It’s been 80 years since Clutier High School’s ‘Orange & Black’ girls basketball team – better known as the Charging Czechs – was crowned the 1942 state basketball champions but it certainly seemed like only yesterday on Sept. 18 as members of the tightknit Czech community ...
The Union Knight’s annual Homecoming run is taking on new poignancy this year. Next Friday, Sept. 30 while Union’s football team is busy readying for their Homecoming match-up with the Oelwein Huskies, members of the school’s cross country team will be lacing up to run the game ball ...
Following a stunning loss, 2-1, to unranked North Cedar last Saturday, Sept. 18 in their opening match at the Springville Volleyball Invitational, the No. 1 Redhawks regrouped and refocused enough to take down the reigning 2021 state champions Burlington Notre Dame, 2-0, before later succumbing ...
‘Respect the name.’ That’s the 2022-2023 motto for the Redhawks girls volleyball team. But which name deserves the ultimate respect when it comes to North Tama volleyball these days? Is it the Redhawks themselves or is it head coach Channing Halstead? This reporter would like to argue ...
The Union Knights cross country team played host to seven different teams including North Tama this past Thursday, Sept. 8 at La Porte City Golf Club – sweeping several of the top spots in the Girls 5K and taking first place overall. Union runners Amilia Condon, Lauren Youngblut, Lily ...
Home turf may come with its advantages - especially on a cross country course as unique and difficult as South Tama’s - but North Tama runner Grace Lidgett knew the course well and used that to her advantage this past Monday evening. Grace Lidgett’s comfortable win in the girls’ race was ...
The Battle of Highway 63 certainly lived up to its name last Friday night in Traer in that North Tama battled a tough Hudson defense, making it a skirmish just to get the ball past the 50 yard line – something the Redhawks did not accomplish until the final seconds of the first quarter. ...
A nailbiter of a debut as the top-ranked volleyball team in Class 1A didn’t carry for North Tama. Instead the Redhawks played their best yet, even though they had to settle for second place. North Tama knocked off HLV, Independence and 2A No. 12 Grundy Center in pool play before fighting ...
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 ...
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 ...