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WATCH: Rick Heller recaps the Iowa Baseball fall season, Gold takes Game 3

On3 imageby: Kyle Huesmann10/18/25HuesmannKyle
Rick Heller recaps the fall baseball season. (Photo by Kyle Huesmann)
Rick Heller recaps the fall baseball season. (Photo by Kyle Huesmann)

The annual Iowa Baseball Black & Gold World Series concluded with Game 3 on Friday afternoon at Duane Banks Field, with Gold earning a 10-3 win over Black in 7 innings to clinch the series. During the fall, the Hawkeyes earned wins over Mississauga Academy, Missouri and Heartland CC, while Gold took two of the three in the World Series.

HawkeyeReport picked UNA transfer Matthew Delgado and freshman Brody Irlbeck as Co-MVP’s of the World Series. Delgado finished the series with five hits, a sac fly, four RBI’s and two runs scored. As for Irlbeck, he tossed 4.0 scoreless innings on the mound in a Game 2 win, while he had an RBI single and an RBI double in Game 3.

On the mound for Game 3, the Gold pitching staff held Black to three runs on five hits, with freshman right-hander Nick Terhaar allowing one earned run on three hits over 4.0 innings. At the plate, Black got RBI singles from Jaylen Ziegler, Brett White and Caleb Wulf, while Ziegler reached base twice. Meanwhile, for Gold, they tallied 11 hits, including a three-run home run from freshman Tate Slagle to make it 7-2 in the fourth inning. Four players had multi-hit games, including three freshman, Brody Irlbeck, Tate Slagle and Ben Toft, while Kellen Strohmeyer had two hits and a walk.

HawkeyeReport caught up with Coach Rick Heller after the finale of the fall schedule to discuss the standout performers from the Black & Gold World Series, how he feels about the depth on the position player side and where the development of the pitching staff stands going into the winter.

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