UNDERWOOD -- Nick Pedersen passed for 146 yards and three touchdowns and the Underwood defense held AHSTW to just 73 total yards last Friday night as the fifth-ranked (1-A) Eagles beat the 10th-ranked Vikings, 40-0, to stay undefeated on the year. The game was marred by a season-ending knee injury...
NEWELL -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton did everything but win the game in last Friday’s battle of 8-Player unbeatens at Newell-Fonda. Tied at 35 with the top-ranked and defending state champion Mustangs, the 6th-ranked Spartans were driving for the possible game-winning score when disaster struck...
CRESTON – In 38 years and 443 games as the Harlan Community head football coach, it’s quite possible that Curt Bladt has never had a team accomplish what the 2015 Cyclones did Friday night against Creston/Orient-Macksburg. From a powerful rushing attack to an effective short-passing game to the...
HULL -- Losing only to Western Christian in a pair of tightly-contested matches, the Harlan Community volleyball team placed second with a 4-2 record at Saturday’s Wolfpack Kooima-Kaemingk Classic in Hull. HCHS finished second in Pool A to Western Christian following a 17-21, 19-21 loss in the...
Ethan Knudson's field goal and a Josh Cheek 25-yard interception return make a tight game appear much more wide open. HCHS quarterback Kyle Juhl threw for 270 yards and three touchdowns in Harlan's win over Glenwood.
COUNCIL BLUFFS -- All in all, it was a busy and successful Tuesday night in Council Bluffs for the Harlan Community volleyball team. Playing seven rapid-fire sets within a three-hour window - four of them highly competive - the Cyclones handled their own business first by winning a Hawkeye Ten...
CRESTON -- Barring any upsets elsewhere in District 8, the Harlan Community football team can actually clinch a playoff berth Friday night with a win at Creston/Orient-Macksburg. And considering all the struggles of last year’s 3-6 campaign, that’s a good place to be when it’s only Week 7 on the...
WOODBINE -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton’s Evan Wilson was the overall boys champion and the Spartan girls were conference team champions at Monday’s combined Woodbine Cross Country Invite and Rolling Valley Conference Meet held at the Woodbine Athletic Complex. Area teams IKM-Manning, AHSTW and...
The running of junior tailback Nick Tarney and passing of senior quarterback Kyle Juhl carried Harlan to a 59-21 victory over Creston/O-M Friday night at Panther Field in a matchup of teams that came in tied for third place in Class 3A District 8.
The win pushed the Cyclones to 3-1 in district play...
AVOCA -- Averaging nearly five ace serves per set, the IKM-Manning volleyball team snapped a short two-match slide in Western Iowa Conference play Thursday with a sweep of AHSTW, 25-14, 25-19, 25-20. The Wolves served 90 percent with 14 aces as a team, led by Rylie Muhlbauer’s 15-for-15, three-ace...