LA PORTE CITY – A new chapter began for the Union Knights boys basketball program this season under first-year head coach Eric Jesse who coached the junior-heavy team all the way to the state tournament for only the second time in school history. In the lead-up to the postseason, the ...
DES MOINES – Most predicted the Knights would prevail in last Saturday’s Class 2A Substate 6 final played at Drake University’s Knapp Center, they just didn’t think it would be Union’s Knights. “Heading into the game I would say we were extremely confident. We talked in the ...
TRAER – Anthony Dudys, a sophomore at North Tama High School, has demonstrated incredible talent and dedication to the sport of shooting. From starting in fourth grade to qualifying this season for the 2025 Rifle and Pistol National Junior Olympics in April, Dudys’ achievements are ...
DES MOINES – Union wrestling crowned not one but two three-time state champions during last Saturday’s finals of the 100th IHSAA Boys State Wrestling Tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines – a first for the school which now boasts a whopping 24 Class 2A boys state wrestling ...
DES MOINES — While not the finish he wanted, North Tama’s Kolt Knaack ended his high school wrestling career last Saturday night on the state podium for the third time by securing his best finish yet at fourth place in Class 1A at 150 pounds during the 100th IHSAA Boys State Wrestling ...
DES MOINES — Two top-seeded wrestlers derailed North Tama’s wrestlers during Friday’s Class 1A session of the boys state wrestling tournament at Wells Fargo Arena. Kolt Knaack took his first loss of the season against defending state champion Corbin Reisz of Logan-Magnolia in the ...
DES MOINES — No matter what position Kolt Knaack was in on Thursday, the North Tama senior was determined to keep his championship dreams alive. Alburnett’s Reece Klostermann landed a rare takedown on Knaack, but it was a footnote in Knaack’s 11-7 decision to reach the semifinals for ...
STATE CENTER — Lily Zahnd was, as the kids say, “cookin’.” When a young West Marshall girls’ basketball fan yelled out to her during last Saturday’s Class 3A Region 3 quarterfinal game against Union Community, Zahnd most certainly was. The Trojan senior scored her team’s first ...
DES MOINES — Kolt Knaack isn’t leaving anything behind when he’s on the mat this week. The North Tama senior is determined to make his final state tournament his most lucrative, and claimed victory in a 150-pound second-round match to start down the path at the Class 1A session of the ...
WEBSTER CITY – The No. 7 Union boys wrestling team crowned four district champions and two runners-up on its way to second place at the Class 2A District 11 tournament hosted by Webster City last Saturday, thereby qualifying six for the 2025 state boys wrestling tournament set for Feb. 19-22 ...