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Today's Sports

  • Girls State Basketball Capsule

    Tale of the Tape
    Who: No. 5 Glenwood Rams (22-1) vs No. 4 Davenport Assumption Knight (22-2)
    When: 6:45 p.m. tonight
    Where: Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines

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  • History in their Hands

        Seeing his team was swatting some butterflies and dealing with the nerves just prior to perhaps the biggest game of their young basketball careers, Glenwood girls basketball coach Barry Loeffelbein lofted a joke at his team.
        “What's blue and smells like red paint?”
        After a few dull stares, the coach replied, “Blue paint.”
         The team burst into laughter. Butterflies gone. Nerves restored.

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  • Rams Punch Ticket To State!

    ATLANTIC - It had been 33 years since the Glenwood girls basketball had qualified for the state tournament. Not anymore.

    The Rams hit a season-high 12 three-pointers and had four girls score in double figures to outrun and outplay an upstart Winterset team, 71-46, in the class 3A, Region 8 championship to punch the school's first ticket to state since 1979.

    Glenwood coach Barry Loffelbein was at a loss for words after his
    team's 22nd win in 23 games this season.

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  • Wolverines stop Walnut, 66-45

        Luke Schafer scored a game-high 31 points to lead East Mills to a 65-45 victory over Walnut in the Class 1A, District 1 quarterfinals on Thursday.
        The Wolverines (18-4) blew open the game with a 17-7 second-quarter run and put the Warriors away on a 21-10 third-quarter run.
        East Mills limited Walnut to 31.5 percent (17-of-54) shooting and held a 37 to 22 rebounding edge.

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  • Corning ends Knights’ run

        Fremont-Mills’ Cinderella run through the Class 1A, Region 1 bracket has come to an end.

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  • Rams gain ‘experience’ at state

        DES MOINES - The Glenwood wrestling team may not have won a match at the Iowa State Wrestling Tournament with its four first-time state qualifiers, but coach Brad Asche is far from disappointed with how his team performed.

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  • Cold fourth quarter dooms Rams...

        “They heated up and we went ice cold,” is how Glenwood boys basketball coach Curt Schulte summed it up.

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  • Rams advance with win over...

        The Glenwood girls basketball team has moved within a win of its first state tournament appearance in over three decades.

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  • Knight girls down Sidney in...

        TABOR - Fremont-Mills kept pulling away and Sydney kept coming back.
        The Knights hit four free throws in the final 1:21 and held Sydney to just two points over the final four minutes to pull away for good in a 36-31 Class 1A, Region 8 basketball victory on Thursday.
        The Knights trailed 12-9 after a quarter but opened the second-quarter on a 9-0 run to get ahead 18-12. The lead was trimmed to 18-17 at the half in a process that would repeat itself throughout the second half.

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  • Glenwood sends four to state...

        The Glenwood wrestling team will send four wrestlers to this week’s Iowa State Wrestling Tournament and all four are unranked.
        And that’s just the way Ram head coach Brad Asche likes it.
        “We like being the underdog. The surprise,” the coach said. “We’re the underdog right away because all four of our kids didn’t place first in the district and playing kids who won their districts. So we look to surprise some people.”

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