Wolverines bounce back from district loss to rival to cusp of playoffs

DIKE – The Dike-New Hartford football team thinks it was overlooked based on the amount of talent that graduated after its trip to the state semifinals last season.
 
While the Wolverines would be the first to admit they weren't perfect from the first snap earlier this summer, D-NH has been on a winning stretch that can't be ignored.
 
The young D-NH athletes have thrived, and kept postseason hopes alive heading into the final week of the regular season, where a win at East Marshall would lock the Wolverines in as the district runner-up behind Aplington-Parkersburg.
 
"We had a lot of doubters when we lost Trent Johnson," Dike-New Hartford junior Cade Fuller said of the state's all-time leading rusher who graduated after last season. "He's a great player, but he's not on our team anymore. We've been playing with a chip on our shoulder from the first loss, and we tell people not to sleep on us because we know what we're capable of."
 
Read more in the Oct. 19 Grundy Register.