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Tenacious Knights take down No. 3 Rebels, No. 4 Raiders in weekend tourney

The 3A No. 9 Union Knights girls volleyball team played with fierce tenacity during last Saturday’s tournament at North Tama by taking down the 1A No. 3 Gladbrook-Reinbeck Rebels, 2-0, in their opening match-up. The Knights rode that high all the way to the Championship bracket – placing ...

No. 6 North Tama falls to AGWSR in first road game of season

After resoundingly beating the Plainsmen in their season opener at home Aug. 26, the sixth-ranked North Tama Redhawks were shut out by non-conference AGWSR, 28-0, on the road this past Friday. The Cougar defense ultimately proved too much for North Tama, keeping the Redhawks offense to 133 ...

Knights blown away by Cyclones, 42-7

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 ...

Redhawks strike down Plainsmen, 34-6, in season opener at Dennis Field

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 ...

New crop of Redhawks ready to lead

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 ...

North Tama girls wrestling enters the mat

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 ...

Worthen achieves All-American, continues to trailblaze

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 ...

Kopriva repeats as league MVP

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 ...

Redhawks suffer tough loss to Dons in district final at home

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 ...

Knights fall to sixth-ranked Trojans in round two of playoffs

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 ...