Sports
HARLAN -- In the span of a week, Harlan Community has gone from fighting for its playoff life to trying to avoid the basement of Class 3-A, District 7. A frustrating football season reached a new low point Friday night as HCHS was soundly defeated by Winterset, 47-21, at Merrill Field. The...
TABOR -- Fremont-Mills proved every bit as good as advertised here Friday night, scoring six first-half touchdowns and taking advantage of crucial Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton mistakes to beat the Spartans 50-21 in a battle for the District 7 lead. The top-ranked (8-Player) Knights improved to 7-0...
AREA -- AHSTW and IKM-Manning both pulled off wins in Class 1-A, District 7 football action Friday night. The Vikings got past OA-BCIG 17-12 to improve to 7-0 on the year. The Wolves won 47-6 at ACGC (Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center) for their third win of the year.
MANNING -- The IKM-Manning volleyball team wrapped up a third-place finish in the Western Iowa Conference Thursday night by sweeping Logan-Magnolia, 25-14, 25-23, 25-22. The Wolves improved to 16-7 overall and finished with a WIC mark of 7-2, making them the third seed for this week’s conference...
GLENWOOD -- Harlan Community finished with a 1-1 split at Tuesday night’s Hawkeye Ten volleyball triangular in Glenwood, defeating the host Rams in four sets before being swept by 7th-rated (2-A) St. Albert. HCHS nearly extended the St. Albert match but came up on the short end of a 30-28 decision...
HARLAN -- Say what you will about the first six games of the Harlan Community football season - just never call it boring. The Cyclones have scored 235 points (39.2 average) and allowed 252 at the two-thirds mark of the regular season, going 2-4 overall and 1-3 inside one of the toughest Class 3-A...
WOODBINE -- Payton Sporrer of IKM-Manning placed third overall in the girls race and Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton’s Emily Copic was the Rolling Valley Conference girls runner-up as part of Monday’s combined Woodbine Cross Country Invite and RVC Meet held at the Woodbine school. Sporrer’s time of 21:...
ELK HORN -- And then there were two. The tie atop the Rolling Valley Conference volleyball standings was whittled down to just a pair here Tuesday night after Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton handled Coon Rapids-Bayard in four sets (25-16, 25-10, 22-25, 25-18). The Spartans (11-12 overall) won their...
HARLAN -- As regular season losses go, this one was a gut wrencher for the Harlan Community football team. Leading sixth-ranked (3-A) Carroll 19-0 at halftime, the Cyclones allowed 35 second-half points, turned the ball over three times in their last four possessions and had their playoff hopes...
NEWTON -- The Harlan Community volleyball team took some steps in the right direction at Saturday’s Newton Tournament, stealing a set from top-ranked Pella and placing third out of eight teams with a 3-2 record. HCHS finished second to Pella in Pool B, lost another three-setter to Newton in the...
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