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Comet volleyball sweeps GMG

GARWIN – BCLUW volleyball buzzed past GMG in a 3-0 sweep at GMG High School on Thursday, Sept. 26. The Comets, ranked seventh in last week’s Class 1A rankings from the IGHSAU, won 25-4, 25-11, 25-10 to improve to 13-3 overall and 5-0 in the Iowa Star South. For the Wolverines, Landry ...

Mid-Iowa Youth Beef Team kicks off 2024-25 year

TAMA – The Mid-Iowa Youth Beef Team is out of the chute for their 2024-25 meetings. Sunday, August, 25, the team welcomed new members with a tailgate at the Tama Livestock Auction. Team alum, Leah Mosher, was our guest speaker. Leah served as our 2018-19 President and continues to serve the ...

Redhawks rattle off sweep of GMG netters

GARWIN — The Class 1A No. 10 North Tama volleyball team handed GMG its first Iowa Star Conference South Division loss, defeating the Wolverines in three sets on Thursday, Sept. 19. The visiting Redhawks (12-12, 3-1) ran away with a 25-18, 25-19, 25-14 victory. Kruiz Ewoldt led North Tama ...

Spartans serve up G-R in four sets

REINBECK — Grundy Center volleyball fired up from a first-set letdown on Tuesday night. The Spartans locked in from set two and overwhelmed Gladbrook-Reinbeck with an aggressive offense, running off the Rebels in four sets at Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School. Grundy Center won 22-25, 25-12, ...

Brant marks 500th career kill

TRAER – Rebel junior middle hitter Kennedy Brant (front row, fourth from left) pictured earlier this month alongside her teammates in the Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School gym celebrating her 500th career kill. Brant recorded the milestone on Saturday, Sept. 7, in Traer at the North Tama ...

Gladbrook-Reinbeck gallops past Meskwaki for 88-0 district football triumph

GLADBROOK — Gladbrook-Reinbeck football is still figuring out how the pieces fit this year. The Rebels are making it work, posting their second blowout in as many weeks with an 88-0 win over Meskwaki last Friday at The Pit in Gladbrook. “It’s still early in the season,” G-R ...

Top-ranked Rebels runner-up at Redhawk tourney

TRAER – The 1A No. 8 Gladbrook-Reinbeck Rebels volleyball team took runner-up in the Redhawks Nest last Saturday, Sept. 7, at the North Tama Volleyball Tournament, finishing just behind the champions, 3A No. 13 Union Knights. On their way to the championship round, the Rebels swept Waterloo ...

Wolverines, Rebels among runners at Pine Lake

ELDORA — Grundy Center cross country junior Emerson Vokes cruised to an individual title at a South Hardin Invite held at Pine Lake Golf Course last Thursday, Sept. 5. Vokes, last year’s state runner-up in Class 1A, completed the course in 16 minutes, 32 seconds — almost two minutes ...

Lady Rebels compete at South Hardin Invite

ELDORA — West Marshall freshman Dalaney Eldridge finished third overall to lead area competitors at a South Hardin Invite at Pine Lake Golf Course on Thursday, Sept. 5. Eldridge clocked in at 22:10. Jesup’s Mackenzie Wilson won in 20:27 and Hudson’s Mollie Hansen was the runner-up at ...

Wolverines open with a win

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, ...