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WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW: GMG Boys Basketball

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GARWIN – Two starters are back and two sophomores with varsity experience are expected to help bolster the GMG boys’ basketball team as it takes on the 2025-26 campaign. The Wolverines return their top scorer from a year ago in senior guard Rider Kupka, who averaged 15.4 points per game ...

WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW: GMG Girls Basketball

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GARWIN – The GMG girls’ basketball team returns six players with considerable starting experience for first-year head coaches Melisa Dieleman and Tammy Woodbury as the Wolverines look to climb the charts in the Iowa Star Conference’s South Division. GMG finished fifth in its division a ...

WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW: Rebels Boys Basketball

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REINBECK – First-year head coach Brett Bengen helped his alma mater get back to the state tournament for the third year in a row. He’s in for a much more challenging encore. The Gladbrook-Reinbeck basketball team graduated four starters and 86.7 percent of its scoring from last year’s ...

WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW: Rebels Girls Basketball

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REINBECK – The Gladbrook-Reinbeck girls’ basketball program scratched a 31-year itch when it advanced to the Class 1A state tournament last winter. The Rebels have a hankering to get back there again this season. Gladbrook-Reinbeck capped the 2024-25 campaign with the school’s first ...

GMG’s Hempy earns repeat all-Iowa Star South first-team honors

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GARWIN – GMG senior setter Hadlee Hempy repeated as an all-Iowa Star Conference South Division first-team pick this season. Hempy led the South Division with 129 assists; in total, she amassed 383 assists, accounting for nearly 90% of the Wolverines' setting game. She also had 58 kills, 109 ...

Rebels’ comeback comes up short

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CEDAR FALLS — Landon Blum’s leaping 10-yard touchdown catch with 3:40 remaining lifted No. 2 seed Woodbine to a 38-30 victory over No. 3 Gladbrook-Reinbeck in the Wednesday, Nov. 12, 8-Player state semifinal football game at the UNI-Dome. Blum’s catch came on fourth-and-goal and ...

’Cats can’t catch the clock at state

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IOWA CITY – The taper that helped the Marshalltown girls’ swimming squad chop off tons of time in qualifying for state had worn off by the time the Bobcats got there. Marshalltown sent five events into the pool at the Iowa High School Girls State Swimming Championships on Friday, Nov. 14, ...