With just four wrestlers in Saturday’s tournament, the HCHS Cyclones girls wrestling team managed to come away with 38 points, 79 points behind the winner, Clarinda, taking a sixth place finish out of nine teams.
“I’m so proud of these girls,” said Cyclone Head Coach Tarah Devlin-Lawler. “We competed with four girls, and we were able to put numbers up on our team score, and they were very supportive of one another.”

After three tough losses, the HCHS Cyclones boys basketball team returned to the win column Friday night against their Hawkeye Ten rival, the Atlantic Trojans, winning 71-52.
“It feels very nice,” said Cyclone Head Coach Mitch Osborn. “You had two teams very hungry for a win. They [Atlantic] lost a couple of very close games, and our last two came down to the last possession.”

In the third quarter of Friday’s home basketball game, the Atlantic Trojans rallied to bring themselves back within three points of the HCHS Cyclones girls basketball team. 
Cyclone Head coach Zach Klaassen called a timeout, and when play resumed, Cyclone Junior Addison Wicks scored the next two shots, followed by another two in the fourth quarter, scoring 11 points on the night, helping lead her team to a 44-32 victory.

Hoping to snap their 5-game losing streak, the Exira-EHK Spartans boys basketball team started off Thursday’s home game strong against the Ar-We-Va Rockets leading at the end of the first quarter and tied at halftime, but the Rockets offense came alive in the second half, handing the Spartans a 69-56 loss.

The Exira-EHK Spartans girls basketball team rolled into a Thursday night showdown with the Ar-We-Va Rockets and dominated them on both ends of the floor to cruise to a 65-27 victory for their second consecutive win.
“We’ve just got to figure out when we attack, that’s when we find our rhythm,” said Spartan Senior Harlee Fahn. “It always starts on defense, and with defense you can just get out and go.”

The struggles continue for the Exira-EHK Spartans boys basketball team as they’ve dropped their fifth consecutive game, most recently losing 78-44 Tuesday night to the Woodbine Tigers.

After dropping their season opener to the Woodbine Tigers 55-39, the Exira-EHK Spartans girls basketball team returned to face the Tigers Tuesday night on the road and won 58-44.
“I think our first game we had against them we didn’t come ready to play,” said Sophomore Taryn Petersen. “I think we came in ready to play better than they did tonight, and I think we had more energy than they did. Energy gets us going.”

The HCHS Cyclones boys basketball team lost a close battle 59-56 to the Glenwood Rams Tuesday night on the road.
“I was very proud of our guys last night,” said Cyclone Head Coach Mitch Osborn. “I thought we went on the road and played pretty well. It was a back-and-forth game, but Glenwood is 10-2 for a reason. They have a great team.”

After a tough loss Friday at home against St. Albert, the HCHS Cyclones girls basketball team returned to action Tuesday, getting a 60-45 road win over the Glenwood Rams.

In the fourth quarter with 4.1 seconds remaining in regulation with the St. Albert Falcons leading by two, the HCHS Cyclones boys basketball team inbounded the ball, got it to Senior Jozef Reisz, who went up for a layup, but couldn’t sink the shot and the Cyclones lost 56-54.

After three straight road wins and riding a 7-game win streak, the HCHS Cyclones girls basketball team returned home Friday night to take on the undefeated St. Albert Saintes losing 60-42 for their third loss of the season.

Thursday night, the HCHS Cyclones split their triangular losing their first match to Atlantic 59-17, but bounced back in their second match against Denison 58-18.
It was also Senior Night as Brody McKinley, Austin Spray, Spencer Fink, Jesse Jens, Manager Olivia Jens, and Cheerleaders Allisyn Ludwick, Dixi Ordonez, and Katherine Schwery were honored.

Despite low numbers for the HCHS Cyclones girls wrestling team, one Cyclone stood out in a big way. Senior Addison Obrecht won three matches during Thursday’s quad that featured Logan-Magnolia, Tri-Center, and Ridge View.

The AHSTW Viking offense came storming out of the gate Tuesday night at home opening the game on a 9-2 run en route to a 66-55 victory over the IKM-Manning Wolves for their second win of the season.
“To be able to put one in the win column was big for us,” said Viking Head Coach G.G. Harris. “We’ve got guys that work really, really hard and are doing a lot of the right things. Tonight we were able to do it enough.”

Tuesday at home, the AHSTW Vikings got locked into a close battle with the IKM-Manning Wolves with the Wolves coming away victorious in the end, 46-45.
“I think we got stops when we needed to get our stops,” said Wolves Freshman Keagan Eischeid. “We all believed in each other, and I think when we needed offense we came out and did well.”