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DES MOINES -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton junior Sophia Peppers was one of six girls named to the Class 1-A All-Tournament Team at the Girls State Basketball Tournament in Des Moines last Friday night. In two state tournament games, Peppers ranked third in the 1-A field with 43 points while also...
DES MOINES -- Former AvoHa-Shelby-Tennant all-stater Amy Towne is one of three 2017 inductees into the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union Basketball Hall of Fame. Towne will be honored during halftime of Saturday night’s Class 5-A state championship game at Wells Fargo Arena, which can be...
DES MOINES -- Thursday’s Class 1-A state semifinals featured top-ranked and defending champion Springville (23-2) vs. seventh-ranked Kingsley-Pierson (24-1) at 10:00 a.m., followed by No. 3 Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton (24-1) vs. No. 2 Turkey Valley (22-3) at 11:45. The winners will meet in the 1-A...
DES MOINES -- For the second time in three years, Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton has reached the semifinals of the Girls State Basketball Tournament. The 3rd-ranked Spartans did what they needed to do in Monday afternoon’s Class 1-A quarterfinal clash with No. 8 Sidney, playing some of their best...
HARLAN -- The Harlan Community Athletic Booster Club Hall of Fame inductees for 2017 are Dave and Lois Kramer of Earling and Steve and Dee Dee Leinen of Panama. Longtime HCS Booster Club members, the Kramers and Leinens were both honored as the newest Hall of Fame members during a girl-boy...
DES MOINES -- Six Harlan Community youth wrestlers competed at the 2017 AAU State Tournament held February 25-26 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. None of the Cyclone wrestlers placed at the state meet. Results are as follows. 3rd-4th grade division: Jesse Jens (DNP, 0-2 at 65 pounds); Spencer...
ATLANTIC -- It wasn’t that AHSTW played poorly and lost in Saturday’s Class 2-A, Substate 7 final. On this night, the Vikings simply got beat by a great basketball team performing at the top of its game. An outstanding dream season ended one step short of the ultimate goal for the Viking boys as...
DES MOINES -- Making its third consecutive trip to the Girls State Basketball Tournament, Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton played in one of four Class 1-A state quarterfinal games Monday at Wells Fargo Arena. The third-rated Spartans (23-1) took on No. 8 Sidney (23-1) on Monday afternoon at 3:15. The...
MANNING -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton’s effective inside game was no match for Ar-We-Va’s onslaught of three-pointers Thursday night as the sixth-ranked Rockets stayed unbeaten with a 61-41, Class 1-A district final win over the Spartans in Manning. Sophomore Drew Schurke knocked down six of Ar-We-...
MAPLETON -- To say that the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton girls basketball team regrouped at halftime Monday night would be an understatement. The third-rated Spartans trailed Akron-Westfield 33-20 during the intermission of their Class 1-A, Region 1 final in Mapleton, bearing little resemblance to...
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