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DCG’s Rankin coaches 500th game, girls wrestlers hit milestone
This week for Dallas Center-Grimes saw one major career milestone and a couple of important individual marks. (Note: Events covered Jan. 17-22)
Boys Basketball (9-2)
While it should have come a couple of weeks earlier due to a series of postponements, Dallas Center-Grimes head coach Joel Rankin coached his 500th career game on Saturday. And it turned into one of the highlights of the season.
DCG traveled to Gilbert’s annual showcase and took on Carroll (8-3), a team vying for a conference title of its own. The Tigers proved to be little issue for the Mustangs, though, as DCG walked through for a 73-43 win. Only the season-opening 31-point win is a larger margin this season.
Calix Cahill was a walking bucket, putting up 23 points while making 10-of-12 shots and all three shots from the penalty stripe. With nine rebounds and five assists (tied with Brogan Fuller), this marks the first time that Cahill led the team in all three major categories.
Dallas Center’s success carried into Monday night playing a ranked Pella Christian (2A, 9-4). Right from the jump, it was DCG’s game and ended in a 64-56 win. After stumbling into the winter break with two straight losses, the Mustangs have won four games in a row by at least eight points.
Girls Basketball (12-3)
For the second time, the Mustangs’ game against Pella Christian (5-10) was postponed. All that wait amounted to a 66-35 win, a fiery comeback after losing 60-29 to Bishop Heelan (12-0) on Saturday in Dallas Center.
Against Pella, however, the Mustangs logged their 20th win in a row over the Eagles, as Kayla Reis scored 19 points to increase her lead as the team’s top scorer. She has now scored 12.2 points per game, ahead of Vanessa Bickford’s average of 8.6 points. And while Bickford is typically the team’s top facilitator (ranked 12th in the class in assists per game), it was freshman Macy Meyer that opened up the most doors on Monday.
Meyer logged six assists against the Eagles, the fourth most by a 4A freshman in a single game this season.
Boys Wrestling
The Mustangs made a quick trip to Urbandale on Saturday where the team scored 58.5 points for 14th place among the 21 teams invited including the likes of Waukee (20th), Ames (16th) and Dowling Catholic (10th). Bettendorf won with 199.5 points.
Cole Hemmingsen (150 pounds) was the team’s biggest point contributor with a third place mark. His ran through his first two draws before falling to Waverly-Shell Rock but managed to battle back in the consolation bracket to cap a 4-1 day overall, beating three 30-win opponents in the process (he faced the same PCM opponent twice).
Girls Wrestling
DCG spent its Saturday in Mason City at a meet with over 20 programs attending, ending with a 11th place finish for the team.
Both managing to get to the championship round, Asia Jahangir (130 pounds) and Bella Mulder (135) led the team with second place finishes. Jahangir added four wins to her resume and narrowly missed on a 5-0 day but lost a 4-2 sudden victory to Mason City’s opponent. Mulder went 3-0 before a fall in the title match.
Halley Beaudet (190) won her first round of the day and reached 20 wins on the season, as did Jenah Grey (145) who placed fifth after going 3-1 overall.
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Dallas shooting injures 2 as police search for suspect
Dallas police are searching for a shooting suspect after two people were shot early Saturday morning.
The shooting incident happened around 6:30 a.m. when Dallas officers responded to a shooting call in the 7600 block of South Central Expressway, where two people had been shot.
Officials said one victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition by Dallas Fire-Rescue. The other was transported by private vehicle in stable condition.
No arrests have been made as of Saturday afternoon, according to Dallas Police.
The shooting investigation is ongoing and this story will be updated as we learn more.
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All-day restaurant and patio coming to Dallas’ Knox and more top stories
UPDATE 6-26-2026: Gracie has been found about four miles south of the Cedar Hollow Ranch, according to a Facebook update from Real County Animal Rescue. Ranch manager Vic Jones has assembled a team to safely bring the wandering giraffe home.
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A giraffe named Gracie is missing in Texas, and the search for her has become a tall order.
Gracie, who is about 3 years old, has been missing for nearly two weeks after escaping her enclosure at Cedar Hollow Ranch in the Texas Hill Country, said Vic Jones, who owns the remote property about 100 miles west of San Antonio. He said Wednesday, June 24 that Gracie had wandered into a part of the privately owned preserve that other giraffes previously avoided.
Jones said he has sent up helicopters to look for Gracie, a few sightings have trickled in, and a $5,000 reward is on the table.
But the giraffe, which stands roughly the height of a tree, hasn’t turned up.
“She wound up going up and feeding in an area on the hillside and the rocky ledges that none of the other giraffes had ever gone on before,” Jones said. “And when she came down off of there, she came down on the wrong side of the gate.”
The ranch is in rural Real County, where its roughly 2,700 residents were put on alert to be on the lookout for a missing giraffe. Jones said the search area is extremely remote, and the likelihood of Gracie encountering any humans is low.
“People are not in danger of her because she’s not around people,” Jones said. ‘She’s out in very, very rough, heavily wooded lands.”
The Texas Hill Country has one of the largest concentrations of exotic captive animals in the country. Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson said the mild climate and rugged terrain seems to serve as a good stand-in for most of the animals’ native African environments.
He rattled off a list of animals that have gone missing over the years, especially after floods, but said this was his first giraffe.
“I’ve had wildebeests, I’ve had water buffalo, I’ve had monkeys, I’ve had zebras, all go missing,” Johnson said. “Sometimes we recover them, and sometimes we don’t.”
While the middle of Texas is not a giraffe’s native environment, Jones said Gracie should be able to find plenty of leaves and other vegetation to eat. He said other animals were not likely to bother her.
Jones said he initially had helicopters searching an area of about 7,500 acres (3,000 hectares) with no luck. A few days later, there was a report that Gracie was spotted to the south.
But by the time they could search the area, Jones said, she was already gone.
“We’re always two three days late for where the information is coming from, so that makes it tough,” Jones said.
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How to buy Egypt vs. Australia World Cup soccer tickets
Egypt takes on the Socceroos on Friday, July 3. See ticket prices for Dallas
Editor’s note: See all updated scenarios for the 2026 World Cup tournament bracket
The most volatile group has come to a close at the 2026 World Cup.
Egypt and Iran played to a 1-1 draw late on Friday night, which allowed Belgium to rise up from third place all the way to the top spot in the group while Egypt took second. Iran will have to wait and see if their third place finish is good enough to qualify for the knockout round.
As the Group G runner up, Egypt will take on Australia in the round of 32.
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Australia finished as the second-place team in Group D, sitting on four points. Egypt and Australia will face off in Dallas on Friday, July 3, the final match of the round of 32.
Here is everything you need to know in order to buy Egypt vs. Australia World Cup tickets.
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Egypt vs. Australia round of 32 World Cup tickets
As of publication, the cheapest ticket to attend the Egypt vs. Australia costs $834. Lower-level seats for the round of 32 match at AT&T Stadium in Dallas start at $1,083.
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Egypt will take on Australia in the round of 32. Australia finished as the runner up in Group D, finishing the group stage with one win, one draw and one loss.
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Egypt World Cup schedule
- June 15 – Egypt vs. Belgium at Lumen Field in Seattle – DRAW 1-1
- June 21 – Egypt vs. New Zealand at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver – WIN 3-1
- June 26 – Egypt vs. Iran at Lumen Field in Seattle – DRAW 1-1
- Friday, July 3 – Australia vs. Group G runner up at AT&T Stadium in Dallas (round of 32) – Shop tickets
World Cup Group G Standings
| TEAM | POINTS | RECORD |
| Belgium | 5 | 1-2-0 |
| Egypt | 5 | 1-2-0 |
| Iran | 3 | 0-3-0 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 0-1-2 |
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Australia World Cup schedule
- Australia vs. Turkey – WIN 2-0
- Australia vs. United States – LOSS 2-0
- Australia vs. Paraguay – DRAW 1-1
- Friday, July 3 – Australia vs. Group G runner up at AT&T Stadium in Dallas (round of 32) – Shop tickets
World Cup Group D Standings
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