AVOCA (Nov. 2) -- No comebacks or overtimes necessary this time around. The AHSTW football team never trailed during Friday night’s Class A quarterfinal playoff game with Newman Catholic, using big plays on offense and four interceptions defensively to beat the Knights 31-14 and earn its first...
EXIRA (Nov. 2) -- Avenging a season-opening loss on the same field in August, fifth-ranked Fremont-Mills jumped on top early and defeated No. 7 Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton 61-20 in an Eight-Player football quarterfinal playoff game here last Friday night. The Knights (10-1) will face New London (10-...
COUNCIL BLUFFS (Nov. 2) -- It’s a tall task that awaits the Harlan Community football team Friday night, but also an enviable one. Forty-six Class 3A squads watching from the outside of the playoffs this week would love to still be playing. “Absolutely,” said HCHS head coach Curt Bladt, who is...
OSKALOOSA (Oct. 26) -- Harlan Community quarterback Preston Mulligan is known much more for his throwing arm than his ability to run the football, but on Friday it was Mulligan’s “wheels” providing a big highlight during the Cyclones’ Class 3A first round playoff game at Oskaloosa. Calling his own...
AVOCA (Oct. 26) -- In the same round of the playoffs two years ago, AHSTW lost a 21-14 overtime heartbreaker at Van Meter - stopped on fourth-and-goal from the 2-yard line to end the game. For several of those same Viking players, redemption was earned last Friday night in Avoca. Trailing 14-0 at...
EXIRA (Oct. 26) -- The Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton football team started and finished the first half in strong fashion last Friday night, taking a commanding 44-8 lead to the locker room en route to a 51-14 win over Stanton in an Eight-Player first round playoff game. The 7th-ranked Spartans...
FORT DODGE (Oct. 27) -- Harlan Community senior Greichaly Kaster read in a newspaper story last week that Coach Doug Renkly believed she could place in the high 20s or low 30s of her fourth and final state meet. They were words that Kaster took directly to heart. Cutting 30 seconds off last year’s...
FORT DODGE (Oct. 27) -- AHSTW sophomores Julia Kock and Chloe Falkena both finished in the top one-third of the Class 1A girls field on Saturday afternoon, placing 32nd and 39th, respectively, in the State Cross Country Championships at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course. Kock finished the five-...
HARLAN -- Prior to Harlan Community’s final home football game October 12, the entire Cyclone varsity squad walked through the Elm Crest Senior Living building to greet residents of nursing and assisted living. The Cyclones went on to defeat Creston 48-0 later that evening.
OSKALOOSA (Oct. 26) -- When the Harlan Community football team travels 163 miles to face Oskaloosa in Friday’s Class 3A playoff opener, it will meet an opponent with strikingly-similar offensive credentials. The 7th-ranked Indians (8-1) have totaled the sixth-most yards in 3A with 3,446 and scored...