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Wolverines rally their way to walkoff win

GREEN MOUNTAIN — The GMG baseball team rallied from a 4-2 deficit to defeat Dunkerton 5-4 in last Wednesday’s (June 21) Iowa Star Conference collision. The Wolverines (6-12) scored three times in the bottom of the seventh inning to chase down the Raiders (6-8). Brayden Duden and Grady ...

Vaverka drives in game-winner for Rebels

LA PORTE CITY — The Gladbrook-Reinbeck baseball team broke a 5-all tie in the top of the seventh inning to beat Union Community 6-5 in last Tuesday’s (June 20) North Iowa Cedar League contest. Austin Vaverka drove in the go-ahead run for the Rebels, who had 10 hits. Drew Eilers finished ...

Rebels break free to beat back Cougars

REINBECK — Gladbrook-Reinbeck broke a 3-all tie with six runs in the fourth inning as the Rebel baseball team defeated Sumner-Fredericksburg 10-6 on Tuesday, June 13. Caleb Egesdal went 3-for-5 at the plate with four RBIs to lead G-R (15-9) at the plate. Luke Riffey was 2-for-4 with two ...

5-inning perfecto propels East Marshall past GMG

GILMAN — Carter Anderson pitched a five-inning perfect game and the East Marshall baseball team blanked GMG 10-0 in Tuesday’s (June 13) run rule-shortened contest. Anderson struck out nine and walked none in the complete-game performance, needing just 55 pitches to mow down the Wolverines ...

Wolverines make quick work of STC

TAMA — A well-rounded GMG softball lineup made quick work of South Tama County in a 15-0, three-inning victory at STC High School on Tuesday, June 13. The Wolverines (6-7) put up eight runs in the first inning and cruised past the winless Trojans (0-16), completing the season sweep of ...

Rebels edge East Marshall in NICL West play

GILMAN — The Gladbrook-Reinbeck baseball team scratched and clawed to a 5-3 victory over East Marshall in last Thursday’s (June 8) NICL West Division showdown. Neither team scored more than two runs in an inning as G-R (13-8, 6-1) earned its fifth straight win. Nick Tscherter pitched 5 ...

GC/G-R trio on all-state 1st team

Grundy Center/Gladbrook-Reinbeck boys soccer has three representatives on the top team of the Class 1A all-state teams released recently by the Iowa High School Soccer Coaches Association. Seniors Tyler Nolder and Austin Betts, as well as junior Isaac Clark, earned first-team spots. Nolder ...

Rebels suffer first loss in 1A title match

DES MOINES — Grundy Center/Gladbrook-Reinbeck boys soccer found themselves in unfamiliar territory in more ways than one last Saturday morning. GC/G-R fell behind early in the second half and took their first and only loss of the season in a 2-0 defeat to Western Christian in the Class ...

Rebels strike fast, sail away from Columbus

DES MOINES – Grundy Center/Gladbrook-Reinbeck boys soccer didn’t waste time in putting up numbers at the state tournament. The Rebels scored before the timekeeper could even remember to start the scoreboard clock, sending GC/G-R on its way to a 4-0 victory over Waterloo Columbus in a ...

Rebels returning to state

REINBECK — The feeling of missing out on the state soccer tournament on Grundy Center/Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s home field last year was a gut punch to the Rebels. A pain so awful that the Rebels have put in the work to make sure they’ve yet to experience it once this year — on their field ...