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Dowling downs MHS in football finale

The Marshalltown football team was mere inches away from finishing its opening drive with a touchdown, but top-ranked Dowling Catholic denied it. That was where it started and ended for the Bobcats. Jordan Watson stripped Marshalltown quarterback Jamison Niehouse of the football inside the 1-yard-line 87 seconds into Friday’s Week 9 finale, and the top-ranked Maroons marched from there to a 42-0 victory over the host Bobcats. Dowling (8-1) went 99 yards on the ensuing drive, capping it with a 3-yard touchdown run by Ian Middleton, and it was all Maroons from ...

WEEK 8: West Marshall secures district title at West Central Valley

STUART — The ninth-ranked West Marshall football team closed out Class 1A District 7 play with a 44-7 win over West Central Valley on Friday night, sealing the district title and an eighth-straight trip to the playoffs. The Trojans (6-2, 4-1) will host Shenandoah (3-5) after winning a three-way tie atop the district over Pleasantville (7-1, 4-1) and Interstate 35 (5-3, 4-1) based on scoring differential. West Marshall finished off West Central Valley (2-6, 1-4) to assure itself of the district title, piling up 506 yards yards of total offense. Trojan quarterback Blayk Hart was ...

Comets pop Pirates 48-0

CONRAD — A Week 9 game isn’t promised, so if the BCLUW football team played its final game on Friday night, the Comets would be more than content with the way the season ended. BCLUW put a beatdown on Postville to potentially close out the regular season with a Senior Night stomping, ...

Bobcats bow to Waterloo West for fourth-straight loss

WATERLOO — A pair of early turnovers paved the way for Waterloo West to get a headstart on a 45-13 victory over the Marshalltown football team on Friday night at Memorial Stadium. The host Wahawks (5-3) got on the scoreboard first with a scoop-and-score, turning a Bobcat fumble into six ...

MHS mishandles chance at DCG

The script was simple. Executing it was the excruciating part. The Marshalltown football team put itself in position to pull off an upset win over Dallas Center-Grimes, but the Bobcats couldn’t make the plays they needed in a 31-10 loss to the Mustangs on Friday night at Leonard Cole ...

WEEK 6: Redhawks rumble past GMG for Homecoming win

TRAER — The North Tama football team took command of its Homecoming game against GMG with a 30-point second quarter on its way to a 74-22 triumph over the Wolverines on Friday night. The Redhawks (4-2, 3-1) picked up their third-straight win by pulling away from a 16-8 first-quarter lead ...