Tonight, the No. 12 North Tama volleyball team faces No. 4 Lisbon in Van Horne. At stake is either North Tama’s third state volleyball appearance in six years, or Lisbon’s first ever. Stories: North Tama Telegraph (covering the regional semifinal win over Montezuma), Cedar Rapids Gazette (with focus on Lisbon).
Friday in state football, North Tama (7-2) plays at Lynnville-Sully (8-1). The winner of that game will play the winner of Earlham at Grundy Center. (Notable in 8-Man: Remsen St. Mary’s and Don Bosco would play each other in the next round if each win Friday.)
In a very important “you know you live in a small town when” item, trick-or-treating in Traer has been moved to Saturday night to accommodate the football game. It’s also an hour later (6:30-8:30 instead of 5:30-7:30), which means it will start after sunset like things used to be before the extension of DST in 2007.
Also Saturday, the girls’ cross country team will participate in the state meet at Fort Dodge as a team for the first time since 2007.