Union Knights football is now 0-2 on the season after suffering a tough road loss, 42-7, to conference rival, Class 1A No. 11 Denver last week after losing to No. 8 Aplington-Parkersburg the week prior in their home opener. The Cyclones came out blazing Friday night, running the score up 22 ...
Gridiron football was back in full force last Friday night in Traer as the Redhawks struck down the Belle Plaine Plainsmen on Dennis Field, 34-6, in a season opener that featured smart, plucky North Tama football that is hopefully a harbinger of the season ahead. A mere three minutes into the ...
With the loss of Redhawks Gabe Kopriva, Devin McKinley, Aiden Zook, and Michael Bell to graduation this past spring, North Tama football was in need of some new leadership on the gridiron. Following the team’s scrimmage with North Linn this past Friday night at home on Dennis Field – during ...
As the first games of the fall season inch closer, winter sports might be the furthest thing from a lot of people’s minds but not for North Tama’s head wrestling coach Andrew Knaack who’s been working diligently to put together a brand new girls’ wrestling program. The long-awaited and ...
It may be technically ‘offseason’ for high school wrestling, but for one of Iowa’s top female wrestlers – Union’s Jillian ‘Monster’ Worthen – there is no offseason and she proved that in the FargoDome on July 16 by earning All-American. The rising La Porte City sophomore along ...
North Tama senior Gabe Kopriva has been honored as the Iowa Star Conference South Division’s Most Valuable Player for the second summer in a row after a sterling season as an infielder and pitcher. Kopriva was North Tama’s leading hitter with a .433 batting average and 39 hits. He drove ...
Tough breaks and more than a half-dozen errors led to a Redhawks loss, 7-15, last Saturday night to fifth-ranked Don Bosco in the Class 1A District 7 baseball final in Traer. North Tama opened the game on a solid, hopeful footing – scoring two runs in the first courtesy of an error by the ...
West Marshall was feeling the tension. Leading Union 2-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning despite not allowing a hit, the sixth-ranked Trojans were sputtering against the visiting Knights in State Center Wednesday evening. It wasn’t until a two-run single by Trojans’ starting pitcher ...
A four-run second inning and solid pitching from Devin McKinley helped the North Tama baseball team advance to the Class 1A District 4 semifinals, picking up a 7-3 win over Hudson on Tuesday night at J.L. Lister Field. After no runs were scored in the first inning, North Tama (17-9) took the ...
What looked to be a routine victory after four innings for North Tama baseball had rapidly become a tense, pressure-packed battle heading into the bottom of the seventh inning last Saturday night. A 5-0 lead for the Redhawks became a 5-5 tie game, and with two outs in the inning, Adam ...