AVOCA (Jan. 15) -- AHSTW junior Kinsey Scheffler scored 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds last Tuesday night as the Lady Vikes defeated Tri-Center 58-51 to complete a sweep of the season series. Claire Denning (11 points) and Kailey Jones (10) also scored in double figures for AHSTW while Katie...
AVOCA (Jan. 15) -- AHSTW held off a late rally by Tri-Center last Tuesday night to beat the Trojans 53-50 and earn a split in the regular season series. Clayton Akers paced the Vikings with 17 points, including five 3-pointers, and also grabbed a team-high six rebounds. Joey Cunningham knocked...
ELK HORN (Jan. 15) -- Some folks thought she traveled. Others claimed she released the ball after the buzzer. Maybe both. None of it matters, though, because freshman Mollie Rasmussen’s last-second 3-pointer will forever go in the books as a walk-off game-winner for the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton...
ELK HORN (Jan. 15) -- Trailing by five at the start of the fourth quarter Tuesday night, the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton boys nipped at the heels of Ar-We-Va for the final eight minutes but couldn’t get over the hump in a frustrating 58-53 loss to the seventh-ranked (1A) Rockets. Ar-We-Va (13-0...
HARLAN (Jan. 15) -- As the free throws keep piling up, so too does the win total for the Harlan Community boys basketball team. The Cyclones extended their winning streak to six games on Tuesday night, overcoming a slow start in both halves to defeat Ballard 59-54 and improve to 8-4 on the season...
HARLAN (Jan. 15) -- Sophomore Josie Fleischmann almost single-handedly shot the Ballard girls past Harlan Community Tuesday night, hitting six three-pointers in the third period alone as the 13th-ranked (4A) Bombers outscored the Cyclones 23-5 in the quarter and won the ball game 53-31. HCHS held...
MOUNT AYR (Jan. 12) -- The Harlan Community wrestling team finished a perfect 8-0 at Mount Ayr’s Ron Scott Memorial Dual Tournament last weekend, claiming its third team title of the season and improving its record to 20-2 overall. Cyclone seniors Oscar Olmos (145 pounds), Joey Arkfeld (220) and...
HARLAN (Jan. 10) -- Jayden Gessert rolled a two-game series of 338 (158-180) and Olivia Petersen scored a 327 (148-179) to lead the Harlan Community girls bowling team past Clarinda 2,181 to 2,111 at Cyclone Lanes last Thursday. HCHS improved its dual record to 4-2 on the season. Petersen, a first...
RED OAK -- The Harlan Community girls and boys bowling teams posted their best scores of the season at the Red Oak Tournament January 8, placing second and third, respectively. The girls team standings were as follows: 1. Lewis Central 2,387, 2. HCHS 2,311, 3. Shenandoah 2,247, 4. Creston 2,061, 5...
ELK HORN (Jan. 12) -- As of last week, the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton boys basketball team had yet to crack the Associated Press top 10 rankings in Class 1A. What the senior-laden Spartans have done thus far is handle nearly every obstacle in their path. On Saturday afternoon, Exira-EHK extended...