{"id":7023,"date":"2016-01-26T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T16:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2016-01-26T00:39:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T06:39:20","slug":"north-tama-to-play-football-in-des-moines-metro-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/north-tama-to-play-football-in-des-moines-metro-area\/","title":{"rendered":"North Tama to play football in Des Moines metro area"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Tama’s new football district<\/a> includes its southwesternmost opponents ever, extending down to a school in the village of Norwoodville.<\/p>\n

Where is Norwoodville, you ask? Well, it certainly was not a place I have mapped out in the recently updated school directions booklet (available download on demand, just click!)<\/a>. It’s the technically unincorporated part of Polk County southeast of the northeast mixmaster centered at the intersection of Northeast 29th Street and Broadway\/Northeast 46th Avenue.<\/p>\n

But for purposes of this blog post, it is the home of Grand View Christian School, a private school that opened in 2014<\/a> after Grandview Park Baptist Church stopped running a school and Saydel closed Norwoodville Elementary. However,<\/strong> <\/em>that is not where the football field is. The North-Tama-at-Grand-View game, whenever it takes place, will be at Saydel High School, on Northeast 54th Avenue between US 69 and IA 415 half a mile north of the interstate.<\/p>\n

Colfax-Mingo is another total newcomer a good hour and a half from Traer. GVC and C-M are super-outliers in the new Class A District 5, which otherwise is reasonably compact and has familiar names.<\/p>\n

There are only seven districts per class in the upcoming two-year set, opening up two of 16 playoff spaces to at-large teams caught in a three-way 6-1 logjam that’s bound to occur somewhere.\u00a0The playoffs are getting their brackets back<\/a>, which completely negates my need to reverse-engineer them.<\/p>\n

(Also, congratulations to West Des Moines Valley on its 2016 and 2017 district championships, because that opponent list is unfair, especially with Newton, the smallest enrollment in 4A.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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