Rebels fall in state title game

    CEDAR FALLS —  Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s quest for its first-ever state football championship will have to wait for another year.
    Thursday, top-ranked Logan-Magnolia scored with less than one minute remaining to edge the Rebels 28-24 in the Class A championship game at the UNI-Dome’s Stan Sheriff Field in Cedar Falls. The back-and-forth game saw the lead change hands four times and each team battle back from a pair of deficits.
    “We put pressure on them, they put pressure on us and it was kind of a ‘who has the ball last’ type of deal,” G-R coach John Olson said. “It was a heck of a football game.”
    “It’s hard to collect my thoughts after that, we haven’t been in too many that have come down to the end,” Logan-Magnolia coach Matt Straight said.
    The Rebels matched their best finish ever in the state football playoffs. G-R’s 2004 team also reached the state final before dropping a tightly-contested game to Council Bluffs St. Albert.

For more of this story see the Nov. 27 Grundy Register.