FORT DODGE (Oct. 27) -- The Harlan Community girls cross country team has already accomplished two major goals for 2018 by winning a Hawkeye Ten Conference championship as well as last week’s Class 3A State Qualifying Meet title at Glenwood. But there’s still some unfinished business left as the...
TREYNOR (Oct. 22) -- The season didn’t end quite how they wanted it to, but, oh, what a season it was for the AHSTW volleyball team. Just two years after losing 26 matches, the Lady Vikes finished 2018 with a school record 26 wins following Monday’s three-set loss to 8th-ranked Treynor (19-25, 11-...
GLENWOOD (Oct. 18) -- For the first time in three years, Harlan Community cross country coach Doug Renkly will be taking a full squad of runners to the state meet in Fort Dodge. And they won’t be alone. Fully living up to expectations on a warm afternoon at Glenwood Lake Park, the HCHS girls...
GUTHRIE CENTER (Oct. 18) -- AHSTW sophomores Chloe Falkena and Julia Kock will compete in the state cross country meet for the second straight year following their performances at the Class 1A State Qualifying Meet in Guthrie Center October 18. Falkena placed eighth out of 127 runners with a five-...
WINTERSET (Oct. 19) -- It wasn’t their best performance of the season, but the Harlan Community football team took care of the business at hand Friday night with a playoffs-clinching 28-0 road win over Winterset. Overcoming nine penalties and some chippy play in the trenches, the Cyclones were...
COON RAPIDS (Oct. 19) -- Cole Burmeister’s six touchdowns and 385 yards from scrimmage led the way Friday night as the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton football team wrapped up an Eight-Player, District 8 title with a 54-21 victory at Coon Rapids-Bayard. The 8th-ranked Spartans finished the regular...
AVOCA (Oct. 19) -- A valiant second-half comeback lifted AHSTW past St. Albert 19-14 Friday night as the Viking football team capped an unbeaten regular season and claimed the Class A, District 9 championship over the Falcons. Down 14-0 at the half, AHSTW rallied behind three second-half...
HOLSTEIN (Oct. 19) -- The IKM-Manning football team fell five points short of qualifying for the Class A playoffs last Friday following a 24-19 loss at Ridge View. A victory would have forced a three-way tie for first place in Class A, District 2 with Alta-Aurelia and Sioux Central, locking all...
GLENWOOD (Oct. 17) -- Harlan Community volleyball coach Willie Baughman has often compared the Cyclones’ 2018 season to a roller coaster ride full of ups and downs and twists and turns - sometimes all during the same match. Wednesday night’s Class 4A first-round regional at Glenwood may have been...
WINTERSET (Oct. 19) -- Is it as simple as win and you’re in? For the Harlan Community football team, the answer to that question appears to be: probably. The Cyclones close out the regular season Friday night (7:00 p.m.) at Winterset hoping that one more victory nets the program’s 37th playoff...