April 17, 2006

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA . . . The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) announced today that University of Dubuque track and field performer Daunta Peterson (Tampa, Fla./Howard W. Blake) and Wartburg College softball player Cari Kinzenbaw (Ladora, Iowa/HLV) have been named the IIAC Male and Female Athletes of the Week for the period ending Sunday, April 16. The Conference also announced the Performers of the Week for each of the Conference’s six sports in competition during the week.

Men’s Track & Field – Daunta Peterson, University of Dubuque, Tampa, Fla./Howard W. Blake
Peterson, a senior, qualified for the NCAA Championships in two events at the Loras Mid-Week Invitational. He was a member of the winning 4x100 relay team that won the event and automatically qualified for the NCAA Championships with a time of 41.11 seconds. Peterson ran the second leg with a 9.97 split. He finished second in the 100-meter dash and provisionally qualified with a time of 10.80 seconds. He also finished second in the 200-meter dash in a time of 22.29.

Softball – Cari Kinzenbaw, Wartburg College, Ladora, Iowa/HLV
Kinzenbaw, a senior short stop, hit .769 (10-for-13) with four triples, a double, six RBI and eight runs scored in four games during the week. She slugged 1.462 during the week and had four multi-hit games, including two three-hit performances and two two-hit performances. She went 2-for-3 with a double in a 5-0 win over Loras and went 3-for-4 with two triples, three RBI and three runs scored in an 11-3 win over Loras. In a doubleheader sweep of Dubuque, she went 2-for-3 with a triple and run scored in game one (a 1-0 win) then went 3-for-3 with a triple, three RBI and four runs scored in game two (an 11-1 win).

Baseball – Brian Greiner, Wartburg College, Des Moines, Iowa/Lincoln
Greiner, a senior catcher, hit .533 (8-for-15) with a double, triple, home run, six RBI and six runs scored in four games during the week. He became Wartburg’s career RBI leader, moving to 171 all-time. In a doubleheader split with Simpson, Greiner had one hit in each game, scoring a run in the first game (a 6-3 loss) and driving in a run in the second game (a 3-2 win). He went 2-for-4 with a double, home run, three RBI and a run in a 10-6 win in game one of a doubleheader against Cornell. In the second game, a 26-3 Knight victory, he went 4-for-4 with a triple, four runs scored and two RBI.

Men’s Golf – Kevin Ault, Wartburg College, Fort Dodge, Iowa/Fort Dodge
Ault, a senior, tied for second at the 103-golfer Buena Vista Invitational with a 4-over-par 148 (68-80). His first round 68 was the tournament’s low round, tied for Wartburg’s team low round of the season and the second lowest round of the season in the Conference. He finished one stroke behind Medalist John Treacy of St. Thomas (Minn.) and was tied with Nebraska Wesleyan’s Aaron Stockton.

Men’s Tennis – Nick Cochrane, Central College, Fort Dodge, Iowa/Fort Dodge
Cochrane, a senior, went 3-1 during the week including two victories at #1 singles. He defeated Division II Truman State’s Tyler Wood (6-0, 6-3) and Simpson’s Martin Zivadinovic (6-1, 6-1). Cochrane and doubles partner Ryan Dierks split two matches at #1 doubles, an 8-5 win over Simpson and an 8-2 loss to Truman State.

Women’s Track & Field – Caroline Capper, Simpson College, Washington, Iowa/Washington
Capper, a senior, had five top-three finishes, including three individual titles in two meets during the week. She won the hammer at the Loras Midweek Invitational (172-5) and the Cornell Relays (171-11), and won the shot put at Cornell (42-0). She provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships in the shot put with a third-place finish at Loras (42-4.75), the third event in which she has PQ’ed this spring (hammer and javelin). Capper finished second in the javelin (109-2) at Cornell, eighth in the javelin (106-0) and 11th in the discus (115-11) at Loras.

Other Outstanding Weekly Performers
The IIAC also recognized the following outstanding athletic performances from the past week.

• Central College senior catcher Adam Duerfeldt (Urbandale, Iowa/Urbandale) hit .615 (8-for-13) with a double, three RBI and four runs scored. He had three multi-hit games including two three-hit performances during the week.

• Simpson College senior pitcher Bradi Smith (Lacona, Iowa/Southeast Warren) went 2-0 with one save, a 0.91 ERA and 26 strikeouts in three games during the week. Smith had complete game victories over Central and Cornell, striking out 13 and 12 batters respectively. She tied the school record with her fourth save of the season in the second game of the Central doubleheader.

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