DIKE - McKaylie Coleman scored eight team points on a second-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles, leading the East Marshall girls' track and field team to a third-place finish (69 points) Tuesday at the Lady Simons Relays.Coleman ran a 1 minute, 12.16 second-race, finishing behind BCLUW's ...
REINBECK - Bryce Schick had eight saves for the Class 1A No. 3 Grundy Center/Gladbrook-Reinbeck boys. Avery Dugger had six for Decorah. When the final horn sounded, Dugger would be wishing he had two more to tie.Erik Knaack found the back of the net twice, once in each half, to help the Rebels ...
GRUNDY CENTER - Jesper Holke-Farnam made an example out of himself.The Grundy Center senior wants to leave the Spartan boys' golf program with its strong tradition intact, and he used his struggles on the sixth hole on his home course to talk about what it's going to take for that to ...
LAPORTE CITY - The Grundy Center/Gladbrook-Reinbeck had no problems dispatching the Union tennis team in a 7-2 win Monday night.Tjaden Meester, Chase Boren, Garrett Weldon, Jordan Hook and Sam Ollendieck all won their singles matches. Meester had some extra fun, winning 7-6, 7-5 in his matches. ...
REINBECK - He'd heard it all before."Keep your head up."One hackneyed phrase after another."Who cares what people say?"The clichs had become commonplace."Control what you can control."His parents' words coming out of his own mouth."It's not a good deal, but you've got to fight through it."The ...
LE GRAND - For the second-straight evening, the late-March weather cooperated and competing teams got a chance to set their marks for the upcoming season at the 2017 East Marshall Boys' Early Bird Relays on Tuesday.Madrid ran away with the team title, touting one of the best throws in the state ...
GRIMES - Joe Smoldt will graduate from Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School as the seventh-leading scorer in the history of Iowa boys basketball. He received the coveted 2017 Mr. Basketball award on top of countless other honors during his career, and his playing days will continue thanks to a ...
The numbers speak for themselves. His commitment to his team speaks volumes. His love for the game is deafening.His numbers etched into the state's record books, Joe Smoldt's name is now synonymous with basketball.The Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior has been named as Iowa's 2017 Mr. Basketball, as ...
DES MOINES - Whenever there's thunder, lightning will follow. On Thursday night, Grand View Christian was both loud and flashy.In a barrage of offensive attacks and relentless defense, the No. 2 Grand View Christian boys' basketball team lit up the fourth-ranked Rebels and secured its first ...
Monday's Class 1A boys' state basketball quarterfinal game between No. 4 Gladbrook-Reinbeck and No. 5 Lynnville-Sully will be a rematch of sorts, except on a grander stage.The Rebels (24-2) shot down the Hawks (24-1) in last year's 1A substate match, a 49-41 result at the McLeod Center in Cedar ...