Sports
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...
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...
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