It’s less than a week before Halloween and both the North Tama volleyball and football teams are still playing.
Tonight, the volleyball team, #5 in the state, plays at home against next-door neighbor #11 Gladbrook-Reinbeck. The winner plays Tuesday in Boone against either Ar-We-Va or CAM. Geographically, this is a HUGE regional, a Class 1A box centered around Des Moines spanning four of the state’s five area codes. (NT, the easternmost school in the bracket, is the only one in 319, as the 319/641 boundary cuts right through Tama County.)
Tomorrow night, the football team, although #6 in RPI, has to go on the road. North Tama is the highest at-large team, because of the loss to Hudson, and so must play at a district champion. Although Lynnville-Sully and Edgewood-Colesburg were possibilities, we got paired with…
…Mason City Newman. Again. For the fourth time in a decade, but the first since 2011, the Redhawks’ path to a state title goes through the Knights. The only time NT has come out on top is the 2010 state championship season.
GO REDHAWKS!