Sports

 AVOCA (June 16) -- The AHSTW baseball team followed up Monday’s season-opening 9-3 loss at Tri-Center with a 14-4 home win vs. Riverside Tuesday night for a 1-1 start in Western Iowa Conference play. The Vikings built a 9-0 lead after three innings against the Bulldogs and tacked on three runs in...
 Brett Heese pitches in relief for Peak Performance.
 PANAMA (June 12) -- It was a perfect night for some 13U baseball action in Panama Friday night as the Peak Performance Prospects took on the Underwood Venom. The Peak Performance squad features five future Harlan Community players in Bryce Van Baale, Brett Heese, Jozef Reisz, Landen Kaufman and...
 HARLAN (June 15) -- As Iowa high school baseball and softball teams begin playing games this week, so too are the youth squads of the Harlan Little League program at JJ Jensen Park. Although boys and girls T-Ball has been cancelled for 2020, the remaining four divisions of Harlan Little League...
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 HARLAN -- Several members of the Harlan Community High School softball team volunteered their time to help coach a group of little league softball girls on Friday night (June 12) at JJ Jensen Park. Following their own practice, the Cyclone varsity players instructed the Harlan C team (grades 3-4)...
Macy Emgarten (so.)
First Team All-RVC in 2019
 KIMBALLTON -- Andrea Nulle begins her first year as a head softball coach with plenty of familiar faces at Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton. The Spartans did not have a single senior on last year’s 13-15 squad, which tied for second place (9-5) in the Rolling Valley Conference and advanced to the Class...
 Exira-EHK’s Tyler Petersen makes a throw across the diamond during conference play last season.
 ELK HORN -- The Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton baseball team will feature some new faces in 2020 as just four full-time starters return from last year’s 10-12 campaign. The Spartans, who placed sixth in the Rolling Valley Conference at 4-9, graduated five seniors off the 2019 squad, including a trio of...
Paige Osweiler (sr.)
Second Team All-WIC in 2019
 AVOCA -- Deep, versatile and competitive. That is the type of team AHSTW softball coach G.G. Harris envisions as the Lady Vikes prepare for this year’s three-and-a-half week sprint to the postseason. AHSTW finished 12-11 overall in 2019 and went 9-6 (fourth place) in the Western Iowa Conference....
Sam Porter (sr.)
First Team All-WIC in 2019
 AVOCA -- A veteran cast of eight seniors has AHSTW poised for a fun 2020 season on the baseball diamond. The Vikings return seven letter winners - six seniors, one junior - from last year’s 12-12 campaign, and nearly all seven will be playing at least their third season of varsity ball. AHSTW will...
 HARLAN -- While all swim meets have tentatively been cancelled for 2020, the Harlan Summer Swim Team will hold a practice season starting Monday, June 15, at the Norman D. Stamp Aquatic Center. A total of 83 youth swimmers have signed up for the season, which runs through Friday, July 17. On May...
Lexi Branning (sr.)
First Team All-WIC in 2019; Honorable Mention All-State
 IRWIN -- With preseason softball practices limited to two weeks this year due to COVID-19 and the season starting three weeks later than scheduled, some have speculated that the players will be less prepared than normal for the first game. IKM-Manning head coach Joy Gross disagrees. Since spring...

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