TAMA — From a production standpoint, the South Tama Trojans are looking at a lot of replacements for the 2022 football season. Losing all three quarterbacks, four of the team’s top six rushers and three of its top five tacklers on defense, the Trojans are going to rely on underclassmen and ...
TRAER — There’s a lot of new faces taking up important roles for North Tama this season. Gone is the senior core that propelled the Redhawks to a third-place finish in their Class A district in 2021 with a 6-2 record and made a run to the quarterfinals of the playoffs, falling short 28-7 to ...
North Tama was discounted early and often ahead of the 2021 football season. After going 2-6 in the first season of head coach Taylor Wurth’s tenure, the Redhawks were picked to finish fifth in Class A District 3 and not be much of a factor come playoff time. Indeed, a turnaround of the ...
Preston Pope has no illusions. He isn’t very tall, nor is he the fastest guy on the field. Since his youth playing days in the Marshalltown Football League, Pope knew how he fit in with his peers. “I’ve always been a little bit thicker than everybody else,” he said. Stocky or ...
One of the most prolific dual-threat quarterbacks in Class A football for the last two seasons was honored as the District 5 Offensive Player of the Year, as Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior Hunter Lott collected his league’s top postseason award. Lott was a two-time, first-team all-district ...
DES MOINES — The Marshalltown area football teams were unable to advance to the UNI-Dome this fall, but a number of local preps were honored with selection to the Iowa Newspaper Association’s annual all-state football teams. Gladbrook-Reinbeck, which qualified for its eighth-straight ...