In part of what is unquestionably the best all-around three-year period ever for North Tama sports, the boys’ basketball team advanced to the state tournament for the first time Saturday. The trip comes a year after the girls did the same thing. The Redhawks beat Iowa Mennonite, which has been to state a dozen times, in their second game in as many days.
North Tama will be the 3 seed in the tournament, according to a tweet from the Marshalltown Times-Republican, and play the last 1A game of the first round March 4.
Besides the aforementioned basketball milestones, the football team won the school’s first boys’ state championship in 2010 and last year the baseball team made the state tournament for the first time since it moved to Des Moines.
Also Saturday, the Iowa State men won by 20, the Iowa State women won by 19, and this happened. Best basketball day ever.