DIKE – It was a very, very good night to be a Knight last week Thursday in Dike. Despite several heavy, cold downpours, Union’s girls track and field team mopped up the competition to take the district crown at a Class 2A state qualifying meet by a margin of more than 40 points over ...
MARENGO – The North Tama girls golf team took the team title last week Friday during the first round of the Class 1A Regional 4B meet at the Marengo Golf Course. The Redhawks advanced as a team with their winning 402 total, finishing two strokes ahead of the runner-up West Branch Bears ...
It was a busy week for us last week with 18-hole events at the Comet Invite on Monday, April 29, for both the boys and girls. Both teams finished toward the middle of the pack with sophomore Brock Bergmeier and senior Clara Carlson winning All-Tournament Honors. Both teams were back again in ...
LA PORTE CITY – He is home. Union Knight standout basketball alum Eric Jesse is back in La Porte City, this time as the head boys basketball coach. Jesse's hire was officially approved by the Union Board of Education as part of the consent agenda during the Monday, April 15 meeting. Jesse ...
Union-North Tama girls soccer entered their final week of regular season play this past Monday after logging a string of matches last week that included falling to 1A No. 8 Hudson on Monday in their final game at home and shutting out Decorah 3-0 on the road Tuesday, before dropping a road ...
DES MOINES – Knights hurdler Jailyn Petersen (center) competed in the fastest Drake Relays girls 100-meter hurdles heat last Friday morning in Des Moines amid some fairly less than ideal weather conditions and held her own. The Union junior placed 18th overall out of 32 hurdlers and sixth ...
As the high school track and field season races toward the finale over the next two weeks, athletes from both Union and North Tama are busy preparing for the Thursday, May 9 state qualifying district meets. Assignments for the penultimate meet were released last week and for the second year ...
TRAER – After narrowly missing the cut at Districts for the 2023-24 state tournament this past February, Redhawk senior wrestler Case Monat thought his grappling days were over for good. But last Wednesday, with his family by his side, the two-time state qualifier put himself back on the ...
TRAER – Last Wednesday with his mom and dad by his side, North Tama senior Ryan Hosek signed his letter of intent to continue his academic and football careers next year at Buena Vista University (BVU) in Storm Lake, Iowa. The six-foot-one, 200-pound Redhawk football captain played both ...
TRAER – Last Friday, North Tama basketball senior standout Jared Dvorak signed his letter of intent to continue both his academic and basketball careers next year with the Buena Vista University Beavers in Storm Lake, Iowa. With most of his family by his side including his parents Jay and ...