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Kiburis is all-state again

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A career-best season and a first trip to the state tournament as a player resulted in a unanimous second-straight appearance on the Class 1A Iowa Print Sports Writers Association first team, it was announced Tuesday, March 14. This is the third-straight year the Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior has ...

Kiburis three-peats as league MOP

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William Kiburis’s senior season with the Gladbrook-Reinbeck basketball team ended March 6 in a 57-47 loss to Remsen St. Mary’s at the boys’ state basketball tournament. His first appearance at state was the final notch in a senior year of big stats and big success, which culminated in a ...

State Team Bowling

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GMG’s Jayden Beichley competed Feb. 23 at the State Bowling Tournament as part of Marshalltown’s team at Cadillac Lanes in Waterloo. The team lost to Waterloo West in the first round. Beichley said going to state made him both nervous and excited. He was excited to go as a freshman, but ...

Rebels run dry at the Well

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Gladbrook-Reinbeck was flying early in Monday afternoon’s Class 1A state basketball quarterfinal at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Jumping out to a 9-2 lead in the opening minutes, leading 17-11 after one quarter and holding a 24-13 edge two minutes into the second, things were falling ...

Third time’s the charm

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On the face of senior Gladbrook-Reinbeck guard William Kiburis, jubilation and relief were one and the same last Saturday night in the MHS Roundhouse when the final buzzer sounded. All of the ups and downs were over — the Rebels, the No. 3-ranked team in Class 1A, were finally back in the ...

No. 11 Riceville runs past Rebels

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The Class 1A No. 11 Riceville girls’ basketball team forced nine first-quarter turnovers to distance itself from Gladbrook-Reinbeck for good, beating the Rebels 59-36 in last week’s Valentine’s Day Region 1 quarterfinal. Riceville (22-1), whose only loss was to 3A No. 9 Osage in the ...

Rebels fly by Eagles, 77-57

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Gladbrook-Reinbeck has been here before. For the third straight season, the No. 3 Rebels were in a 1A District final — and for the third straight year, they put themselves on the precipice of a state boys’ basketball berth. A dominant third quarter and consistent scoring from multiple ...

No. 3 Rebels drop 14 treys on HLV

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Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior Caleb Egesdal poured in eight of his team’s 14 3-pointers and the third-ranked Rebels ran roughshod on HLV for an 88-26 victory in the Friday, Feb. 17 Class 1A District 11 boys basketball semifinal matchup. The Rebels (21-2) faced Keota (21-3) in Tuesday’s ...

Kiburis piles up 46 points, breaks school record

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Mr. Iowa Basketball Joe Smoldt graduated from Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School in 2017 with most of the school records for boys basketball in tow. One of the few that slipped through his grasp got knocked off the charts on Tuesday, Feb. 7. G-R senior William Kiburis scored a school-record ...

Kiburis, Rebels beat down Bears

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Gladbrook-Reinbeck has high expectations this postseason. The No. 3 Rebels are the top seed in Class 1A District 11 and have dreams of making the state tournament after two-straight losses in the substate finals. Every journey begins somewhere — and G-R wasted no time in beginning its ...