AMES — The University of Iowa defeated Iowa State, 20-13, on Saturday afternoon at Jack Trice Stadium in the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series. It was the Hawkeyes’ sixth consecutive road victory in the series.

Cade McNamara connected on 12-of-22 pass attempts for 123 yards. Jaziun Patterson led the Hawkeyes with 86 yards rushing on 10 attempts and a touchdown. Luke Lachey led the team in receiving with 58 yards on three receptions. Erick All had 32 yards receiving on three receptions.

On the defensive side of the ball Cooper DeJean led the team with 10 tackles (six solo), and DeShaun Lee had nine tackles (four solo). Sebastian Castro hauled in an interception which he returned 30-yards for a touchdown.

Drew Stevens was 2-for-2 on field goal attempts for Iowa hitting from 28-yards and 34-yards.

QUOTING KIRK FERENTZ

“Really thrilled to get the win. Really proud of our players, and coaching staff. We knew coming in here would be really tough, can’t remember a time when that hasn’t been the case. It proved to be that way. Little like two years ago, evolved into a defensive battle. Came into a tough environment, though everybody really stayed focus and played through the various things that took place out there.

We had some things that didn’t go perfect but our guys fought and played through that. We were trying to encourage our guys all week long to focus on improvement, we certainly played cleaner today than last week. We had four false starts, today we didn’t have a penalty. There weren’t very many penalties in the game. Ball security was good, that is always a big thing in a game like this. Bottom line is we have to earn the win if we are going to get it. Our opponent played extremely hard, that comes as no surprise. Really thrilled about it.”