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Union softball drops road game to East Marshall

LE GRAND — Two home runs by the East Marshall softball team helped snap a five-game losing skid during last Thursday’s (June 1) 7-1 victory over Union. East Marshall’s Bailey Grant led off the second inning with a solo shot for the game’s first run, and Peyton Grabenbauer started the ...

Comets hit two homers to take down North Tama

CONRAD — The BCLUW softball team scored in five of its six at-bats on its way to an 11-2 victory over North Tama in last Wednesday’s (May 31) Iowa Star Conference South Division clash. The Comets (4-2, 4-1) broke free from a 1-all tie by scoring five times in the bottom of the third ...

Union softball opens season with a win at home before dropping two

LA PORTE CITY – Union softball opened the season with a 10-6 win at home over AGWSR on May 23 before dropping two games back to back – a road game to Class 3A No. 13 Sumner-Fredericksburg 7-0 last Thursday and home game to Dike-New Hartford 10-4 on Friday. So far this season, Mallory ...

North Tama softball wins slugfest with Baxter

BAXTER — North Tama softball powered past Baxter in the late innings of a 15-10 victory over the Bolts in Baxter on Wednesday, May 24. Trailing 9-5 after the fourth inning, the Redhawks scored four runs in the fifth and added six in the seventh to take the lead for good. Kinsley Even ...

Five-spot lifts Redhawk baseball past Baxter

BAXTER — North Tama baseball scored five runs in the sixth inning of a 7-5 victory at Baxter on Wednesday, May 24. Josh Dostal earned the pitching victory with four earned runs on five hits in six and one-third innings pitched, with four walks and four strikeouts. Dostal also had two runs ...

Union hurdlers earn medals at state track

DES MOINES – Union’s hurdlers made their mark on Drake Stadium last week during the Iowa co-ed high school track and field championships bringing home medals in two events including Sydney Anton in the 100-meter hurdles and the girls 4X100 shuttle hurdle relay team. A total of 11 Knights ...

Bruns takes on Union baseball head coaching position

The Union high school baseball program will be sporting a familiar face in a new role this season with Activities Director Michael Bruns taking on the head coach position. Bruns, a 2008 Union graduate who lettered in baseball for the Knights, was hired in June of 2021 as the district’s ...

Redhawk volleyball star signs with Wartburg

TRAER – A few days shy of graduation, North Tama volleyball star Shae Ewoldt signed a letter of intent to play for Wartburg College next season, a Division III school. With the support of her family, friends, and coaches, she committed on Thursday, May 18 in the Redhawks nest to officially ...

Merchant ushers in new beginning for Redhawk softball

TRAER – Following several losing seasons – including two full seasons with not a single win – and two different head coaches in as many years, Redhawk softball appears primed for a new beginning this year and the program’s new head coach Madonna Merchant is ready to make that ...

Lidgett runs a top-10 finish at state track

DES MOINES – North Tama distance star Grace Lidgett rounded out her high school running career with a 10th-place finish in the Class 1A girls’ 1,500-meter run at the Iowa co-ed high school track and field championships on Saturday afternoon at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. Lidgett – ...