Sometimes, I’m just flat out wrong. I’m man enough to admit it. I can whiff with the best of them.
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GLIDDEN: Their slim lead was being threatened; something big needed to happen.
The Carroll wrestling team wrestled in Ames over the weekend. During that tournament they scored 80 points to place ninth overall.
Overall the Kuemper Catholic wrestling team racked up 140 points at a Tri-Center wrestling tournament this past Saturday.
A busy Saturday in Coon Rapids featured three area teams having strong finishes.
While Clemson and LSU held center stage in their College Football Playoff showdown Monday night, just a few weeks earlier Joe Beschorner experienced what it’s like to call the offensive plays in a scoring shootout for a national championship.
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SAC CITY: The script seemingly had played out before. A close game that was within reach, a late deficit.
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SAC CITY: Big plays have a habit of finding big players to attach themselves to.
Let’s take a moment to step back and appreciate what we witnessed a few days ago. We experienced one of the most tremendous Wildcard weekends in recent memory. If this is any indication of what the 2020 NFL playoffs have in store, sign me up a million times over.
A slight injury hasn’t seemed to hold him, nor his team back.
The trip west wasn’t a friendly one for the Kuemper Catholic basketball teams on Tuesday night.
So far the start of a new year has been good for the Carroll Tiger basketball teams.
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Tuesday night for 13 separate matches Carroll waged war in a fierce civil war. The battles created long lasting memories, and more than a few horse voices for the rest of the week.
The DMACC men's and women's basketball teams will host a “Pack the Gym” doubleheader versus North Iowa Community College on Saturday on the DMACC Boone Campus, and free admission will be offered for all K-12 students who attend wearing their school’s gear.
A nearly two-week break from games didn’t slow down the IKM-Manning girls basketball team. If anything the recent holiday break seemed to rejuvenate the Wolves.
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Although the lead was never in doubt, it wasn’t until the third quarter that it felt secure.
E-EH-K girls 47, Ar-We-Va girls 43
Time was running out. The deficit was more than manageable, and one of the best shooters for the Knights was at the free throw line.
Kuemper had one half to build off of, and one half to forget on Friday night.
When Wesley Beschorner, first-year football coach at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, says he’s determined to change the Blugolds’ gridiron fortunes, coaches from his high school days in Lake City attest that he’ll give an all-out effort to achieve that goal.
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On the last day before school let out for the holidays, more than a few creatures were stirring in the high school gyms of Kuemper and Carroll High.
One area team has already put together one 81-point night. Another featured a player that has pulled in 16 rebounds in a single game.
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Last Saturday could be defined by one word for the Carroll and Kuemper wrestlers.
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It was the game that Carroll fans for sure had circled on their early season calendar.
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They’re young, they’ve had more than enough experience, and on the mat they’re downright scary.
A team will no longer have to wait for the second half to speed up a lopsided game.
The days of a limitless time to shoot the ball may be limited in Iowa high school athletics.
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In just under three weeks the Carroll swimmers have displaced enough water to drown an elephant.
Ah, Bowl Season. A colossal waste of our time, but also an outlet to pull us away from the post-present lull.
It’s been a start of the season that hasn’t been repeated by many other teams this year.
Monday night the Carroll swim team swam in their sixth meet in the last 14 days.
Tuesday’s road trip to Atlantic wasn’t one the Knights basketball team will want to repeat.
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There was one area, perhaps more than any other that Scott Frost, the head football coach for Nebraska wanted to find for the 2020 class of athletes.
GLIDDEN: The 2018-19 boys’ basketball season isn’t a popular subject around the Glidden-Ralston team. With last season came more moments that the Wildcats would not talk about rather than positives.
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GLIDDEN: There are times this season when Glidden-Ralston head coach Cole Corson finds himself all alone on the Glidden-Ralston bench.
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Carroll’s wrestling team picked up five wins over the last week.
An early set back did little to slow down the Kuemper Catholic wrestling team on Saturday.
Another night in the Hawkeye 10 conference met the Kuemper Catholic basketball teams on Friday night.
Carroll finished second at the Des Moines Hoover meet on Saturday.
A road challenge and a game against a nearby rival wasn’t enough to slow down Carroll High over the weekend.
Tuesday’s Rolling Valley Conference matchups turned sour for the Coon Rapids-Bayard teams.
For the fifth-straight game, the South Central Calhoun girls have earned a victory.
Ar-We-Va’s girls gained another significant win on Tuesday night.
A hot start by the Wolves was shortly erased on Tuesday night.
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A quirk in the schedule has made home swimming meets for the Carroll High swim team a rarity this season.
Neither of the four teams seemed to have what it took to charge out to a big advantage.
After winning their first three contests of the season, the Wolves had their first setback on Tuesday night.
What started out with celebration quickly turned into dread.
A slow start spelled peril for the Kuemper boys basketball team on Tuesday night.
If my 10-year old son can pen a Christmas letter to Santa, I sure as hell can too, right? Well, here we go, a 30-year old sports fanatic sharing his wish list for the world to see.
South Central Calhoun 50, East Sac County 35 (girls)
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