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 ...
Sparks were certainly flying for Union Knights’ baseball on Saturday, July 2, in La Porte City during the Class 2A round one district playoffs. Following a rocky first inning in which Denver scored five runs to Union's one, the Knights rallied not once but twice for the hard-earned win, 8-7, ...
Although the season didn’t end this past Friday with a win for the Redhawks softball team, it certainly ended on a good note with the young North Tama team notching two wins overall this season – thereby ending a multi-season, 48-game losing streak – and a worthy showing against ...
Clarksville wasn’t the toughest opponent the North Tama baseball team has come up against this season. Coming in with a 1-12 season record, Clarksville was mitching up pitchers and trying to find its way through this game. In the other dugout, Redhawks sophomore Tyler Popelka was working on a ...
It was a stellar night of softball for the North Tama Redhawks against Dunkerton last Wednesday. With their bats smoking right out of the dugout in the first, the Redhawks resoundingly dunked the Raiders 30-9 in six innings – scoring 17 times in the last inning alone for their second win ...
A possible glimpse into Union baseball’s postseason was on full display Friday night in Denver and it was as exciting as ever. The Knights took on their NICL rival after a trio of losses including to Wapsie Valley at home Thursday night. But the Knights blew past the Denver Cyclones on ...
Kane Kucera, a seventh-grader at North Tama, has earned a position on the Iowa National Junior High rodeo team and will be traveling with fellow teammates to Perry, Georgia June 19 through June 25 to compete at the 17th annual National Junior High Finals Rodeo (NJHFR) in the Light Rifle ...
Some of the fastest student-athlete shooters in the state of Iowa belong to the Steel Shooters of Traer, an Iowa Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) started roughly eight years ago by coach Pete Holden, the mayor of Traer. “What we really started [the team] for was to teach gun ...
In the wake of what had been a 48-game losing streak, the Redhawk softball team ended last week on a high note by welcoming back to the mound injured starting pitcher Addison Hochstetler and beating the Baxter Bolts, 11-10, on Friday, June 10, at home — breaking a three year-long losing ...
With a new head coach – North Tama alumna Kodi Hillman – and a team composed entirely of underclassmen including two rising 8th graders, the Redhawks softball team has been working to rebuild their program. On Saturday, June 4, the Redhawks hosted a tournament featuring the Lisbon Lions ...