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Wolverines open with a win

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GARWIN — GMG volleyball hopes it has set the tone for the season to come with a resilient, season-opening victory over BGM at GMG High School on Thursday, Aug. 29.. The Wolverines fought out of deficits in the first and third sets to secure a 3-0 sweep of the Bears (2-1), 25-23, 25-21, ...

GMG falls in Colfax-Mingo title match

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COLFAX — The GMG and East Marshall volleyball teams competed in the Colfax-Mingo Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 31, with GMG falling to Coon-Rapids Bayard in the title match. GMG (5-1) went 4-1 on the day with straight-set wins over Nodaway Valley (21-8, 21-16), East Marshall (21-17, 21-11), ...

Rebels return star power in search of next step

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REINBECK — Toughness drives everything that Gladbrook-Reinbeck football does. The Rebels have shown steady improvement since moving to 8-man in 2018 and reached new heights last fall as state semifinalists, making their first appearance in the UNI-Dome as an 8-man squad. G-R returns three ...

Numbers and experience are scarce for Wolverines

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GARWIN — GMG football will experience trial by fire this fall. The majority of the approximately 15 players Wolverines head coach Devon Diederichs expects to play for the 8-man squad this season are underclassmen, as GMG seeks to fill in for six seniors that graduated from last year’s 4-5 ...

GMG’s Teske tabs back-to-back honors

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GARWIN – GMG junior shortstop Colin Teske was named to the all-Iowa Star Conference’s South Division first team for the second year in a row, highlighting the list of five area baseball players honored to the league’s top squad. Teske garnered the third all-conference honor of his ...

Sienknecht named to all-division Iowa Star Conference South squad

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TRAER – The North Tama softball program continued its upward trajectory this season under second-year head coach Madonna Merchant by landing seven players on the Iowa Star Conference South all-division teams including former GMG pitcher Adelyn Sienknecht. For the second year in a row, ...

Dozen area baseball players recognized with all-district honors

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Twelve area high school baseball players were recognized by the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association on all-district teams released last Monday. In the Class 2A Central District, West Marshall’s Grayson Shaver, Owen Siegert and Beckham DeSotel earned first-team spots, as did Grundy ...

Coach Chuck Neubauer’s memorabilia returns to Gladbrook

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GLADBROOK – The Gladbrook Museum was fortunate to receive recently a little bit of memorabilia that harkens back to the heydays of the Gladbrook school community. On July 8, Glen and Carol Neubauer of Westminster, Colo. set up an appointment to meet Gladbrook Museum volunteer Jeanne ...