Minnesota
Iowa Baseball Sweeps Minnesota
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IOWA CITY, Iowa – An eight-run seventh inning despatched Iowa Baseball to a 9-3 victory and collection sweep of Minnesota on Sunday afternoon at Duane Banks Area. It’s the Hawkeyes’ second straight sweep of the Gophers.
“Getting a sweep is huge, particularly at dwelling,” stated redshirt sophomore Will Mulflur. “It’s good momentum for everybody on the staff, particularly going into a tricky one on the highway subsequent week. We now have to take care enterprise through the midweek, too, in opposition to Bradley.
“It was an excellent confidence booster with all people. The pitchers popping out and throwing strikes, at all times giving us an opportunity, the offense coming via. It felt like we had been capable of be who we’re this weekend and it labored out.”
The win is Iowa’s twentieth of the season, shifting the staff’s report to 20-12 general and 6-3 in Large Ten play.
Iowa trailed 3-0 on the stretch after mustering simply three hits over the primary six innings. The Hawkeyes got here to life within the seventh after they received to the Minnesota bullpen.
With one out, redshirt sophomore Kyle Huckstorf and freshman Ben Wilmes singled to start out the rally earlier than sophomore Michael Seegers drove within the first run with an RBI single to proper area, reducing the deficit to 3-1.
After Minnesota went to former Hawkeye Will Semb in aid, redshirt sophomore Peyton Williams’ RBI groundout made it 3-2. After Izaya Fullard walked, redshirt sophomore Ben Tallman’s RBI single tied the sport at three earlier than Will Mulflur’s two-run double put Iowa on high, 5-3.
“I used to be attempting to go up there and preserve preventing,” stated Mulflur. “I discovered myself in numerous two strike counts this season. I needed to see it deep with two strikes and get an excellent swing on it. I received it previous the third baseman.”
The Hawkeyes continued their hit practice with an RBI single from Sam Petersen and Wilmes’ two-run single pushed the result in 8-3. Iowa had eight runs on seven hits within the inning.
“The entire recreation we by no means stopped believing in our offense,” stated Mulflur. “We didn’t get off to the perfect begin. (Aidan) Maldonado was good early, however we stored at it and had been capable of put up eight. We by no means wavered with our confidence.”
Iowa scored its ninth run within the eighth when Williams doubled after which scored on a wild pitch.
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Minnesota scored single runs within the first, second and third innings in opposition to Iowa starter Ty Langenberg. The Gophers had six hits within the first three frames, however simply two hits the remainder of the way in which in opposition to two Hawkeye relievers.
Redshirt sophomore Benjamin DeTaeye allowed one hit and fanned two over two shutout innings and redshirt senior Dylan Nedved earned the win, tossing 4 shutout innings, fanning three.
“It feels good to offer your staff an opportunity,” stated Nedved. “It was huge to get these shut down innings so it might give our staff an opportunity to return again and win. We had been capable of get it achieved, so it was good.”
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“Large tip of the hat to Ben, he got here into the sport and settled it down. Then Dylan closed it out. To throw zeros up as soon as we go to the bullpen was an important signal and an important factor to see.
“To get a win right now, particularly coming again late like that, it was good for the arrogance and psyche of the staff. To do it with a bunch of men out of the lineup, it says so much about our tradition and the toughness of the group now we have. It was numerous guys stepping up and getting the job achieved. It was an excellent staff win right now.”
The Hawkeyes will host Bradley on Tuesday at 6:05 p.m. (CT) at Duane Banks Area.
Again-to-back RBI singles from Izaya Fullard and Ben Tallman within the fifth inning propelled Iowa baseball to a 2-1, come-from-behind, series-clinching victory on Saturday afternoon.
Sophomore Michael Seegers began the fifth with a one-out single to proper area. After Seegers stole second, Fullard bounced a two-out single up the center and the ball caromed off Brady Counsell’s glove into shallow left area. Seegers scored on the play and Fullard moved to second on the throw.
The heady base operating paid off as Tallman adopted with a success to almost the identical spot, singling dwelling Fullard to offer the Hawkeyes a 2-1 lead.
“There was a giant two-out hit by Izaya to get us again to even and I knew I wanted to comply with up with that,” stated Tallman. “I struck out on two off-speed pitches earlier within the recreation, so I received up within the depend and was on the lookout for a fastball I might deal with. That was my method and I received it achieved.”
Redshirt sophomore Adam Mazur struck out a season-high 11 batters over eight inning and the bash brothers – Keaton Anthony and Peyton Williams – each homered, main Iowa to a 9-3 series-opening win on Friday.
Mazur gave up two unearned runs within the first innings on a pair of Hawkeye errors, however the right-hander dealt from there on. The Woodbury, Minnesota, native retired 21 of the subsequent 24 batters he confronted. He allowed three runs (one earned) on six hits and didn’t stroll a batter to enhance to 3-2. Iowa strikes to 18-12 — a season-high six video games over .500 — and 4-3 in Large Ten play.
“I felt good right now. I needed to exit and compete and fill the zone and I used to be ready to try this,” stated Mazur, who tied a career-high, going eight innings. “I had numerous nice protection behind me backing me up, that made it so much simpler.”
Minnesota’s 2-0 lead was short-lived as Iowa tied the rating at two within the backside of the primary. After Williams reached on a hit-by-pitch, Anthony belted a two-run homer down the left area line to tie the sport.
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Minnesota
Local View: Klobuchar owes Minnesota seniors visible actions on health reforms
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Politicians projecting an image of themselves that’s not entirely accurate is nothing new. Try as she does with her always-on media presence, Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is apparently no different. This seems especially true when it comes to health care programs older Minnesotans rely on and reigning in large integrated corporations. This seems doubly evident when it comes to how President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act relates to the business practices of Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group.
Sen. Klobuchar misses few opportunities to tout her support, if not ownership, of the federal spending bill’s changes to Medicare. She and other progressives in Washington, D.C., promised it would drive down consumer prices and lower drug costs for seniors in Medicare. Despite such statements, it hasn’t worked out that way.
Not at all, actually. A full year after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act,
polling
by the D.C. nonprofit
American Commitment
showed nearly 85% of older Americans said prices for goods and services had gone up, not down. Less than 11% said the costs of their prescription drugs had decreased. All told, nearly 80% viewed the costly legislation as a “failure.” Just ask older Minnesotans if their drug costs have gone up or down. Then ask the same about their Medicare premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. What they’re seeing with their own eyes does not comport with what Biden and Klobuchar are trying to sell us.
Klobuchar also fails to stress what few seniors probably know, that buried in the bill’s small print were provisions to immediately
divert more than $250 billion
in projected Medicare drug savings to other spending measures. This included billions in large subsidies paid to big insurers, tax credits for electric-vehicle buyers, and other questionable handouts unrelated to the Medicare program — largely doled out before the ink was dry.
Big insurers will also benefit from new government price controls that lower the costs of medicines they have to cover. Meanwhile, most of the drug pricing “savings” provisions sold to seniors had delayed, years-long implementation schedules.
Making matters worse, since passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, older Americans in Medicare Advantage have been socked with skyrocketing premiums and out-of-pocket costs imposed by big insurers and their pharmacy benefit manager middlemen. Then add
recent drug shortages
and warnings of new potential patient access restrictions — and
allegations of insurers overcharging Medicare billions
and
using AI to deny patients
care — and it seems clear our health care problems are likely getting worse.
Yet, even as these troubling issues and critical accountability measures have emerged, including bipartisan reforms to prevent big insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from pocketing massive drug-price rebates rather than passing them on to patients, Klobuchar has been largely AWOL. The same goes for conducting oversight on the handful of giant integrated health care conglomerates, including UHG, that control so much of the system. The latter is especially noteworthy considering she chairs the powerful Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee and is in a great position to do so.
Nowhere has there been more consolidation than in the health care industry, a massive sector of our economy that impacts nearly every citizen and consumer, young and old. Through acquisitions and a little help from government entitlement programs like Medicare and Obamacare, UHG has grown to be one of the biggest corporations in the world. In addition to being the biggest provider of Medicare Advantage plans,
it also owns
some of America’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, pharmacies, surgical centers, physician practices, surgical centers, and large home health companies, earning it north of $370 billion last year.
Additionally, UHG maintains a financial partnership with the supposed seniors’ advocate AARP, one that has now paid the organization over
$8 billion
in royalties and fees. The AARP, too, is notably quiet in calling for reforms for big insurers and pharmacy benefit managers.
Much of this came into play just a few weeks ago in Washington when Congress examined the far-reaching structure and practices of UHG in relation to the systemic cyberattack on health IT giant Change Healthcare. Even as Democrats, Republicans, the
U.S. Department of Justice
, and other agencies busily call out the potential threats such integrated health cartels pose, Klobuchar, along with the well-funded AARP, remain curiously inactive.
While some might not fault Klobuchar for having loyalty to the president or a large home-state employer, the glaring discrepancies between what she says, what she does, and what she seems to willfully ignore — when two of her supposedly signature reform issues collide — are cause for great concern. Older Minnesotans now expect visible action, and Sen. Klobuchar owes them no less.
Bob Johnson of The Villages, Florida, is a retired Minnesota trade association executive and the former president of the
Insurance Federation of Minnesota
(insurancefederation.org). He serves as an advisor to
Commitment to Seniors
(commitmenttoseniors.org), a project of
American Commitment
(americancommitment.org), a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., that’s critical of AARP.
Minnesota
Flag Football Growing Women's Sports in Minnesota
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The day’s local, regional and national news, detailed events and late-breaking stories are presented by the ABC 6 News Team, along with the latest sports, weather updates including the extended forecast.
(ABC 6 News) — Over the past few weeks 4 flag football teams in Southeastern Minnesota have been meeting to grow women’s sports. Pine Island, Kasson-Mantorville, La Crescent, and Rosemount have been rotating hosts for this unique opportunity.
Just a few weeks in and all the teams are receiving plenty of support from the community. Even to begin the sport the Minnesota Vikings have provided grants in order to cover equipment and official costs. Allowing anyone and everyone the opportunity to play.
Minnesota
Diver drowns attempting to recover sunken machinery in northern Minnesota
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CRANE LAKE, Minn. — An investigation is underway after a 50-year-old man died early Sunday afternoon while scuba diving in a northern Minnesota lake.
The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office says the man had been assisting a group of people in recovering a piece of sunken machinery in approximately 70 feet of water at Crane Lake.
The diver had failed to resurface after spending a “period of time” underwater, authorities say. Those on the scene began rescue efforts before first responders arrived to help.
The man was pulled to the shore and pronounced dead, according to the sheriff’s office.
Authorities say the man had been trained as a scuba diver but was not affiliated with any recovery or salvage company.
The victim’s name will be released at a later time.
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