For the first time this season, the IKM-Manning Wolves volleyball team was on the court seeing some game action where they came away with two wins, one each against the Ar-We-Va Rockets and the Exira-EHK Spartans.

The HCHS Cyclones girls cross country team has placed first in three consecutive meets, most recently winning the Gary Meyer Invitational with 72 points, five ahead of Lewis Central and Sioux Center, who tied with 77 Tuesday at the Prairie Rose Golf Course in Brunsville.

The HCHS Cyclones football team will play its first road game of the season against the 0-2 Glenwood Rams Friday night. They are coming off two home games where they went 1-1. After taking a 31-10 season opener loss to Lewis Central, they returned the following week to dominate Denison 49-7.

In the third set of Monday’s road volleyball match leading 25-24, Cyclone Senior Aubrey Schwieso stepped up and delivered the final shot of the night, hitting the ball into the backcourt against the CAM Cougar defense, winning the set 26-24. The other two sets were won by scores of 27-25 and 25-12.

When multiple Cyclones were sidelined due to injuries Friday night, the phase “next man up” is commonly uttered, and when the Cyclones took the field, it didn’t take them long to put away their rival, the Denison Monarchs, easily beating them 49-7 for their first win of the season.

In the fourth set of Thursday’s home volleyball match, Cyclone Senior Macy Mueller scored the final point of the night which landed in between two Monarch defenders, winning the set 25-23, and giving the Cyclones their fourth win of the season, along with handing the Monarchs their first loss.

After a tough 31-10 loss in their season opener to the Lewis Central Titans, the HCHS Cyclones football team returns to Merrill Field Friday night looking for their first win against the Denison-Schleswig Monarchs.
“I’m really looking forward to it,” said Senior Lukas Francis. “What happened against Lewis Central sucked, but you’ve just got to move past that and move on to greater things.”

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Tuesday afternoon, the HCHS Cyclones cross country team competed in the Shenandoah Early Bird event that featured 12 other schools. The girls finished first as a team with 32 points, 12 ahead of Treynor who came in second place with 44. The boys finished in sixth with 135 points, 88 points behind Red Oak, who won with 47.

After a weekend tournament in which the AHSTW Vikings volleyball team took just one of six, they returned to action Monday at home for a triangular which also featured the Nodaway Valley Wolverines and Griswold Tigers.
During their match with Nodaway Valley, the Vikings made quick work of them taking the first two sets by scores of 25-6 and 25-8.

2024 HCHS graduate Cade Sears left his senior season of Cyclone baseball early to start a new journey of playing football for South Dakota State, but left realizing he had a bigger passion for baseball, he will now be playing baseball at Iowa Central Community College.

After the Shenandoah Early Bird event got postponed, the HCHS cross country team wasn’t fazed by it, coming in first place amongst the girls with 50 points, just seven ahead of Lewis Central, and the boys finishing fourth with 143 points.

Saturday in Harlan, the HCHS Cyclones volleyball team played six matches between Glenwood, Carroll, Treynor, Underwood, St. Albert, and Missouri Valley. Unfortunately, the Cyclones were only able to come away with just two wins against St. Albert (21-17 and 22-20) and Missouri Valley (21-6 and 21-15).
“Proud is an understatement,” said Cyclone Head Coach Elle Crees. “These girls worked so hard and played together.”

It didn’t take long for the Lewis Central Titan offense to get going, as with just under eight minutes remaining in the first quarter, on a 2nd and goal, Senior Titan Brody Patlan went for a 4-yard touchdown run and dive getting into the end zone, putting his team up 6-0, which was followed by the extra point from Junior Jimmy Scott.

In their third set of the night in their second game of volleyball, the Exira-EHK Spartans were tied with the Griswold Tigers at 14 points, needing to win by two, and were able to do so scoring the next two points, giving them their second win after defeating the Lenox Tigers in three sets in their first match of the night.

Under the leadership of defensive coordinator and linebacker coach Sam Brummer, the Cyclones are expected to have a stellar year defensively starting with their season opener at Merrill Field Friday night against their rival, the Lewis Central Titans.