HARLAN -- Six errors and four unearned runs cost the Harlan Community softball team a victory Thursday night (June 15) as Glenwood beat the Cyclones 4-2 in the first game of a doubleheader. Game two was suspended by rain and lightning in the fourth inning with the Rams leading 3-2 and will be...
FORT DODGE -- Harlan Community finished in 16th place with an 0-4 record at the Fort Dodge Softball Tournament this past weekend, facing a pair of top-five ranked teams at the Harlan Rogers Sports Complex. On Friday (June 16), HCHS was defeated by Fort Dodge 9-2 in the first round and lost 7-2 vs...
ELK HORN -- Always be aggressive and make the other team make plays. That’s been the mantra for Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton baseball so far this season and it paid dividends once again Friday night (June 16) as the 10th-ranked (1-A) Spartans topped Ar-We-Va, 2-1, in a mid-season battle of unbeaten...
AVOCA -- Withstanding a nine-run third inning by Riverside, the AHSTW baseball team went ahead with two runs in the bottom of the fifth and held off the Bulldogs 11-10 Thursday night (June 15), improving to 10-5 overall and 8-5 in the Western Iowa Conference. The Vikings held an early 8-0 lead...
IRWIN -- IKM-Manning stayed right in the hunt for a Western Iowa Conference regular season softball title Thursday night (June 15), defeating 14th-ranked (2-A) Treynor 7-2 to avenge its only WIC loss of the year. Wolves’ junior Peyton Gross pitched a two-hitter with eight strikeouts and also...
HARLAN -- Win or lose, the Harlan Community baseball team needed a battle like the one it got from Kuemper Catholic Tuesday night at Jim Goeser Field. Falling behind three separate times during the first six innings, HCHS erased deficits of 2-0, 3-2 and 4-3 against Knights ace Tyler Laing, then...
HARLAN -- Allowing runs in eight straight innings during one stretch, Harlan Community was swept by Kuemper Catholic 7-3 and 11-7 in a Hawkeye 10 Conference softball doubleheader Tuesday night (June 13) at windy H. Jack Field. The Knights took control of the first game with a three-run sixth...
HARLAN -- The Harlan Community softball team scored nine runs in the first and cruised past St. Albert 14-2 Monday night (June 12) in a three-inning contest. Morgan Schaben ripped a pair of doubles in her only two official at-bats and drove in two runs for the Cyclones while Kennadi Carey went 2-...
HARLAN -- Brett Sears hit his first varsity home run and pitched six strong innings on the mound here Monday night (June 12) as the Harlan Community baseball team defeated St. Albert 8-1. Sears finished 2-for-4 with a double, a homer, two runs and two RBI - the home run coming against hard-...
AUDUBON -- Keyed by a seven-run fourth inning, the AHSTW baseball team earned a season split vs. Audubon Monday night with a 10-6, weather-shortened victory over the Wheelers. Play was halted due to lightning at the end of the sixth inning and the game was called less than an hour later. The...