AVOCA (Aug.

 MANNING (Aug. 31) -- Outgained by more than 300 yards Friday night, the IKM-Manning football team scored twice on special teams and found a way to hold off Underwood for a 28-26 non-district win. Trailing 28-14 after three quarters, the Eagles scored twice in the fourth but missed an extra point with 5:13 to go and failed on their two-point conversion pass at the 1:03 mark.

 LOGAN (Aug. 30) -- Quentin Dreyer’s fifth-place individual finish led the IKM-Manning boys to third as a team at Thursday’s Logan-Magnolia Cross Country Invitational. The meet was postponed two days due to rain. Team champions were the Lo-Ma girls with an impressive team score of 25 and the Tri-Center boys (62).

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (Sept. 1) -- Harlan Community’s cross country meet at Iowa Western Community College - the Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln Invite - was cancelled on Saturday morning due to wet grounds and has not been rescheduled. The Cyclone harriers will travel to IWCC for the Lewis Central Invite this Saturday at 9:00 a.m. The varsity girls will run first, followed by the varsity boys.

 HARLAN (Aug.

 ROCKWELL CITY -- Harlan Community Activities Director Mitch Osborn announced the following changes to the Cyclone volleyball schedule, which will effectively swap out one Saturday tournament for another. The HCHS volleyball team will no longer be playing in the Newton Tournament that was originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 29. Newton moved up the tournament to Thursday, Sept.

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 AVOCA (Aug.

 UNDERWOOD (Aug. 24) -- Drake Partridge caught four touchdown passes from Blake Osbahr and also returned a punt 57 yards to paydirt last Friday night, leading the AHSTW football team past Underwood 47-14 in the non-district season opener for both teams. Partridge hauled in four receptions for 121 yards in the game, each going for a touchdown with a long of 43.

 GUTHRIE CENTER (Aug. 24) -- IKM-Manning scored four touchdowns in the opening 16 minutes and cruised past ACGC 35-0 in last Friday’s season-opening football game. The Wolves’ five touchdown drives averaged just four plays and covered 53 yards or less, including a one-play, two-yard series in the second quarter. Stephen Grimm opened the scoring by catching a 48-yard pass from Kyler Rasmussen and later added a 13-yard TD run.

 HARLAN (Aug.

 HARLAN (Aug. 25) -- The Harlan Community volleyball team started off strong but struggled to the finish line of Saturday’s eight-hour Cyclone Tournament, opening the season with a 3-3 record and a sixth-place finish. HCHS won its first three matches of the day, including a hard-fought 21-19, 21-19 decision over eventual champion Tri-Center, before losing 2-0 decisions vs.

 GLENWOOD (Aug.

 SHENANDOAH -- Chloe Falkena and Julia Kock both placed in the top six last Tuesday (Aug. 21) as the AHSTW cross country teams opened the season at the Shenandoah Early Bird Invite. No team scores were kept, but the AHSTW girls unofficially finished second to Shenandoah (39) with a point total of 61. Falkena placed fifth out of 62 girls with a five-kilometer time of 22:28 while Kock was close behind with a sixth-place time of 22:32.

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