AVOCA (April 4) -- The AHSTW track teams combined to win 11 events during Thursday’s AHSTW Co-Ed Invitational as the girls placed second and the boys took third in the final team standings. The Lady Vikes won seven events and placed second in four others, scoring 152 points and placing second behind Underwood’s 172.

 HARLAN (April 5) -- For the second time in as many duals this season, the Harlan Community boys tennis team lost 9-0 in Friday’s home meet against St. Albert. The Falcons dominated in singles play, winning 10-1 or 10-0 in five out of six matches. HCHS number six Braden Fink played the closest match, losing 3-10 to Vince Arculeo. The Cyclones’ number one doubles team of Brock Bruns and Jonathan Cheek played well against St.

 HARLAN (April 5) -- Jay Swanson led the way with a medalist round of 38 on Friday as the Harlan Community boys golf team opened the season with a 20-stroke win over Denison-Schleswig at the Harlan Golf and Country Club. HCHS, which also counted rounds of 44 by Jacob Dotzler and Mason Peters and a 47 from Blake Goshorn, scored a 173 to Denison’s 193.

 MANNING (April 6) -- Sophomore Kyler Rasmussen shot nine-hole rounds of 44 and 37 at the Manning & Manilla Golf Club Saturday, scoring a medalist round of 81 to lead the IKM-Manning boys to first place in the IKM-M Invitational. The Wolves finished with a 365 team score, followed by Coon Rapids-Bayard (371), Boyer Valley (387), Underwood (388) and ACGC (462). Rasmussen’s 81 earned first-place medalist honors by two strokes over Grant Kenk

 ANITA (April 1) -- The Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton boys golf team opened the season with a first-place showing at Crestwood Hills Golf Course last Monday in the first Rolling Valley Conference Meet of the season. The Spartans, who return four members of last year’s third-place Class 1A state tournament team, scored a 180 in Anita to top CAM, the host school, by seven shots.

 COON RAPIDS (April 1) -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton junior Jacey Anthofer shot a medalist round of 41 last Monday as the Spartan girls golf team opened the season with a Rolling Valley Conference Meet at the Coon Rapids Country Club. Anthofer, who placed 12th at the 1A state tournament last year, parred four out of nine holes on the par-35 course, finishing five shots ahead of runner-up medalist Sammi Jahde of CAM. The Spartan scorecard also i

 HARLAN (April 1) -- The surprise of Monday’s soccer match between Harlan Community and Lewis Central wasn’t the fact that the Cyclone boys won, but the manner in which they did so. Dodging several early bullets during a scoreless first half initially controlled by the Titans, HCHS gradually took over the match from a possession and opportunity standpoint and scored four goals in a 25-minute span of the second half to win 4-0 at Merrill Field.

 SERGEANT BLUFF (April 2) -- The Harlan Community track teams fell just one point short of a third straight sweep to start the season - the girls placing first and the boys coming in second at Tuesday’s Sergeant Bluff-Luton Warrior Relays. Bolstered by four gold medals and 22 top-four finishes, the Cyclone girls scored 159 points to win their third team championship in as many tries.

 AVOCA (April 2) -- Lane Nelson and Emma Jorgensen both earned medalist honors once as the AHSTW golf teams opened the season with a pair of home meets earlier this week. On Monday, the AHSTW boys posted a team score of 202 and defeated a short-handed Griswold squad playing with just two golfers.