​IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa had played five Big Ten matches this season and won none of them. The Hawkeyes needed 71 seconds after Rutgers’ third wave of substitutions to change that.Berit Parten finished top left off her left foot at 35:24 on Sunday afternoon at the Iowa Soccer Complex, and it held up for a 1-0 Hawkeyes win. Mike O’Neill had made eight changes in the five minutes and 13 seconds before it, four at 29:00, one at 33:04 and three at 34:13. When the ball went in, Olivia Bodmer, Lindsey Hailey and Tommi Valente were the only members of the starting eleven still on the field, and Valente came off at the same mark.The Scarlet Knights had a week to sit on their best result of the year, a 3-1 win over No. 14 Wisconsin on Sept. 27 that ended the Badgers’ unbeaten run, and Lilia Calvert was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week two days later for a goal and an assist in it. The running thread of the season has been a shot profile that reads better than the record. Rutgers came into Sunday having outshot its opponents 132-126. It leaves Iowa City outshot 141-139.Rutgers took one shot in the first half. It was blocked.Iowa came in having outshot its opponents 236-104, fifth in the country in shots per game and first in total corners with 99. Parten was tied for the Big Ten lead with seven assists and had registered a point in every match in which Iowa scored. Braelynn Galt, a freshman goalkeeper, had six shutouts in her first 12 college matches. Liana Tarasco and Iba Oching played for Canada at the 2026 U-20 Women’s World Cup in Poland, where Canada reached the quarterfinals, and Sofia Bush and Millie Greer are both on the Hermann Trophy watch list.Sunday went exactly to type. Fifteen shots, 10 corners, a goal from Parten and a seventh shutout for Galt.LineupGK: Olivia BodmerD: Julia Joseph, Morgan Hippeli, Lindsey Hailey, Patricia TsokosM: Gabriela Gil, Tommi ValenteF: Lilia Calvert, Reilly McGlinn, Ashley Baran, Marian DunneSubs: Sophia Stiles, Olivia Russomanno, Audrey Cain, Lily Ann Phillips, Jayme Malanda, Sarah Martinez, Amanda Thornton, Madelyn O’Neill, Riley Morris, Emma Johns, Dina BojkovicO’Neill sent out the same eleven that beat Wisconsin, and the with four forwards and two midfielders. Bea Tinoco, part of the first-half wave against Wisconsin, did not appear.The substitution count set a new high for the season, with 39 changes, 11 substitutes and 22 players. The first half alone had 11. Gabriela Gil was the first off, at 20:15 for Jayme Malanda. Then came four at 29:00, Stiles for McGlinn, Johns for Baran, Russomanno for Dunne and Thornton for Hippeli, then Phillips for Calvert at 33:04, then Cain for Joseph, Madelyn O’Neill for Tsokos and Morris for Malanda at 34:13. Malanda and Johns were both replaced by other substitutes inside 16 minutes of coming on.The halftime reset was complete this time. Nine changes at 45:00 put all ten outfield starters back on the field together, the first full restoration since Purdue after