This article is dedicated to the memory of Tom Street who passed away in 2013. Tom was a great teammate and an even better friend. Expectations were high as the Gladbrook football squad approached their 1962 season. Coming off an Iowa River Valley Conference (IRVC) championship, the ...
On a cool November night, the lights shown down on Wentzien Athletic Field in Gladbrook as the 1961 Gladbrook Panther football team ran on to the gridiron to play the final game of their undefeated season. The Traer-Clutier Redhawks provided the opposition. Like most communities, Gladbrook ...
William Kiburis’s senior season with the Gladbrook-Reinbeck basketball team ended March 6 in a 57-47 loss to Remsen St. Mary’s at the boys’ state basketball tournament. His first appearance at state was the final notch in a senior year of big stats and big success, which culminated in a ...
A career-best season and a first trip to the state tournament as a player resulted in a unanimous second-straight appearance on the Class 1A Iowa Print Sports Writers Association first team, it was announced Tuesday, March 14. This is the third-straight year the Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior has ...
GMG’s Jayden Beichley competed Feb. 23 at the State Bowling Tournament as part of Marshalltown’s team at Cadillac Lanes in Waterloo. The team lost to Waterloo West in the first round. Beichley said going to state made him both nervous and excited. He was excited to go as a freshman, but ...
Gladbrook-Reinbeck was flying early in Monday afternoon’s Class 1A state basketball quarterfinal at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Jumping out to a 9-2 lead in the opening minutes, leading 17-11 after one quarter and holding a 24-13 edge two minutes into the second, things were falling ...
On the face of senior Gladbrook-Reinbeck guard William Kiburis, jubilation and relief were one and the same last Saturday night in the MHS Roundhouse when the final buzzer sounded. All of the ups and downs were over — the Rebels, the No. 3-ranked team in Class 1A, were finally back in the ...
Gladbrook-Reinbeck has been here before. For the third straight season, the No. 3 Rebels were in a 1A District final — and for the third straight year, they put themselves on the precipice of a state boys’ basketball berth. A dominant third quarter and consistent scoring from multiple ...
The Class 1A No. 11 Riceville girls’ basketball team forced nine first-quarter turnovers to distance itself from Gladbrook-Reinbeck for good, beating the Rebels 59-36 in last week’s Valentine’s Day Region 1 quarterfinal. Riceville (22-1), whose only loss was to 3A No. 9 Osage in the ...
Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior Caleb Egesdal poured in eight of his team’s 14 3-pointers and the third-ranked Rebels ran roughshod on HLV for an 88-26 victory in the Friday, Feb. 17 Class 1A District 11 boys basketball semifinal matchup. The Rebels (21-2) faced Keota (21-3) in Tuesday’s ...