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Sieh, Brant lead G-R to regional quarterfinal battering of BGM

REINBECK – Seniors Elly Sieh and Kennedy Brant led the No. 8 Gladbrook-Reinbeck girls basketball team to a 69-21 battering of the BGM Bears here Tuesday night, sinking 28 and 25 points, respectively, for the Class 1A Region 8 quarterfinal win. G-R’s week off from the hardwood seemingly ...

Rebels upset Raiders to advance to district semifinals

DUNKERTON – The Gladbrook-Reinbeck Rebels boys basketball team opened district play on the road at Dunkerton Monday, Feb. 16, upsetting the Raiders, 68-52, to advance to the district semifinals. G-R (8-13) trailed the Raiders (13-9) by a mere point after the first quarter before flipping ...

Kupka rides to 1,000th career point, leads charge over Comets

CONRAD – Senior Rider Kupka led GMG to a 54-39 conference road win over the BCLUW Comets on Friday, Feb. 6, by scoring exactly half of his team’s points to join the coveted 1,000 career points club. The last Wolverine to make it to 1,000 was then-senior Jabari Woodbury during the 2023-24 ...

​​Lady Rebels roll into postseason with four-straight NICL wins

REINBECK – The Class 1A No. 8 Gladbrook-Reinbeck girls basketball team is keeping the hardwood well-heated just in time for postseason – rolling off four-straight North Iowa Cedar League (NICL) conference wins. Following a frustrating loss to Grundy Center at home on Jan. 27 and a ...

’Cats claim Alliance crown

WATERLOO — The Marshalltown boys’ bowling team came away from the Iowa Alliance Conference Tournament without a first-team performer, but that didn’t deter the Bobcats from reaching their goal just the same. Marshalltown claimed its first Alliance bowling title in the fourth year of its ...

Sienknecht holds her own at state wrestling

CORALVILLE – North Tama freshman Alaney Sienknecht made her state wrestling debut on Thursday, Feb. 5, in a first-round morning bout with the No. 1 seed at 155 pounds, Western Iowa’s Marlee Pittet. And while she was eventually pinned in the second period, Sienknecht, who hails from rural ...

Sanders’ late surge helps power GMG to win over Tripoli

GARWIN — The GMG girls’ basketball team fought off Tripoli for a 37-32 victory in the Thursday, Jan. 29 Iowa Star Conference cross-division contest. The Wolverines (8-8) shot just 9-of-25 at the free-throw line but still sent the visiting Panthers (7-10) away empty-handed following a ...

Union/G-R wrestling pair narrowly miss cut at girls state-qualifying tourney

DENVER – The Union/Gladbrook-Reinbeck girls’ wrestling team ended the 2025-26 season in Denver on Friday, Jan. 30, coming up short at the Class 1A Region 4 qualifying meet of advancing any individual wrestlers to the state tournament set for this week. The closest Union came was freshman ...

Sienknecht State-Bound!

WYOMING – In her freshman season on the mats for North Tama, rural Gladbrook student-athlete Alaney Sienknecht is headed to the state tournament. During last Friday’s Class 1A Region 5 state qualifier at Midland, Sienknecht closed out the meet by outlasting West Branch junior Gisele ...

Brant becomes G-R’s all-time scoring leader; reaches 1,000 boards

REINBECK – Rebel senior forward Kennedy Brant added two more achievements to her storied high school basketball career here on the evening of Thursday, Jan. 22, by becoming the school’s all-time girls scoring leader while also pulling down her 1,000th career rebound during Class 1A No. 4 ...