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By JAMES ALLAN
hawkeyesports.com
MINNEAPOLIS -- When senior Nick Day stepped into the batter's box in the bottom of the ninth inning yesterday with one on and two out and the Hawkeyes trailing Ohio State, 2-1, University of Iowa head coach Rick Heller thought back to a previous game at Western Illinois.