DES MOINES -- A week before the Drake Relays, Harlan Community’s Marcus Klein had never before surpassed 21 feet in the long jump.

 DES MOINES -- Jessica Feldman, a 2013 Harlan Community graduate, competed in two events for the University of South Dakota women’s track team at the Drake Relays. Feldman ran a leg of the Coyotes’ seventh-place 4x1600 relay team on Thursday (above) and also led off USD’s distance medley relay on Saturday. Feldman is a junior for South Dakota, which competes at the NCAA Division I level. (Photo by Mike Oeffner)

 RED OAK -- Harlan Community finished 10th with a limited varsity squad and placed second in the JV standings at Friday’s Red Oak Tiger Relays. With several of their top athletes competing at the Drake Relays, the Cyclones placed in just four varsity events and scored 16 points. They were also limited by the fact that two of their top-scoring events - the shot put and discus, along with the long jump - were cancelled due to wet grounds. 

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community boys soccer team started the season by winning its first four games by margins of 1-0 or 2-1. As the calendar moves into May, however, those low-scoring games are no longer going the Cyclones’ way as they suddenly find themselves barely above the .500 mark. On Friday night at Merrill Field, HCHS suffered its third consecutive one-goal defeat in Hawkeye Ten Conference play, losing to Atlantic 1-0 in an evenly-mat

Boys Tennis Dual • April 25 • at HarlanHCHS 8, Atlantic 1Varsity Singles Results No. 1: Isaac Stitz (H) won 10-3 over Grant Podhajsky; No. 2: Alec Plagman (H) lost 4-10 to Cooper McDermott; No. 3: Michael Rueschenberg (H) won 10-3 over Caleb Williams; No. 4: Nolan Heese (H) won 10-5 over Luke Hohenberger; No. 5: Josh Cheek (H) won 10-4 over William Weppler; No. 6: Kaleb Kaster (H) won 10-1 over Josh McLean.Varsity Doubles Results No.

GUTHRIE CENTER -- The IKM-Manning and Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton track teams combined to win seven events and place 72 times in Thursday night’s Gonzales/Parrish Co-Ed Invitational at Guthrie Center. Panorama won the girls team title with 147 points, followed by Guthrie Center (141) and IKM-Manning (114).

 ATLANTIC -- Following 99 minutes of soccer and a rally from three goals down, the Harlan Community girls were still unable to break the shackles of a long losing streak Friday night in Atlantic. Erasing a 3-0 first-half deficit, the Cyclones tied the match in the 69th minute of regulation but were unable to score during two sudden-death overtime periods.

 NEOLA -- Harlan Community was shut out by the Tri-Center girls for the second time this season last Monday, losing a 5-0 non-conference road match to fall to 1-6. Alyssa Baatz scored three first-half goals for a hat trick and added one assist for T-C, which also beat the Cyclones 7-0 on April 11. Emma Dahir and Tillie Heim both scored once in the second half and Megan Marsh finished with three assists.

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community track girls picked a good night for a breakout performance here Monday, winning seven events and scoring a season-high 181 points to maintain their long run of team titles in the Johnson Cyclone Relays. HCHS outscored Denison-Schleswig (164) by 17 points and finished well ahead of third-place Treynor (115) and Logan-Magnolia (107) in the final standings.