URBANDALE (May 29) -- The AHSTW girls soccer team was able to muster just three shots on goal (four total shots) in a season-ending 4-0 loss at Des Moines Christian Tuesday in a Class 1A regional quarterfinal. The 15th-ranked Lions (14-2) advanced to face Harlan Community in a Region 3 semifinal Friday night while the Lady Vikes finished the season at 7-8 overall. Angela Kinzie scored a three-goal hat trick for Des Moines Christian and Megan

 HARLAN (May 30) -- Harlan Community softball coach Brooke Schaben is confident that at some point this season her young team will get past all the growing pains and learn to win the close ones against tough competition. Wednesday night marked another step in that process as the Cyclones battled hard but came up short in a 5-3 loss to ninth-ranked (4A) Sergeant Bluff-Luton at H.

 HARLAN (May 30) -- Nick Foss homered, doubled, drove in four runs and scored four times Wednesday as Harlan Community topped Shenandoah 10-4 in Hawkeye Ten baseball action. HCHS improved to 3-2 overall and 2-0 in conference play. A varsity doubleheader was scheduled but the second game was not played as Shenandoah came to town expecting to play one JV and one varsity game.

Sioux City North 2, HCHS 0 SIOUX CITY (May 24) -- Trenton Frerichs pitched a three-hitter with eight strikeouts and Aaron Eybers hit a solo home run as Sioux City North shut out Harlan Community 2-0 in its season opener. HCHS (2-1) got doubles from Jared Moser and Connor Bruck and a single by Brett Sears but couldn’t string anything together against Frerichs, who also walked two batters. Riley Kohles (0-1) took the loss, allowing just two hits

 NEWTON -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton’s first-ever trip to the Boys State Golf Tournament resulted in a shiny new object for the school trophy case. Led by top-15 finishes from sophomore twin brothers Everette and Will Carroll, the Spartans scored consistent rounds of 350 and 346 at Newton’s Westwood Golf Course to place third out of nine teams in the Class 1A state meet held May 24-25. Grundy Center improved by 29 strokes on day two and claime

 HARLAN (May 26) -- For the first 30 minutes of Saturday’s scorching substate final at Merrill Field, the Perry boys soccer team dodged one bullet after another fired by Harlan Community. It was only a matter of time, or so it appeared, until the fifth-ranked (Class 2A) Cyclones would break the seal and start scoring goals on the No.

 DES MOINES (May 26) -- Another successful AHSTW boys soccer season came to an end on Saturday afternoon as the Vikings were shut out by ninth-ranked Des Moines Christian, 5-0, in a Class 1A, Substate 7 final. The Vikings were held to just four shots on goal and seven total shots while the Lions finished with 18 and 32, respectively, led by a three-goal hat trick from Blake Witty. Ben Webster (2 assists) and Curran Ingram also scored goals for

 HARLAN (May 25) -- A Kylee Hinz hat trick led the way Friday as the Harlan Community girls soccer team snapped a nine-game losing streak and picked up some momentum for postseason play with a 5-1 home win over Creston. Savannah Parman and Hannah Bissen also scored goals for the Cyclones, who improved to 2-14 overall and finished 2-5 in Hawkeye Ten Conference play - good for sixth place out of eight teams.

 OAKLAND -- Cloey Case scored two goals while Chloe Falkena and Jordyn Holtz added one apiece last Monday (May 21) as the AHSTW girls soccer team capped the regular season with a 4-1 win at Riverside. Holtz, who led the Lady Vikes with eight total shots and five shots on goal, also distributed the team’s only two assists of the game while senior goalie Morgan Eckmann captured 10 saves. AHSTW (7-7 overall) will now travel to Urbandale to face 1

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community softball team opened the season with a 2-1 home stand during the first half of last week, winning close games against Underwood and Kuemper Catholic before losing to Sioux City Heelan in eight innings.HCHS 4, Underwood 2 Trailing 2-1 after five and a half innings, the Cyclones put together a three-run rally in the bottom of the sixth to beat the Eagles 4-2 in the May 21 season opener. Morgan Schaben pitched a th

 LE MARS -- Harlan Community senior golfer Ellen Keast saved the best round of her career for the perfect time last Monday (May 21), qualifying for state with a sixth-place round of 93 in the Class 3A Regional Final Tournament held at Le Mars’ Willow Creek Golf Course.

 ATLANTIC -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton sophomore Jacey Anthofer qualified for the Class 1A Girls State Golf Tournament last Monday (May 21) by placing sixth in the regional final meet held at the Atlantic Country Club. Anthofer scored a 92 on the 18-hole course and will now compete at the 1A state meet May 29-30 at Marshalltown’s American Legion Golf Course. Griswold (387) and Woodbury Central (424) were the team state qualifiers from the Atla

 HARLAN (May 23) -- Just one win removed from clinching the second state tournament berth in program history, the Harlan Community boys soccer team is 100 percent focused on a trip to Cownie Park in Des Moines next Thursday. “We just (keep) getting better throughout the season.

 AVOCA (May 23) -- Brayton Tuma scored a hat trick and Kyle Branan and Gabe Madsen added one goal apiece here Wednesday night as AHSTW pulled away in the final 14 minutes to beat Clarke, Osceola 5-0 in a Class 1A, Substate 7 boys soccer semifinal. The 14th-ranked Vikings (14-2) will now face Des Moines Christian (14-1) in Saturday’s substate final at Des Moines. Des Moines Christian has rolled past its first two postseason opponents, beating N

 STUART (May 21) -- The AHSTW boys soccer team built a 3-1 halftime lead and made it stand on Monday, beating Panorama by that same score in a Class 1A substate quarterfinal game at Stuart. Blake Osbahr and Brayton Tuma both scored Viking goals in the first 19 minutes for a 2-0 lead and both sides scored off corner kicks before halftime.