DES MOINES — For the second consecutive year, the Iowa Newspaper Association’s Class A all-state team captain honor has gone to a Rebel. Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior middle linebacker Thomas Mussig spearheaded Class A’s stingiest defense, helping the Rebels achieve their second-straight ...

CEDAR FALLS - For the first time since 2009, a team defended its state title at the Class A level.The second-ranked Gladbrook-Reinbeck football team used its best-in-the-state defense to fend off a late answer from No. 4 Bishop Garrigan to win its second-straight state title. It's the first ...

CEDAR FALLS - Coming into Thursday's Iowa High School Class A State Football Championship game, 96.4 percent of Gladbrook-Reinbeck's completions went to a receiver not named Matt Johannsen. Having just three receptions through the Rebels' first 12 games of the season, the junior wide out just ...

Points are expected to come at a premium when the two stingiest defenses in Class A collide in today's state championship football game.Second-ranked Gladbrook-Reinbeck, allowing a state-best 6.0 points per game, and No. 4 Bishop Garrigan of Algona, which has surrendered just 7.25 points per ...

REINBECK - The past two years, the passing game of the Gladbrook-Reinbeck football has taken a backseat to the run game. Now as the Rebels embark on their third-straight trip to the UNI-Dome, it's the passing game's turn to take center stage.When No. 2 Gladbrook-Reinbeck heads into its ...

CEDAR FALLS - The Gladbrook-Reinbeck football team has been so well-trained that doing the right thing at the absolute wrong time went unnoticed by the coaching staff.Thanks to defense that has become so synonymous with the Rebels' seven-straight trips to the playoffs, the untimely miscue was a ...

FORT DODGE While she can't remember much of last year's race, East Marshall's Melinda Puumala said the 2016 state cross country meet fared much better for the sophomore runner who was 45th (20:49.5) in Class 2A."I can't really remember much of last year, so I can't really compare," Puumala ...

GLADBROOK It wasn't pretty, but the Gladbrook-Reinbeck football team was the one to come out on top. Because the Rebels survived, they're advancing.Second-ranked G-R allowed No. 10 Lynnville-Sully to score on the first possession of the game, but the Rebels played bend-but-don't-break-defense ...

FORT DODGE The goal was to improve on last year's eighth-place team finish for the East Marshall boys' cross country team. And despite that not happening with a ninth-place finish in Class 2A at this year's Iowa High School State Cross Country Championships at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course, ...

GLADBROOK - It wasn't pretty, but the Gladbrook-Reinbeck football team was the one to come out on top. Because the Rebels survived, they're advancing.Second-ranked G-R allowed No. 10 Lynnville-Sully to score on the first possession of the game, but the Rebels played bend-but-don't-break-defense ...