The Union girls basketball team made it to round two of the Class 3A postseason this year before losing 65-38 to the fourth-ranked Benton Community last Wednesday night in the Class 3A regional semifinal. “We knew going into the Benton game it would be a challenge as they've had a good ...
The pride on Andrew Knaack’s face was evident as the North Tama boys’ wrestling coach jumped for joy once the final whistle blew Friday morning at boys’ state wrestling. His son, Redhawks sophomore Kolt Knaack (No. 8 seed at 138 pounds), had just completed a 2 minute, 43-second pin of ...
Telegraph note: This story is republished with permission from National High School Rodeo Association Times Magazine. The original story was published in the NHSRA Times Feb. 2023 issue. One day, the switch flipped, and Kane Kucera of Traer, Iowa, decided he wanted to try his hand at ...
Three seems to be the magic number for Redhawk wrestling. In the wake of a two decade drought, the North Tama wrestling program sent three wrestlers to the state tournament last season and following Saturday’s district tournament in Ogden, the team will be doing the same this year with ...
The Union Knights girls basketball team notched an impressive win over Oelwein last Saturday evening in the opening round of regional play, taking down the Huskies 51-39. The Class 3A Region 3 quarterfinal was absolutely the host Huskies’ to lose and lose they did following a first quarter ...
The Union Knights boys wrestling team will be sending three to the state tournament this week including Brayden Bohnsack at 106 pounds, undefeated Jace Hedeman at 113 pounds, and Caleb Olson at 145 pounds — all three are repeat state qualifiers with Hedeman last year’s 106 pound state ...
Redhawk girls handcuffed by Baxter The North Tama girls’ basketball team was limited to a season-low scoring night in a 61-7 Iowa Star Conference South Division loss to Baxter on Friday, Jan. 27. The host Bolts (13-3, 10-1) jumped out to a 14-0 lead after the opening quarter and cruised to ...
At the inaugural Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union state wrestling tournament in Coralville last Friday, Union sophomore Jillian ‘Monster’ Worthen proved beyond any reasonable doubt that she is one of the best female wrestlers in Iowa right now – taking the state championship at ...
The inaugural IGHSAU girls’ wrestling super-regionals held last Friday, Jan. 27 produced high drama, injuries, positive results for several area schools, and made history in the process. Regions 3 and 4 gathered in HyVee Hall at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines and, over eight hours of ...
What tends to be a fairly routine motion at most school board meetings – approval of the consent agenda – was anything but at the Monday, Jan. 16 meeting of the North Tama Board of Education due to a petition submitted against the hiring of the district’s new head softball coach. The ...