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Everything coming back from Tucson seemed normal. As it turns out the seven games played in Arizona would be the last bit of normalcy the team would experience this season.
STORM LAKE: Buena Vista University senior Clayton Christian put his mother on a plane in Tucson, Arizona, this month, and watched her take off on a flight back home, to Glidden.
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For weeks, everyone could see the disease spreading from the east westward. This time, they didn’t close the schools, and sports continued as scheduled. Then, it got worse, and schools were closed out of necessity. St. Anthony stopped allowing visitors. Eventually, there was no choice — game…
BRYANT, ARKANSAS: By early last week, I had stopped looking for televised sports. When I have downtime (usually that’s rare), I settle in and find a game, often accompanied on the couch by my sons J.D. (11) and Luke (8). A few days earlier, I had flipped to our CBS affiliate during what was …
Drake University has postponed the 2020 Drake Relays presented by Xtream powered by Mediacom along with related special events and programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 111th edition of the event was scheduled for April 22–25 at Drake Stadium.
Tuesday, March 10 might be remembered as the last normal day that Chris Cuellar had at his office.
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Seemingly overnight, the whole situation for the spring sports season in Iowa went up in the air.
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Two area athletes were honored with the highest honor given out in basketball competition.
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Of Carroll’s four losses this season, 75 percent of them came to teams that finished either second or fourth in the class 3A State tournament.
Teams responsible for 75 percent of the Carroll boys basketball losses this season have made the most out of their State tournament runs.
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For two Kuemper seniors, their winter work did not go unnoticed.
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A trio of Carroll juniors highlighted the All-Raccoon River Conference girls basketball lists this winter.
The IKM-Manning girls basketball team came within one game of another berth in the Iowa Girls Athletic Union State basketball tournament.
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Throughout the winter there was no question who the leader of the Knights girls basketball team was.
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Jeff Puffett of Carroll has rolled plenty of perfect, 300 games in his bowling career. But Nos. 27 and 28 stand out from all the others.
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The Carroll Chamber of Commerce’s 14th annual Hoop It Up youth basketball tournament rebounded well with 70 teams competing in boys third-through-ninth-grade and girls sixth- and eighth-grade divisions Feb. 22 and 23 in Carroll.
North Scott started out the 4A tournament with a 20-point win over Clear Creek Amana on Tuesday morning.
Iowa City High 59, Prairie, Cedar Rapids 40
So far 16 teams have qualified to the State tournament with eight in both class 1A and 2A earning their place on Saturday night.
Throughout the first half of the game, there was no question: West Sioux was the stronger team.
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With just a few minutes left in the third quarter, sophomore sharpshooter Kaleb Booth held up his hands, begging for the open pass. He knew he could change the game.
Once January came around the new year seemed to bring a new focus for the Coon Rapids-Bayard basketball team.
Early in the second quarter of Tuesday’s class 1A district semi-final game IKM-Manning had climbed the mountain an taken the lead from St. Albert.
A fight for their lives was nearing its second week, and so far the Kuemper Catholic boys’ basketball team had downed all of their challengers.
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For the second time this season they can call themselves champions of the Twin Lakes Conference.
While the offense was taking care of business on their end of the floor, the defense wasn’t letting up either.
Kuemper Catholic continues its march through the tournament trail.
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DES MOINES: There was only one thing that first-year head Kuemper Catholic wrestling coach, Shane Vaughan could think of when he was asked about Ben Schmitz at the State tournament.
An eight game skid came to an end for the Ar-We-Va boys basketball team on Monday night.
Clarion-Goldfield-Dows 53, South Central Calhoun 43
Carroll’s boys basketball team stopped a recent two-game skid on Tuesday night.
Midway through the game the scoring opportunities opened up.
The most underrated aspect of NBA All-Star weekend is the insane amount of celebrities that dot the landscape. And for a first time attendee like myself, it was a tad overwhelming.
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CHICAGO: NBA All Star Weekend is more a spectacle than an actual competition.
Four Kuemper players scored double digits as the Knights advanced to the district semifinals on Monday night.
The last two times the Wildcats and Paton-Churdan met, Glidden-Ralston came up short, and they weren’t able to score more than 35 points.
Ar-We-Va’s basketball season started with the Rockets appearing to be on their way to a .500 record. Through the first eight contests the Rockets were 4-4 with notable wins over Paton-Churdan, Coon Rapids-Bayard and Glidden-Ralston. They also had a narrow five-point defeat against Exira-Elk …
Travel won’t be a factor for the Carroll girls basketball team in the postseason.
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GLIDDEN: Going into Thursday’s game, the gameplan for the Wildcats was clear. Get the ball to Gretchen Wallace and Hannah Whitver.
In the final wrestling rankings released by The Predicament there were only four weight classes in Carroll’s district that did not feature at least one wrestler.
It seems more like a curse than something they’ve earned.
During a Feb. 7 game, Glidden-Ralston honored long-time head football coach and superintendent Kreg Lensch (pictured at left) for his service to his school district.
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The hits keep on coming for Carroll’s most famous sports figure.
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Saturday’s meet in Atlantic might as well be another Hawkeye 10 conference meet for Kuemper.
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A local entity is close to giving XFL die-hards another reason to keep a close eye on the competition.
One swimmer wanted to break his own school record. Another swimmer wanted to make the most out of his only year swimming on the team. Another wanted to one-up his brother. And one just wanted to continue to add to the legacy they had started the previous season.
Kuemper’s girls broke a four-game skid on Friday night.
It was a kind weekend for the Carroll basketball teams.
A total of 12 area wrestlers were able to keep their seasons alive following the sectional wrestling tournaments this past Saturday.
GLIDDEN: It’s not often that a team can go an entire quarter without scoring and still win a game.
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