being recycled as claimed and had simply been discarded. Later that year, a similar notice was issued regarding the Ellsworth site.
In December 2020, the lawsuit alleges, Global agreed to a consent order obligating the company to “take a number of concrete steps to purchase, install, and commence using recycling equipment” to process a certain percentage of the blades according to a series of deadlines.
The company also was required to post a $2 million surety bond to defray state expenses should the DNR be forced to remove and dispose of the blades because of Global’s lack of compliance with the consent order.
The DNR then agreed to extend the deadline for posting the bond until April 1, 2021.
Global never posted the bond, according to the lawsuit, and so the DNR ordered Global to stop accumulating wind-turbine blades in Iowa and to remove all of the blades scattered at the disposal sites. Global didn’t comply with that order and in July 2021 the matter was referred to the Iowa attorney general’s office for legal action.
The state’s lawsuit against Global was filed thie week of Sept. 22, three years after that referral. It seeks a civil penalty of up to $5,000 for each day the company was out of compliance with Iowa’s solid-waste laws.
State records indicate MidAmerican has removed and properly disposed of the blades once located at the Ellsworth site, while General Electric has removed the blades from Atlantic and Newton — a task that was completed in June this year.
Global and its executives “dumped and abandoned 1,300 decommissioned wind-turbine blades in stockpiles across the state,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said in a news release. “We are taking action to hold them accountable.”
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Iowa
Iowa DOT trains for winter driving before it arrives
STORM LAKE, Iowa (KCAU) — Every year, just before winter, Iowa DOT snowplow drivers are put to the test in a simulation to freshen up their skills.
The Iowa DOT contracts with L3Harris Technologies, a company that operates a variety of simulations, to get drivers behind the wheel of a snowplow without being on the road.
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“The seat that the operator sits in is very realistic in the fact that if you are drifting over to the edge of the road and hitting rumble strips, your seat is going to shake,” Craig Bargfrede with the Iowa DOT said. “The controls in the simulator are very, very similar to what you will actually see in the cab of one of our trucks.”
Over the course of two hours, drivers are put through a variety of simulations pf scenarios they could encounter this winter.
“Large areas where high volume traffic, where you have cars all around the truck to rural roads that, you know, you only have two lane type roads… they’ll throw in fatigue scenarios,” Bargfrede said.
Once the person finishes their simulation, the instructor informs them how they did and what they need to improve on.
“Every operator that comes through there is given a score, obviously, but those that may end up on the lower end of the spectrum are just operators that when we provide this feedback to the garage supervisors that maybe trigger some remedial training and the actual truck itself and go through some additional training,” Bargfrede said.
DOT officials say this training has worked wonders over the years, ensuring their drivers are prepared for what’s to come.
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“The gist of this is to get our folks back into the winter mindset,” Bargfrede said. “We do some refreshers on winter driving skills all in a very confined, controlled environment, where, you know, mistakes can be made and learned from and it’s better to do it in that simulator than out on the actual roadway.”
Bargfrede also wanted to remind people to give plows space once snow arrives to help prevent any accidents.
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Iowa Hawkeyes QB Reveals Hilarious Response To Surprising Play
During the second half of the Iowa Hawkeyes’ Week 4 win over the Minnesota Golden Gophers, star running back Kaleb Johnson ran for one of his three touchdowns.
It was just another day at the office for Johnson, who has already racked up nine scores on the season, but on that particularly play, something very interesting happened.
Cade McNamara served as a lead blocker.
It was a rather shocking display for a quarterback, and after the game, McNamara was basking in the glory of actually delivering a block…kind of.
“I touched someone,” a smiling McNamara said, via Iowa sports anchor Owen Siebring. “I did lay a block. … He was already in the end zone, but I did contribute on that play.”
It was certainly a gutsy effort from McNamara, a you rarely see a quarterback willing to risk injury by taking on defenders.
It was made even more gutsy (and humorous) thanks to the fact that Johnson clearly didn’t need him.
In terms of throwing the football, McNamara struggled against Minnesota, going 11-for-19 with 62 yards. It was just the latest rough effort for the Michigan Wolverines transfer, who has thrown for 588 yards, three touchdowns and a couple of interceptions while completing 62.7 perent of his passes thus far in 2024.
McNamara transferred to Iowa in December 2022 and was expected to be the answer under center for the Hawkeyes, but that has not been the case.
He labored during his Iowa debut last season and ended up tearing his ACL after five games. Unfortunately, things haven’t gone much better for McNamara this year.
On the bright side, the Hawkeyes are 3-1.
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