Sports
HARLAN (Feb. 5) -- On a night when shots weren’t falling with the same regularity as they have been, the Harlan Community girls still found a way to win. Answering two significant comebacks by a fiesty Lewis Central squad, the 10th-ranked (4A) Cyclones outscored the Titans 12-3 during a key second...
HARLAN (Feb. 5) -- It was a game the Harlan Community boys basketball team badly needed to win... for psychological reasons if nothing else. HCHS entered Friday with a 1-5 record in down-to-the-wire games, including a five-point loss at Lewis Central in early January. There were still plenty of...
HARLAN (Feb. 6) -- During John Murtaugh’s first 16 years as the Harlan Community head wrestling coach, the Cyclones never had as many as nine district qualifiers. They have now achieved that feat two years in a row. Claiming six champions and three runners-up, HCHS scored 217 points and placed...
OAKLAND (Feb. 6) -- AHSTW juniors Garrison Gettler and Hayden Fischer kept their seasons alive on Saturday by placing first or second in the Class 1A, Sectional 13 Wrestling Tournament held at Riverside High School. Gettler (30-5) was the sectional champion at 160 pounds after outlasting Cole...
ELK HORN (Feb. 5) -- The Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton girls put an exclamation point on another Rolling Valley Conference championship here Friday night, beating CAM 74-53 to improve to 19-0 overall and 15-0 in the RVC. The fifth-ranked Spartans closed out the regular season at Boyer Valley Monday...
OAKLAND -- AHSTW senior Claire Denning surpassed 1,000 career points during the Lady Vikes’ 65-19 win at Riverside on January 30. Denning hit four 3-pointers and scored a game-high 22 points in the victory. Claire Harris also made four treys and scored 17 points while Kailey Jones tallied 13...
AVOCA (Feb. 1) -- Treynor gained the inside track for a WIC title Monday night, holding off second-ranked AHSTW 68-64 in an entertaining Western Iowa Conference boys basketball game. A potentially huge rubber match, though, may still be lurking down the district tournament road. Trailing 36-25 at...
CARROLL (Feb. 2) -- Jocelyn Cheek keeps on knocking down threes and the Harlan Community girls basketball team continues to steamroll the opposition. The 11th-ranked (Class 4A) Cyclones notched two more lopsided wins earlier this week, smacking Greene County 58-16 Monday night in Harlan before...
CARROLL (Feb. 2) -- Hot and cold. Jekyll and Hyde. Whatever you call it, the Harlan Community boys basketball team had an up-and-down start to the week against Greene County and Kuemper Catholic. On Monday night in Harlan, the Cyclones shot 62.5 percent from the floor, made 12-of-23 treys and led...
ELK HORN (Jan. 30) -- When the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton and Coon Rapids-Bayard girls met in December, the Spartans battled foul trouble and pulled away late for an eight-point win. The rematch on Saturday was never that close. Racing out to a 23-4 lead after one quarter, Exira-EHK continued to...
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