DES MOINES (April 17) -- The Harlan Community boys and girls track teams have both qualified one event for the 2021 Drake Relays in Des Moines. All high school events this year will be held on Thursday, April 22, at Drake Stadium. HCHS sophomore Aidan Hall is one of 32 qualifiers in the boys’ 100-meter dash. Hall will compete at 11:27 a.m. Thursday, running in section one, lane six of timed finals.

 HARLAN -- A former all-state player and recent assistant coach has been hired as Harlan Community High School’s next head baseball coach. Heath Stein, a 2004 HCHS graduate, accepted the job on Friday, April 9, and officially became the head coach following school board approval on Monday, April 12.

 HARLAN (April 13) -- The meet didn’t end on the brightest of notes, but Harlan Community still put forth a strong showing on the home track Tuesday night as part of the annual Cyclone Ken Carstens Boys Invitational. Treynor and Lewis Central paced an 11-team field with five gold medals apiece and also scored the most points as the Cardinals would up winning the team title over the Titans by a slim 133-130 margin. HCHS won three events and fin

 HARLAN (April 12) -- A promising start and a halftime lead still didn’t result in Harlan Community’s first win of the boys soccer season Monday night as Kuemper Catholic rallied past the Cyclones for a 2-1 win at Merrill Field. The Knights scored two goals in the first nine minutes of the second half to erase Harlan’s 1-0 advantage, then held firm defensively the rest of the way to win their season opener. HCHS, meanwhile, slipped to 0-5 over

 HARLAN (April 12) -- As the Harlan Community girls soccer team frantically tried to tie the score vs.

 HARLAN (April 13) -- The Harlan Community boys golf team was defeated by Lewis Central 205-219 at the Harlan Golf and Country Club on Tuesday afternoon.

 HARLAN (April 13) -- Seniors Brock Bruns and Mitchell Rueschenberg combined for all three Cyclone wins as the Harlan Community boys tennis team was defeated by Lewis Central 6-3 Tuesday. HCHS dropped to 0-2 on the season going into its Thursday dual at Audubon and will host Kuemper on Monday afternoon. Bruns trailed early in his number one singles match vs. LC freshman Christian Jensen before taking control the rest of the way to win 10-4.

 ADEL (April 9) -- The Harlan Community boys soccer team was defeated twice at the ADM Tournament Friday night, losing to Des Moines East 5-1 and falling to the host Tigers 3-0. The Cyclones dropped to 0-4 on the season. “We are still trying to find our identity and learn to play together as a team,” stated HCHS head coach Dave Voge. “As the Des Moines East game went on we got better, but have a ways to go.

 MANNING (April 10) -- Led by Kyler Rasmussen’s runner-up medalist round of 78, IKM-Manning placed first in Saturday’s five-team home invitational at the M&M Golf Course. The Wolves won the meet with a team score of 345, followed by Underwood 353, Boyer Valley 371, ACGC 380 and Coon Rapids-Bayard 414. Underwood’s Coby Fink was the tournament medalist with an 18-hole score of 75, shooting rounds of 36 and 39.

 MANNING (April 9) -- Tyler Brandt and Bre Muhlbauer earned medalist honors on Friday as the IKM-Manning golf teams opened the season with home dual wins against Riverside. The IKM-M boys scored a 168 at the M&M Golf Course while the girls scored a 249. Riverside did not have enough players for a team score. Brandt shot a 40 over nine holes to earn boys medalist honors and Kyler Rasmussen was the runner-up medalist with a 42.

 DENISON (April 9) -- The Harlan Community girls and boys track teams combined to win 18 events and score 325 points here Friday night, sweeping the team titles of the Denison-Schleswig Co-Ed Invitational. IKM-Manning also made a strong showing in the seven-team meet, combining for six golds and 158 points as the boys placed third and the girls finished sixth. The HCHS girls were the top-scoring team of the night, earning 12 gold medals and ea

 HARLAN (April 9) -- The Harlan Community girls tennis team opened the season on Friday with a 7-2 dual loss to Denison-Schleswig. HCHS won the junior varsity dual by a count of 8-7. Both Cyclone varsity wins came in singles play as Grace Coenen outlasted Hannah Weber 8-6 in the number four spot and Erica Rust won by the same score in No. 6 singles vs. Evelyn Lopez. Three other HCHS girls lost 6-8 decisions: Liz Devine at No.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (April 6) -- In terms of ball possession, connectivity and shots, Lewis Central was the dominant team in Tuesday’s Hawkeye Ten boys soccer matchup vs.

 SERGEANT BLUFF (April 6) -- The Harlan Community boys track team scored at least once in all 15 running events and finished one point shy of a team title at Tuesday night’s Sergeant Bluff-Luton Warriors Co-Ed Relays. OABCIG, led by Cooper DeJean’s three individual gold medals (four overall), won the boys’ half of the meet with 124 points.

 TREYNOR (April 6) -- Quentin Dreyer swept the mile and two-mile races and anchored IKM-Manning’s distance medley relay to victory as well Tuesday night, leading the Wolves to a third-place team finish in the Jerome Howe Relays at Treynor. The host Cardinals won nine events, including four relays, and easily claimed the meet title over Underwood by a 180-108 margin.