DES MOINES — Marshalltown Community College volleyball improved to 6-0 on Monday night with a road win against the Grand View University junior varsity squad, winning in five sets 21-25, 20-25, 25-21, 25-19, 15-13. After falling behind 0-2, the Tigers roared back to close out with three ...
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — North Tama volleyball started off its season at the Meskwaki Tournament on Saturday and walked away with five victories. The Redhawks swept Colo-NESCO (21-8, 21-14), Vinton-Shellsburg (24-22, 21,19), Class 2A No. 15 Belle Plaine (21-12, 21-9), while they beat Denver ...
STATE CENTER — Saturday saw the first tournament action of the season for many of the area high school volleyball teams, as West Marshall welcomed in BCLUW and Grundy Center along with five other teams from around the state for their home tournament. While the Trojans made it through pool ...
GRINNELL — The East Marshall volleyball team faced off with two ranked teams and finished 0-4 at the Grinnell Tournament on Saturday. The Mustangs (0-5) opened the day with a loss to Class 3A No. 15 West Liberty, 21-11, 21-15, before fighting to a 21-12, 21-18 loss to Dallas Center-Grimes. ...
In the 103 times Marshalltown and Ames had faced each other before Friday night, the Little Cyclones boasted a 65-32-5 record against the Bobcats, and unfortunately for the MHS faithful that gap didn’t shrink at all in the first game of the 2017 season. It was all Ames from the start on ...
GRUNDY CENTER — The last chapter in a century-long series between neighbors and rivals tilted toward Gladbrook-Reinbeck one last time, as the Rebels ran past Grundy Center 28-7 in Friday’s season-opening high school football game. With the Rebels destined for 8-Man football next fall and ...
After a lengthy break due to a cancellation of a tournament in Mason City on Monday, the Marshalltown boys golf team was back on the course on Thursday and the Bobcats continued their impressive start to the season with a 41-stroke win over Fort Dodge 140-181 at the American Legion ...
GRUNDY CENTER — The Victory Bell will ring once more. Beyond tonight’s 98th consecutive meeting between the high school football teams of Grundy Center and Gladbrook-Reinbeck, nothing is guaranteed. The short drive down Highway 175 will witness the end of the longest annual rivalry game in ...
Area harriers kicked off their season on Thursday when Marshalltown hosted its annual Early Bird Cross Country meet, and lone Bobcats boys senior Luke Pedersen took the honors as the top finisher for the area schools in attendance. Pedersen finished in 13th place with a time of 18 minutes, 23 ...
On an August afternoon that felt more like late September, the Marshalltown cross country team hosted nine other harrier squads from around the state for its annual Early Bird Cross Country Meet Thursday. Though the Bobcats hosted, it was sophomore Callie Frakes from South Tama County who ...
AMES — Iowa State says junior college transfer Kamilo Tongamoa has been cleared to play this season. The junior defensive lineman chose the Cyclones over Oklahoma State, Arizona State, Colorado, Oregon and Texas. But Tongamoa had class work to finish up at Merced Community College in ...
Entering his first year as the head coach of Marshalltown football, Adam Goodvin is more equipped to take over the reins than someone from outside the program considering he has been on the staff the last two years as quarterbacks coach. Because of that familiarity with the program, Goodvin ...
CONRAD — While the BCLUW football program only won one game last year, that game was on the final moment of its season when the Comets prevailed over MFL MarMac in a 33-22 win at home. BCLUW head coach Anthony Jahr said he wants to build off that season-closing victory from last year as his ...
REINBECK — It’s well known that one of the most successful programs in the state at any level of play over the last few years has been the Gladbrook-Reinbeck football team. Each of the last three years, the Rebels have ended their season in the UNI-Dome with a chance to win a state title, ...
ACKLEY — Last year the AGWSR football team experienced a lot of success in their first year at the 8-man level, going 7-2 in the regular season and reaching the playoffs. However, after a first-round postseason exit, Cougars head coach James Koop said the team isn’t satisfied with how its ...
GARWIN — One thing that plagues every high school football team is loss of former players, with some dealing with the problem more than others in a given year. For Green Mountain-Garwin football, that pain of graduation hits rather hard in 2017, as they lose players like Class A District 5 ...
GRUNDY CENTER — The statistics showed what everybody knew: Bryce Flater was one of the top running backs in the state the last two years. What Grundy Center head football coach Brent Thoren sees is the return of an offensive line that cleared the way for that tailback to the tune of more ...
STATE CENTER — Nothing exemplified West Marshall head football coach Cody Hackett’s analysis of last fall like the Trojans’ season-opening defeat. The 2016 campaign, which ended with a 5-4 overall record and 3-4 mark in Class 2A’s District 3, “felt close.” The Trojans couldn’t ...
LE GRAND — Heading into any season, it is always a benefit to return as many starters from the previous year as possible, and luckily for the East Marshall football team, it returns quite a few of its top players from last season. Back are Class 2A District 3 all-district selections Noah ...
COLO — The Colo-NESCO football team’s bid for a fourth state playoff appearance since becoming an 8-man program in 2012 will hinge on how well the Royals respond to the challenge of filling some sizable shoes on both sides of the ball. Iowa Newspaper Association third-team all-state ...