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 ADEL (Aug. 27) -- The Harlan Community volleyball team opened the season Thursday with a perfect 3-0 showing at the ADM Quad Tournament in Adel. HCHS recorded 2-0 wins over Newton (21-15, 21-19) and Algona (21-11, 21-15) and won a 2-1 decision over the host Tigers, 19-21, 21-8, 15-7. Sophomore...
 AHSTW sophomore Brayden Lund (70) partially blocks a first-half punt by Shenandoah’s Zayne Zwickel on Friday night. The Vikings nearly erased a 17-point fourth quarter deficit but fell just short, 24-22. (Photos by Bob Bjoin)
 AVOCA -- AHSTW’s fourth-quarter comeback fell two points short Friday night as the Viking football team lost their season opener to Shenandoah by a final of 24-22. The Vikings, who turned the ball over five times, trailed 14-0 at the half and 24-7 after three quarters before scoring twice in the...
 IKM-Manning’s Drew Doyel is tackled by Tri-Center’s Tristan Vorthmann during Friday night’s season opening non-district game. (Photos by Kim Wegener)
 MANNING (Aug. 28) -- Mason Rohatsch scored four touchdowns (two rushing, two receiving) while quarterback Jaxon Johnson finished with three touchdown passes and one on the ground Friday night to lead the Tri-Center football team past IKM-Manning 42-7 in a non-district season opener. The visiting...
 HCHS junior receiver Connor Frame (2) makes an acrobatic 31-yard reception during the first half of Friday’s season opener vs. Grinnell. Frame pulled the ball away from the Tiger defensive back and trapped the ball against his helmet with two hands as he went to the ground. Frame finished the night with five catches for 94 yards and a touchdown as the Cyclones prevailed 40-28.
 HARLAN (Aug. 28) -- Going into Friday’s season opener, the early returns on Harlan Community football implied that the Cyclone defense was clearly ahead of the offense. Forty points and 549 total yards later, it turns out the offense is pretty good too. Answering all four scores by Grinnell with...
 HCHS sophomore Teagon Kasperbauer (right) throws a pass during last week’s intrasquad scrimmage as William Kenkel (46) and Mason Griffith (5) provide blocking. Kasperbauer will start Friday’s season opener vs. Grinnell at quarterback and may split time at the position with sophomore Brad Curren. (Photo by Mike Oeffner)
 HARLAN (Aug. 28) -- No matter which set of preseason football rankings you follow, Friday’s Week 1 non-district clash between the Harlan Community Cyclones and Grinnell Tigers is expected to be a good one in Class 3A. HCHS is listed third in the first Radio Iowa Poll of the year and sixth by the...
 AREA (Aug. 29) -- The Harlan Community and AHSTW volleyball teams will both play three matches Saturday as they host four and eight-team tournaments. The Cyclone Tournament will be a four-team quad this year starting at 9:00 a.m. HCHS will play in the high school gym, facing Logan-Magnolia first,...
 SHENANDOAH (Aug. 25) -- The Harlan Community cross country team’s first meet of the season was called off Tuesday when the Shenandoah Early Bird Invite was postponed due to high heat and humidity. The meet was rescheduled for Tuesday, September 1. HCHS will now open the season on Saturday morning...
IKM-Manning Varsity Football Team
(Photos courtesy of Kevin Lahndorf, IKM-Manning)
 MANNING (Aug. 27) -- August hasn’t been kind to the IKM-Manning football team, but expectations remain high for September and October. The Wolves enter the 2020 season with just five seniors and 32 players on the roster - a number cut by one when versatile junior speedster Amos Rasmussen suffered...
Harlan Community Varsity Football Team
 HCHS will enter the 2020 football season with a varsity roster of 59 players, including 14 seniors and 19 returning letter winners. (Photo courtesy of Perception Signature Photography)
 HARLAN (Aug. 24) -- The 2019 football season ended in frustrating fashion for Harlan Community when untimely mistakes marred a 9-7 first round playoff loss at Dallas Center-Grimes. That frustration continued in the off-season - at least after mid-March - as COVID-19 shut down weight training in...
 Members of the Grinnell (left) and Harlan Community football teams worked together Monday afternoon to help clean up the storm-ravaged town of Grinnell. A group of 27 HCHS players and six coaches made the two-and-half hour trip and worked from noon to 4:30 p.m. (Photos contributed)
 GRINNELL (Aug. 17) -- On August 28, Harlan Community and Grinnell will clash at Merrill Field in the first game of the 2020 football season. This past Monday, Cyclone and Tiger players worked together for a much greater cause. A crew of 27 players and six HCHS coaches made the two-and-a-half hour...

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