Sports
MARSHALLTOWN (May 29) -- The IKM-Manning girls golf team finished 10th out of 10 teams at the Class 1A State Tournament last week, scoring 18-hole rounds of 432 and 435 for a total of 867. Held at the American Legion Golf Course in Marshalltown, the state meet featured a suspension of play during...
NEOLA (May 28) -- For the third time in four years, AHSTW finished the girls soccer season with a regional loss to Tri-Center. The difference this time around was the competitiveness of the match. Facing an opponent that was fast, physical and skilled with the ball, the Lady Vikes never backed...
TREYNOR (May 28) -- The Harlan Community girls soccer team advanced to the regional semifinal round courtesy of Tuesday’s 3-0 win over Logan-Magnolia in a Class 1A, Region 2 quarterfinal played at Treynor. Freshman Raegen Wicks scored two goals and senior Kara Weis added another for the Cyclones (...
HARLAN (May 29) -- The Harlan Community baseball team improved to 4-0 Wednesday night, sweeping Shenandoah 8-0 and 24-7 in a Hawkeye Ten doubleheader played at Jim Goeser Field. The twin bill was scheduled to be played at Shenandoah but was moved to Harlan due to heavy rains in southern Iowa. The...
AVOCA -- The AHSTW Community School District has filled two key positions from within during recent weeks, hiring G.G. Harris as the new head football coach (effective immediately) and Jason Holst as 7-12 Activities Director (effective July 1). Davis Pattee previously held both positions but was...
Monday, May 20Woodbine 6, Exira-EHK 5 (8) WOODBINE -- Trailing 5-0 early, Exira-EHK eventually forced extra innings with three runs in the top of the seventh but the host Tigers won in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the eighth in the season opener for both teams. Spartan senior Cole Burmeister...
Monday, May 20Exira-EHK 11, Woodbine 1 (5) WOODBINE -- Macy Emgartner struck out 12 Woodbine batters in five innings and eighth-grader Shay Burmeister had five of the team’s nine stolen bases as Exira-EHK rolled past the Tigers 11-1 in last Monday’s season opener. Emgartner, a second-year varsity...
OAKLAND (May 25) -- AHSTW rallied twice in the first half to tie up Greene County during Saturday’s Class 1A, Substate 8 boys soccer final. A third comeback was not in the cards, however, as the fourth-ranked Vikings lost to the ninth-ranked Rams 5-2 at Riverside High School. Greene County’s...
COUNCIL BLUFFS (May 25) -- When it comes to Class 2A boys soccer in southwest Iowa, perhaps the only team playing better than Harlan Community of late was the one the Cyclones met in Saturday’s Substate 8 final. Scoring twice in a 54-second span of the first half and adding two more goals late,...
NEWTON (May 23) -- The Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton boys never got their second chance after some opening-day struggles at the Class 1A Boys State Golf Tournament. The Spartans posted a team score of 364 at the Westwood Golf Course Thursday, finishing last out of eight teams when Friday’s second day...
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