HARLAN -- Miranda Beezley scored a hat trick and Emily Casson and Nicole Hilderbrand added two goals apiece last Monday as Council Bluffs St. Albert shut out the Harlan Community girls soccer team 9-0 at Merrill Field. The 8th-ranked (1-A) Saintes (9-2) scored six goals in the first 28 minutes of play and added three goals in the second half. HCHS lost its eighth straight game to fall to 1-8.

 CARROLL -- Going into a seven-day break without a game, the Harlan Community boys put together 80 minutes of quality soccer Thursday night in a 4-0 non-conference road win over Carroll. HCHS outshot the Tigers 33-9 overall and 24-6 on goal while totaling 11 corner kick opportunities.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Trailing 4-1 with 27:19 left in the match, Harlan Community mounted a late comeback that fell one goal short in a 4-3 boys soccer loss at Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson last Tuesday. HCHS narrowed the gap by scoring twice off Ethan Knudson corner kicks in a span of 66 seconds - first on a header goal by Drayke Eshelman and then on a TJ own goal with 15:13 remaining. The Cyclones were unable to force a tie down the stretch,

 MONDAMIN -- Posting similar point totals while combining for three gold medals and two school records along the way, the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton boys placed third and the girls took fourth at Monday’s Rolling Valley Conference Co-Ed Track Meet in Mondamin. Spartan junior Emily Copic was one of six competitors to win at least two individual events on the night as she cruised to victory in the 3,000 and later improved her own school record in

 NEOLA -- Sophomores Payton Sporrer of IKM-Manning and Gage Clay of AHSTW both won their two feature events at Tuesday’s Western Iowa Conference Co-Ed Track Meet, joining Logan-Magnolia’s Kylan Straight and Underwood’s Emma Bonnet as this year’s only WIC athletes to earn multiple individual golds on the Tri-Center track. Sporrer dominated the girls 3,000-meter run and later the 1,500, posting winning times of 11:42.49 and 5:16.54, respectively

 ATLANTIC -- Max Langenfeld’s sixth-place medalist round of 75 kept Harlan Community in the hunt, but the Cyclones ended up finishing in the middle of the team pack at Tuesday’s Atlantic Boys Invitational at Nishna Hills Golf Course. Atlantic won the 13-team tourney with a score of 304 and Kuemper Catholic was second with a 309.

 ATLANTIC -- Paige Powers and Amber Gross finished among the top 10 individual medalists Tuesday, leading a shorthanded Harlan Community girls golf team to fifth place out of 11 full squads at the Betty Heflin Invitational. Powers placed seventh with a score of 93 and Gross finished 10th with a 96 at the Atlantic Golf and Country Club, playing consistent golf over 18 holes.

 ATLANTIC -- In a final tune-up for Thursday’s Hawkeye Ten Conference Meet, the Harlan Community boys and girls track teams placed in the top five of Monday’s Atlantic Trojan Co-Ed Relays. Both Cyclone squads placed 15 times overall, with the boys winning four events and adding four second-place efforts to finish fourth out of 10 teams with 91 points.

 DES MOINES -- A week before the Drake Relays, Harlan Community’s Marcus Klein had never before surpassed 21 feet in the long jump.

 DES MOINES -- Jessica Feldman, a 2013 Harlan Community graduate, competed in two events for the University of South Dakota women’s track team at the Drake Relays. Feldman ran a leg of the Coyotes’ seventh-place 4x1600 relay team on Thursday (above) and also led off USD’s distance medley relay on Saturday. Feldman is a junior for South Dakota, which competes at the NCAA Division I level. (Photo by Mike Oeffner)

 RED OAK -- Harlan Community finished 10th with a limited varsity squad and placed second in the JV standings at Friday’s Red Oak Tiger Relays. With several of their top athletes competing at the Drake Relays, the Cyclones placed in just four varsity events and scored 16 points. They were also limited by the fact that two of their top-scoring events - the shot put and discus, along with the long jump - were cancelled due to wet grounds. 

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community boys soccer team started the season by winning its first four games by margins of 1-0 or 2-1. As the calendar moves into May, however, those low-scoring games are no longer going the Cyclones’ way as they suddenly find themselves barely above the .500 mark. On Friday night at Merrill Field, HCHS suffered its third consecutive one-goal defeat in Hawkeye Ten Conference play, losing to Atlantic 1-0 in an evenly-mat

Boys Tennis Dual • April 25 • at HarlanHCHS 8, Atlantic 1Varsity Singles Results No. 1: Isaac Stitz (H) won 10-3 over Grant Podhajsky; No. 2: Alec Plagman (H) lost 4-10 to Cooper McDermott; No. 3: Michael Rueschenberg (H) won 10-3 over Caleb Williams; No. 4: Nolan Heese (H) won 10-5 over Luke Hohenberger; No. 5: Josh Cheek (H) won 10-4 over William Weppler; No. 6: Kaleb Kaster (H) won 10-1 over Josh McLean.Varsity Doubles Results No.

GUTHRIE CENTER -- The IKM-Manning and Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton track teams combined to win seven events and place 72 times in Thursday night’s Gonzales/Parrish Co-Ed Invitational at Guthrie Center. Panorama won the girls team title with 147 points, followed by Guthrie Center (141) and IKM-Manning (114).

 ATLANTIC -- Following 99 minutes of soccer and a rally from three goals down, the Harlan Community girls were still unable to break the shackles of a long losing streak Friday night in Atlantic. Erasing a 3-0 first-half deficit, the Cyclones tied the match in the 69th minute of regulation but were unable to score during two sudden-death overtime periods.