COUNCIL BLUFFS (Nov. 16) -- The Harlan Community girls basketball team saw its first action of the season late last week, beating IKM-Manning in a jamboree on Thursday night (Nov. 15) in Harlan and losing a Hall of Pride Scrimmage by one point at Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson on Friday. The Cyclones and Wolves played just two quarters to close out Thursday’s eight-team jamboree.

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 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- South Dakota junior forward Taylor Frederick has been named the initial Summit League Player of the Week for the period ending Nov. 11, the league office announced Monday.  Frederick, an Earling native and 2016 graduate of Harlan Community, earned the award for the first time in her career. She led the Coyotes to a 77-65 win over Creighton with 26 points on 9-of-12 shooting.

    HARLAN - Harlan Community senior Kyle Knudson, son of Rodney and Rhonda Knudson, Harlan, is continuing his Friday, November 30 goal to raise $1,500 this year toward Kicking For The Dream, a fund drive created by former Harlanite and NFL kicker Billy Cundiff as a way to support the Colleen’s Dream Foundation and its fight against ovarian cancer.    “I would like to thank everyone who has donated for making this season more than just winning

 CEDAR FALLS (Nov. 15) -- Of the six state championship football games set for later this week at the UNI-Dome, only one involves a pair of unbeaten teams. Second-ranked AHSTW (12-0) and No. 1 Hudson (12-0) will play for the Class A state title on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Both teams advanced with semifinal wins last Friday. Hudson, a state runner-up last year, nearly let a three-score halftime lead evaporate before holding off No.

 CEDAR FALLS (Nov. 9) -- A 27-year state title game drought has come to a resounding halt for the AHSTW football team. The 2nd-ranked Vikings looked right at home inside the warm confines of the UNI-Dome Friday afternoon, overcoming a slow start with 36 unanswered points and defeating No.

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 HARLAN (Nov. 15) -- The Harlan Community girls basketball team will play IKM-Manning in the fourth matchup of an eight-team jamboree set for Thursday in Harlan. The Cyclones and Wolves will play a two-quarter game starting at approximately 7:15 p.m. Additional matchups include Griswold vs. Atlantic at 5:00 p.m., Riverside vs. Carroll at 5:45 and Treynor vs.

 CEDAR FALLS (Nov. 9) -- For the AHSTW football team, the fourth time could be the charm Friday afternoon as the Vikings seek the program’s first-ever win inside the UNI-Dome against Edgewood-Colesburg. The Class A semifinal playoff matchup will kick off at 1:00 p.m. and figures to be a good one.

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 EXIRA (Nov. 2) -- Avenging a season-opening loss on the same field in August, fifth-ranked Fremont-Mills jumped on top early and defeated No. 7 Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton 61-20 in an Eight-Player football quarterfinal playoff game here last Friday night. The Knights (10-1) will face New London (10-1) in a state semifinal game at the UNI-Dome Thursday at noon.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (Nov. 2) -- It’s a tall task that awaits the Harlan Community football team Friday night, but also an enviable one. Forty-six Class 3A squads watching from the outside of the playoffs this week would love to still be playing. “Absolutely,” said HCHS head coach Curt Bladt, who is currently guiding his 36th Cyclone playoff team in 41 years at the helm.

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