COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Harlan Community won four events and scored 69 points to place fifth at Thursday’s Council Bluffs Girls Track Invitational at the Gale Wickersham Athletic Complex. HCHS coach Doug Renkly scaled back the workload for many of his top runners and left some events unentered as the Cyclones looked to rest up for Monday’s Swede Johnson Cyclone Relays in Harlan. Led by a four-gold night from sophomore standout Darby Thomas, Council

 HARLAN -- Harlan Community senior Jessica Phipps has signed a letter of intent to join the Morningside College women’s bowling team in the fall of 2017. Jessica is the daughter of Donald and Nancy Phipps, Harlan. Phipps becomes the fourth Cyclone bowler in the last two years to sign with Morningside, joining Bailey Portwood, Elizabeth Stroud and Joshua Grote from the class of 2016.

 HARLAN -- Harlan Community won two out of three doubles matches to outlast Shenandoah, 5-4, in boys tennis action here Thursday, improving its dual record to 5-4 with three regular-season meets remaining. Two days after losing a 5-4 heartbreaker to Glenwood, the Cyclones split their six varsity singles matches with the Mustangs before taking care of business in doubles play. The combo of Isaac Stitz and Alec Plagman dominated their No.

2017 HCHS Girls Tennis ScheduleThurs., April 6    at Denison-Schleswig (Lost 9-0)Tues., April 11    vs. Lewis Central (Lost 8-1)Thurs., April 13    at Audubon (Won 9-0)Mon., April 17    vs. Kuemper Catholic (Lost 9-0)Tues., April 18    at Glenwood (Lost 9-0)Thurs., April 20    at Shenandoah (Lost 9-0)Sat., April 22    Atlantic Trojan Tournament (4th Place)Mon., April 24    vs. Atlantic (V/JV), 4:30Tues., April 25    vs. St.

2017 HCHS Boys Tennis ScheduleTues., March 28    vs. CB Abraham Lincoln (Lost 5-4)Tues., April 4    at CB Thomas Jefferson (Won 9-0)Thurs., April 6    vs. Denison-Schleswig (Lost 7-2)Fri., April 7    vs. St. Albert (Won 9-0)Tues., April 11    at Lewis Central (Won 8-1)Thurs., April 13    vs. Audubon (Won 9-0)Mon., April 17    at Kuemper Catholic (Lost 8-1)Tues., April 18    vs. Glenwood (Lost 5-4)Thurs., April 20    vs.

 DES MOINES -- Area track and field athletes have qualified five events - four individual and one relay - for the 2017 Drake Relays in Des Moines later this week. The list of local qualifiers includes three entries for the Harlan Community girls team and one each for the HCHS and AHSTW boys.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- An off day in the shot put only served as motivation when it came time for Gillian Streit to throw the discus at Tuesday’s Lewis Central Co-Ed Track Meet. Three spins later, the Harlan Community senior had all but locked up a coveted spot in next week’s Drake Relays. With absolutely zero help from the wind, Streit launched her three best discus throws of the season in succession - all more than 120 feet - during the second f

 AUDUBON -- The Harlan Community girls tennis team picked up their first meet win of the season on Thursday, April 13, scoring a 9-0 victory at Audubon. All nine varsity matches were decided by scores of 8-0, 8-1, 8-2 or 8-3. The 8-0 decisions were recorded by Nicole Lange in singles play as well as the doubles team of Lexie Bruns and Taylor Andersen. HCHS also won two out of three junior varsity matches.

 AVOCA -- The AHSTW boys soccer team picked up a pair of hard-fought home wins earlier this week, improving to 4-0 overall with victories of 3-1 over St. Albert Monday and 2-1 over Treynor on Tuesday. AHSTW 3, St. Albert 1 - Senior Preslyn Grobe scored a pair of goals and sophomore Kyle Branan added another as the Vikings notched an impressive non-conference win on Monday.

 SPENCER -- All six of Harlan Community’s golfers shot under 90 and finished in the top half of the field as the Cyclones placed fourth out of 13 teams at Monday’s Spencer Boys Golf Invitational. HCHS junior Kevin Campbell scored a 37 on the back nine and finished with a 5-over-par round of 77 to tie for eighth place out of 74 players in the field and earn a medal.

 HARLAN -- Glenwood and Kuemper Catholic posted the top five rounds of the day and both outscored Harlan Community in a boys golf triangular Tuesday (April 18) at the Harlan Golf and Country Club. Paced by three scores of 39, Glenwood won the meet with a team score of 159, followed by Kuemper’s 162 and the Cyclones’ 167.

 OMAHA, NEB. -- For the first time in eight years and 13 head-to-head matchups, Harlan Community got the best of Glenwood Thursday night in boys soccer. Scoring twice in each half and getting goals from four different players, the unbeaten Cyclones kept their shutout streak intact and ended a long dry spell vs.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Kevin Campbell earned medalist honors for the second straight meet as Harlan Community improved to 2-0 on the boys golf season with a 165-179 dual win over Lewis Central last Tuesday (April 11) at Fox Run Golf Club. Campbell started his round three over par after shooting a 6 on the first two holes, then played even par the rest of the way to shoot his second 39 in as many meets.

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community boys tennis team improved its dual record to 4-2 overall on Thursday (April 13) with a dominating 9-0 win over Audubon. HCHS played at Kuemper Catholic on Monday and will host Glenwood on Tuesday and Shenandoah on Thursday.

 NEOLA -- Senior Jaycie Schueman won the 400-meter hurdles and placed third in the 100-meter hurdles at Thursday’s Tri-Center Girls Track Invitational, leading AHSTW to an eighth-place team finish.