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Redhawk boys compete at Comets’ Early Bird meet

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CONRAD — The BCLUW boys track and field team scored 76 points to finish third as a team at the Comets’ Early Bird meet at BCLUW High School on Thursday, April 3. Jesup won the team title with 124 points, followed by Des Moines North with 94 points. GMG placed eighth with 21 points, North ...

Blake blazing new trail for North Tama by signing with Simpson

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TRAER – Redhawk Briar Blake is headed to Indianola next season to join the Simpson College Storm NCAA Division III women’s wrestling squad. On Friday, March 21, with her family by her side in the North Tama gym commons, Blake signed her letter of intent with Simpson, making history as ...

Knaack commits to wrestle at Wisconsin-La Crosse

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TRAER – Next season, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL) head wrestling coach Dave Malecek, an Iowa native, will add a slightly familiar face to his Division III men’s wrestling roster – North Tama High School senior Kolt Knaack. That is, if Knaack bears any resemblance (spoiler: ...

Knights close chapter on historic season at state tournament

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LA PORTE CITY – A new chapter began for the Union Knights boys basketball program this season under first-year head coach Eric Jesse who coached the junior-heavy team all the way to the state tournament for only the second time in school history. In the lead-up to the postseason, the ...

Knights UPSET Knights

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DES MOINES – Most predicted the Knights would prevail in last Saturday’s Class 2A Substate 6 final played at Drake University’s Knapp Center, they just didn’t think it would be Union’s Knights. “Heading into the game I would say we were extremely confident. We talked in the ...

Thrice squared in honor of Union’s ’12th man’

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DES MOINES – Union wrestling crowned not one but two three-time state champions during last Saturday’s finals of the 100th IHSAA Boys State Wrestling Tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines – a first for the school which now boasts a whopping 24 Class 2A boys state wrestling ...

Knaack climbs to fourth

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DES MOINES — While not the finish he wanted, North Tama’s Kolt Knaack ended his high school wrestling career last Saturday night on the state podium for the third time by securing his best finish yet at fourth place in Class 1A at 150 pounds during the 100th IHSAA Boys State Wrestling ...

Knaack knocked off target as Redhawks upended on Day 3

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DES MOINES — Two top-seeded wrestlers derailed North Tama’s wrestlers during Friday’s Class 1A session of the boys state wrestling tournament at Wells Fargo Arena. Kolt Knaack took his first loss of the season against defending state champion Corbin Reisz of Logan-Magnolia in the ...

Trojans punish Knights with pace and pressure in postseason play

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STATE CENTER — Lily Zahnd was, as the kids say, “cookin’.” When a young West Marshall girls’ basketball fan yelled out to her during last Saturday’s Class 3A Region 3 quarterfinal game against Union Community, Zahnd most certainly was. The Trojan senior scored her team’s first ...