Today's Sports

    The Glenwood boys soccer team got a pair of goals from Trenton McNeel and one each from Riley Townsend, Blake Beier and Payton Kalambokidis in a 5-0 season-opening victory over Tri-Center on Thursday.

    East Mills football coach Kevin Schafer will have to dust off some 11-man playbooks.
    After five years of eight man football, East Mills is moving up to 11-man football and Class A for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
    “I bet you I threw all those (playbooks) away,” Schafer said. “I assumed we would probably always be eight man. But when we first switched over, I converted some of our 11-man stuff to 8-man, so some of it can be converted back.”

    The East Mills boys basketball ralled from 16 points down but came up just a little short in a 59-49 Class 1A, District 1 semifinals loss last Tuesday to Council Bluffs St. Albert.
    The Falcons, winners of three in a row, came out on fire, jumped on the Wolverines early, and lead 19-3 after a dizzying, fast-paced first quarter.

    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.