AVOCA -- AHSTW placed second in Pool A and reached the championship bracket in last Saturday’s first annual Lady Vike Volleyball Classic, finishing with a match record of 2-2 that leaves them just one win shy of last year’s season total. Clarinda won the brand new tournament with wins over Denison...
GUTHRIE CENTER -- Four area runners secured top-15 finishes at the ACGC Charger Cross Country Invitational on Thursday, August 25, at Guthrie Center. Emily Copic of Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton placed seventh in the girls varsity race with a time of 22:49 while AHSTW’s Jaycie Schueman (23:17) and...
COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Two big takeaways emerged from Friday night’s Week One football game between Harlan Community and Lewis Central. A) The Titans are a very good team and likely a force to be reckoned with in the Class 4-A playoffs later this fall. B) The Cyclones have a lot of work to do before...
HARLAN -- Following six matches, 15 sets and nine and a half hours of volleyball on Saturday, Harlan Community emerged as the winner of the Silver Pool and essentially placed fourth in the season-opening Cyclone Invitational. HCHS finished with a 4-2 match record and went 10-5 in set play, coming...
GLENWOOD -- Harlan Community claimed a pair of top-six individual finishes by Greichaly Kaster and Reagan Hansen, but both Cyclone squads finished sixth out of nine teams overall at Saturday’s season-opening Glenwood Invitational Cross Country Meet. Kaster, a sophomore, placed third for the HCHS...
MANNING -- Jared Johnson’s 57-yard touchdown pass to Nick Halbur broke a fourth-quarter tie and proved to be the game-winning score Friday night as IKM-Manning opened the football season with a 20-14 non-district win over East Sac County. It was the second straight year that the Wolves and Raiders...
EXIRA -- A second-half rally came up one touchdown short for Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton Friday night as the Spartans lost to Audubon 38-32 in the season opener for both teams. The Wheelers, who were playing their first-ever 8-Man game, got an outstanding performance from quarterback Tyler Riebhoff...
EXIRA -- Going into Friday night’s season opener vs. Audubon, Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton head coach Tom Petersen said of his football team, “Just a long way to go ... kind of a work in progress.” But it’s hard to ignore the talent and potential of this year’s Spartans, who begin 2016 ranked sixth...
COUNCIL BLUFFS -- When Harlan Community kicks off the 2016 football season at Lewis Central Friday night, Curt Bladt will begin his 39th year as head coach of the Cyclones and his 49th year with the program. For Coach Bladt, there’s still something special about that first Friday of the fall. “It’s...
HARLAN -- The Harlan Community volleyball team will look to defend its four-year run of titles when it hosts the Cyclone Tournament here Saturday, starting at 8:30 a.m. HCHS, which is listed sixth in the Class 4-A preseason rankings by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, finished 37-6 last...