MISSOURI VALLEY -- AHSTW and IKM-Manning combined to qualify 10 events for state Thursday night (May 11) while competing in the Class 2-A Co-Ed State Qualifying Track Meet held at Missouri Valley. The Viking boys led the area contingent with five qualifiers, the AHSTW and IKM-M girls both qualified two events and the IKM-M boys had one qualifier.

 AUDUBON -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton distance runner Evan Wilson and the Spartan boys shuttle hurdle relay team stepped up with their best times of the year on Thursday (May 11), earning at-large state meet bids after placing third in the Class 1-A State Qualifying Track Meet held at Audubon. The Spartans’ lone qualifiers will compete Thursday at the 2017 State Track and Field Championships inside Des Moines’ Drake Stadium. Wilson, a junior,

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community girls tennis team finished regular-season play with a 2-8 record following last Tuesday’s 8-1 dual loss vs. Red Oak. Nicole Lange picked up the Cyclones’ only victory in the No. 2 singles match, beating Macy Baker 8-5. Ashley Petsche (2-8), Haley Swisher (0-8), Brooke Nelson (1-8), Lexie Bruns (1-8) and Taylor Andersen (5-8) all lost during singles play and Red Oak also swept the doubles matches.

 HARLAN -- Losing two of their top players to injury during the course of the game, Harlan Community was defeated by 13th-ranked (1-A) Underwood 4-1 in girls soccer action at Merrill Field Friday night (May 12). With the scored tied 1-1 midway through the first half, HCHS senior Haley Arkfeld suffered a leg injury in the 19th minute and was carried off the field.

 HARLAN -- Eleven games into the soccer season, only two teams have managed to find the back of the net against Harlan Community. Defensive shutout number nine was posted Monday night (May 8) at Merrill Field when the Cyclone boys earned their most impressive win yet with a 1-0 decision over Lewis Central. The game’s only score came in the 23rd minute when HCHS junior Tanner Fink’s corner kick curled back toward the net and was deflected in by

 HARLAN -- One night after suffering a 10-0 loss at the hands of Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson, the Harlan Community girls soccer team picked up a much-needed 6-1 home win over AHSTW in non-conference action on Tuesday (May 9). Kylee Hinz and Haley Arkfeld scored two goals each for the Cyclones while freshman Lucy Borkowski and senior Michaela Bissen both scored their first goal of the season. Bissen also had two assists in the match as HCHS

 SHENANDOAH -- The Harlan Community boys golf team evened up its final dual record at 4-4 and perhaps gained some momentum for postseason play Tuesday night (May 9) with a triangular sweep over Shenandoah and Red Oak at the American Legion Country Club (par 35) in Shenandoah. Led by Ross Petersen’s runner-up medalist round of 37, which included a key eagle on the par-5 seventh hole, HCHS outshot the host Mustangs by a single stroke, 156-157, w

 HARLAN -- On a warm and windy day for golf, the Harlan Community boys struggled to post any standout scores on their home course and slipped to eighth place in the Hawkeye Ten Conference Tournament held Monday (May 8) at the Harlan Golf and Country Club. HCHS finished 26 strokes behind the H-10 champion Atlantic Trojans, posting a team score of 351 as all six Cyclone golfers placed between 20th and 40th among the 65-player field. Ryan DeMott

 RED OAK -- Playing without their number one golfer in the lineup, the Harlan Community girls scored a 433 and placed eighth in Monday’s Hawkeye Ten Conference Tournament at the Red Oak Country Club. Senior Kristen Ferry led the Cyclones with a round of 98 (52-46) on Red Oak’s hilly 18-hole course, junior Ellen Keast shot a 110 and freshmen Kayla Powers and Haley Manz added rounds of 112 and 113, respectively. HCHS did not have the services of