It’s less than a week before Halloween and both the North Tama volleyball and football teams are still playing.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>, is the only one in 319, as the 319\/641 boundary cuts right through Tama County.)<\/p>\n Tomorrow night, the football team, although #6 in RPI<\/a>, 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…<\/p>\n …Mason City Newman. Again. For the fourth time in a decade, but the first since 2011<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n