HARLAN -- The Harlan Community football team enters the 2016 season with a veteran-laden offense, a brand new defensive cast and high hopes to build on last year’s 8-2 campaign and return to the playoffs after a rare one-year absence in 2014. Armed with good team speed and adequate size, the...
MANNING -- The goals of the IKM-Manning football team don’t change all that much from year to year, and that’s the mark of a good program. A: Improve each week. B: Make the playoffs. C: Advance as far as possible. Through the first eight years of their consolidation, IKM-Manning been remarkably...
HARLAN -- The weapons are in place. A starting quarterback will be named any day now. With only a few preseason practices left, Harlan Community offensive coordinator Mark Kohorst is excited to unveil this year’s Cyclone ‘O.’ Kohorst’s goal in 2016 is to develop a balanced, diversified and...
HARLAN -- From the first-year coordinator to the player personnel, Harlan Community’s defense has a brand new look in 2016. HCHS graduated its top 13 tacklers from a year ago and the top returnee - Josh Cheek with 16 stops - isn’t even listed on the current defensive two-deep by new coordinator...
HARLAN -- The Harlan Community and IKM-Manning volleyball teams, along with Treynor and Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, prepped for the upcoming season on Tuesday by holding a scrimmage at the HCHS gymnasium. Each team scrimmaged against the other three for approximately 20 minutes. HCHS, last...
OMAHA, NEB. -- The Iowa Western Baseball League season will come to a close on Saturday when the IWL All-Star team faces the Dodge County All-Stars in a 1:00 p.m. game at Omaha’s Brown Field (15th & Q). The IWL roster includes 17 players, with Josh Weis of Persia serving as the head coach and...
PORTSMOUTH -- The National League pulled away in the late innings to defeat the American League, 10-1, in the Iowa Western Baseball League All-Star Game held Wednesday, August 10, in Portsmouth. The NL led 2-1 after five and a half innings before scoring three runs in the sixth and five in the...
HARLAN -- Returning to the program for which she was a four-time all-stater from 2007 to 2011, Brooke Schaben experienced an eventful first season as head coach of the Harlan Community softball team. It was a summer marred by injuries and inconsistency at times, but there were also positives as...
TOPEKA, KAN. -- The Cyclone Pride 13U C Division traveling softball team put together an overall record of 25-11 this season, capped by a ‘Top 8’ finish at the USSSA National Tournament (Midwest Region) in Topeka, Kansas, July 20-23. As they did all season, Cyclone Pride played up an age level at...
HARLAN -- The Harlan Community freshmen baseball team finished the 2016 season with an overall record of 12-13 under the direction of Coach Brian James.