The vagaries of the calendar this year, plus the continuation of an extra round of the playoffs, mean that high school football in Iowa starts way, way early this year.
That’s right: There are kids in school and football games going on during the State Fair. This is so, so wrong. The fair was moved up a week a while ago so this didn’t happen, yet here we are.
The announced closure of Malcolm Price Lab School (NU High) so late in the school year sent some teams scrambling, too. Central City and Dunkerton will play an 8-man game in the UNI-Dome tonight — the second half of a doubleheader.
North Tama, meanwhile, is reunited with former (and much much closer) North Iowa Cedar League teams in Class A District 4. The Redhawks play Nashua-Plainfield at Wartburg College in Waverly tomorrow night. The Cedar Rapids Gazette’s Jeff Linder has high expectations for NT.