IRWIN (July 13) -- Down 3-0 after three innings Monday night, the AHSTW softball team refused to bow to the pressures of tournament time in its Class 2A regional opener at IKM-Manning. Both teams put the ball in play consistently all night with 18 total hits and just two strikeouts, but it was the...
HARLAN (July 15) -- The Harlan Community baseball team will ride a six-game winning streak into postseason play following a pair of non-conference home wins earlier this week. HCHS defeated Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln 11-3 on Tuesday night and held off Thomas Jefferson 9-7 on Wednesday,...
HARLAN (July 13) -- The Harlan Community softball team completed its regular season on a good note here Monday night, bashing 13 hits and using two big innings to win 9-2 over Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson. Listed 14th in the final Class 4A rankings of the year, the Cyclones (14-4) will now have...
DENISON (July 10) -- Connor Bruck outdueled Evan Turin with a one-hitter Friday afternoon as Harlan Community blanked Denison-Schleswig 1-0 in non-conference baseball action. The game was originally scheduled for Thursday night but was postponed due to wet grounds. HCHS, which beat the Monarchs 2-...
DENISON (July 9) -- The Harlan Community softball team endured another rough start on Thursday night, but this time recovered nicely to post an 11-3 win at Denison-Schleswig. Madison Schumacher’s three-run homer blew the game open during a five-run fourth inning and the pitching combo of Tianna...
DALLAS CENTER (July 7) -- Fifth-ranked (4A) Dallas Center-Grimes erupted for 10 runs on 10 hits in the third inning last Tuesday night to hand the Harlan Community softball team an 11-0, five-inning loss. The Fillies (14-7 overall) capped their 10-run outburst with two-run homers by Elle Nelsen...
COUNCIL BLUFFS (July 11) -- The wins have been hard to come by this summer for an Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton baseball team with just one senior, so Saturday’s postseason victory over Fremont-Mills was plenty satisfying for the young Spartans. Junior ace Tyler Petersen struck out 12 in a complete...
CLARINDA (July 11) -- AHSTW’s baseball season ended in disappointing fashion Saturday afternoon with a 15-0, four-inning loss to Treynor in the first round of Class 2A district tournament play. The Cardinals led 3-0 after two innings, then turned the game into a rout by scoring five runs in the...
AUDUBON (July 11) -- Down to its last out, Boyer Valley plated five runs in the top of the seventh inning to stun the IKM-Manning baseball team 8-7 in Saturday’s Class 1A district quarterfinal game played at Audubon. The Wolves took a 7-3 lead by scoring six times in the fourth inning and seemed...
IRWIN (July 8) -- The ninth-ranked Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton softball team will enter the postseason as the only unbeaten team remaining in Class 1A. The Spartans improved to 13-0 last Wednesday, scoring six runs in the top of the seventh to cap an 11-3 non-conference win at IKM-Manning (3-10). ...