ELK HORN -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton scored the last seven points of the game to defeat CAM 64-60 in boys basketball action last Monday night. The Spartans improved to 11-4 overall and 11-3 in the Rolling Valley Conference. Clinging to a one-point lead with nine seconds left, the Spartans’ Trey Nelson forced a turnover and CAM quickly fouled Josh Pettepier.

 AUDUBON -- The IKM-Manning boys outscored Audubon 24-8 in the third quarter to break open a close game and beat the Wheelers 64-41 on Thursday night. Sam Gross hit five 3-pointers in the game and led the Wolves with 15 points. Ben Wegner added 12 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks, Jared Johnson totaled 11 points, seven steals, six assists and six rebounds and Alex Lingle had 11 points off the bench.

 AVOCA -- Logan-Magnolia built a 36-21 halftime lead and finished off the AHSTW girls 68-47 last Tuesday night, improving to 15-1 behind 27 points from Kenzie Cunard. Freshman Kinsey Scheffler paced the Lady Vikes with 12 points, followed by Katie Anzalone with eight, Sarah Butcher seven, and Josie Denning, Jaycie Schueman and Morgan Eckmann all with five. Kate Wise added three points and Sidney Nelsen scored two.

 REGIONAL -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton, AHSTW and IKM-Manning will all have the opportunity to play at least one home game when girls basketball regional play begins next month. The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union announced its postseason pairings for Class 1-A, 2-A and 3-A on Monday, January 23, and will release the 4-A and 5-A pairings on Jan. 30. The unbeaten Exira-EHK girls are the highest-ranked team in Class 1-A, Region 1 at No.

 DENISON -- The Harlan Community girls were unable to take advantage of 18 steals on defense Thursday night, shooting just 23 percent from the field in a 46-36 conference loss at Denison-Schleswig. HCHS (5-8 overall, 3-5 in the Hawkeye Ten) matched the Monarchs with 14 points in the third quarter but scored eight or fewer in the remaining three periods.

 AVOCA -- There’s many reasons behind AHSTW’s 14-1 start on the basketball floor this winter, and most of them were on display during Tuesday night’s 67-50 home win over Logan-Magnolia. Avenging their only loss of the season with a closing 16-4 exclamation point in the last seven minutes, the Vikings rode a hot shooting start by R.J.

 CARROLL -- Kuemper Catholic opened Monday night’s game vs.

CRESTON -- On a night highlighted by senior Aaron Johannsen’s 100th career win, Harlan Community finished 0-2 as a team at Tuesday’s Creston/Orient-Macksburg wrestling double dual. HCHS nearly erased an 18-point deficit in its first dual against Lewis Central before falling just short, 33-31, then lost to the host Panthers 62-12. Creston (16-3 overall) also beat LC 50-19, locking up second place in the Hawkeye Ten dual standings with a 9-1 rec

January 19 • at Ida GroveVARSITY GIRLS -- OA-BCIG 2080, HCHS 1942Indv. Total: OA-BCIG 1374, HCHS 1277; Baker Games: OA-BCIG 706, HCHS 665HCHS Game & Series ScoresKenzie Jones    142-155 -- 297Jessie Phipps    124-147 -- 271Molly Wingert    113-156 -- 269Samantha McCool    151-109 -- 260Jayden Gessert    96-84 -- 180Baker GamesHCHS: 113, 125, 174, 135, 118.OA-BCIG: 129, 171, 134, 118, 154.