RED OAK -- Playing without their number one golfer in the lineup, the Harlan Community girls scored a 433 and placed eighth in Monday’s Hawkeye Ten Conference Tournament at the Red Oak Country Club. Senior Kristen Ferry led the Cyclones with a round of 98 (52-46) on Red Oak’s hilly 18-hole course, junior Ellen Keast shot a 110 and freshmen Kayla Powers and Haley Manz added rounds of 112 and 113, respectively. HCHS did not have the services of

 HARLAN -- Harlan Community senior Caleb Rasmussen signed a national letter of intent on April 14 to join the men’s basketball program at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City. Caleb is the son of Randy and Carmen Rasmussen, Jacksonville, and plans on majoring in business. Rasmussen is a 10-time letter winner for the Cyclones with three letters in basketball, three in football, three in track and one in tennis.

 HARLAN -- Allowing just one shot on goal while taking 14 of its own, the Harlan Community boys soccer team blanked Carroll 2-0 on Senior Night at Merrill Field last Thursday (May 4). Levi Culp scored the Cyclones’ first goal with 26:26 left in the first half - assisted by Tanner Fink - and Dylan Eshelman scored off a scramble in the box with 23:39 left in the second half.

 DENISON -- Several of Harlan Community’s top track and field stars shone brightly Thursday night as the Cyclones wrapped up regular season action at the Hawkeye Ten Conference Co-Ed Meet in Denison. HCHS seniors Allison Bruck and Gillian Streit, along with sophomores Greichaly Kaster and Chloe Hansen, all won their signature event as the Cyclone girls scored 102 points and placed third in the final team standings. Junior Nick Foss also had a

 REGIONAL -- Qualifiers for Iowa’s 2017 State Track and Field Championships will be determined Thursday night (May 11) when Co-Ed State Qualifying Meets are held statewide at 4:00 p.m. The area’s four track schools will compete at three different venues. The Harlan Community girls and boys squads will be part of an eight-team Class 3-A meet at Denison.

 HARLAN -- The National High School Athletic Coaches Association has announced the upcoming induction of Harlan Community High School football coach Curt Bladt into the NHSACA National Hall of Fame. This year’s induction ceremony for the Class of 2017 will take place on June 20 at the National High School Athletic Coaches Association’s national convention at the Embassy Suites in East Peoria, Illinois.

 RED OAK -- The Harlan Community boys tennis team rode a wave of momentum into postseason action following Thursday’s 8-1 dual win at Red Oak. Coupled with a 7-2 victory at Clarinda one week earlier, the Cyclones finished regular-season play with an overall record of 7-5 and a Hawkeye Ten mark of 5-4. The Cyclones’ only loss to Red Oak (6-5, 4-5 H-10) came in a tiebreaker at No. 1 singles.

 ATLANTIC -- Posting four scores between 78 and 84, the Harlan Community boys golf team placed fourth out of 14 teams in the Atlantic Trojan Tournament last Tuesday (May 2) at the Atlantic Golf and Country Club. Atlantic won the meet with an outstanding team score of 289, followed by Clarinda (305), Kuemper Catholic (310), HCHS (323) and ADM and Glenwood both at 324. Kevin Campbell paced the Cyclones with a steady round of 78 (40-38) and Troy

 DES MOINES -- The National Football Foundation - Iowa Chapter - announced May 1 that Harlan Community senior Joshua Cheek has been selected as one of 11 winners of the 2017 Scholar-Athlete Award.

 HARLAN -- Sophomore Levi Culp scored his first two varsity goals and junior goalie Keaton Jones snared a diving save with less than two minutes left as Harlan Community topped Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson 3-2 in boys soccer action Tuesday (May 2) at Merrill Field. Trailing 1-0 for much of the first half courtesy of an own goal in the 15th minute, HCHS tied the game before intermission and scored twice in a 92-second span early in the secon

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 TREYNOR -- AHSTW standouts Jaycie Schueman and Gage Clay both claimed two individual gold medals Tuesday night and were part of the school’s five total wins at the Western Iowa Conference Co-Ed Track Meet held in Treynor. The girls and boys teams from IKM-Manning and AHSTW all placed in the lower half of the point standings but were able to combine for six event championships and score 51 times on a perfect night for competition. Schueman’s f

 WOODBINE -- A victory in the 4x800 relay highlighted Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton’s night as the Spartan boys placed third out of 10 teams in Monday’s Rolling Valley Conference Co-Ed Track Championships at Woodbine. Adding on eight other top-three finishes, the Spartans placed 18 times in 17 events overall and scored 81 points to trail only three-time boys champion Boyer Valley (121) and Woodbine (110). The Exira-EHK girls, meanwhile, placed in

 DES MOINES -- University of South Dakota senior Jessica Feldman competed in her seventh and final Drake Relays last weekend, running in a pair of relays for the Coyote women’s track team on the blue oval inside Drake Stadium.

 DES MOINES -- High school champions were crowned in 20 individual events at the 108th annual Drake Relays this past weekend. In nearly every instance, the 2017 flag-winner was already a household name among state track and field followers and ranked at or near the top of the meet’s qualifier list. Except for one. Harlan Community junior Nick Foss pulled off a win that was equal parts unlikely and impressive in the Drake Relays boys long jump