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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 ...

Sieh sets scoring record, selected for ‘Athlete of the Week’

REINBECK – After pulling down her 1,000th career point earlier this month, Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s Elly Sieh recently claimed another accolade by setting her school’s single-game scoring record with a mighty 40 points during the Class 1A No. 4 Rebels’ NICL 74-26 wipeout of ...

Bobcat boys bowlers bury Railsplitters

DES MOINES — The Marshalltown boys’ bowling team took two wins away from the Tuesday, Jan. 13, triangular at Bowlerama Lanes, beating Newton and host Des Moines Lincoln with a 3,277 total score. The Bobcats outlasted Lincoln’s 3,113 and finished well ahead of Newton’s 2,704 for the ...

No. 4 G-R girls overtake Jesup for NICL win; Brant continues to dominate

JESUP – The Class 1A No. 4 Rebel girls scored 19 points in the third quarter to overtake the J-Hawks and eventually notch their 10th NICL conference win on Tuesday, Jan. 13. Gladbrook-Reinbeck defeated Jesup (6-6) 51-44 for the road win after tying the J-Hawks, 10-10, to end the first ...

Rebel boys pull down narrow victory over J-Hawks

JESUP – The Gladbrook-Reinbeck boys basketball team marked the program’s third win this season with a narrow 40-39 victory over the Jesup J-Hawks while on the road Tuesday, Jan. 13. The winless J-Hawks turned the ball over 19 times during the game to the Rebels’ 15, while amassing three ...