AVOCA -- Facing last year’s district champion on Homecoming night wasn’t ideal, admits AHSTW head football coach Davis Pattee. Distractions aside, however, the Vikings took advantage of an opportunity in front of them Friday night, avenging last season’s only district loss with an impressive 34-21 win over IKM-Manning. Senior quarterback Nathan Herbst ran for nearly 250 yards and four touchdowns and added a scoring pass for good measure as AH

 TREYNOR -- Adjusting to some mid-season lineup changes, the IKM-Manning volleyball team ran into an opponent Thursday night that appears to be rounding into late-season form. And despite rallying to make things close in game one, the Wolves couldn’t match the overall firepower of Treynor in suffering their first conference loss of the season, 19-25, 14-25, 13-25. Treynor’s balanced hitting attack compiled a team kill efficiency of .382 while

 HARLAN -- Perhaps it was fitting that Harlan Community senior Taylor Frederick saved one of her nastiest kills for match point Tuesday night. As a team, the Cyclones played some of their best volleyball at the end of each set to sweep Lewis Central, 25-21, 25-21, 25-23, in a Hawkeye Ten matchup of top-five ranked teams in Class 4-A. Frederick’s 18th and final kill capped a match-ending 9-3 rally for HCHS, which also used key mini runs to fini

 MANNING -- The IKM-Manning football team’s 49-8 rout of West Monona/Whiting last Friday marked a significant career milestone for head coach Tom Casey. Improving his record to 200-103 over 31 seasons, Coach Casey became the 50th coach in Iowa prep football history to join the 200-win club.

HARLAN -- Longtime Harlan Community assistant football coach and girls track coach Bill Hosack was recognized with a plaque prior to last week’s Cyclone football game for his outstanding career and positive legacy at the school. Hosack served on the HCHS football coaching staff for 38 years (1977 to 2014) and was part of the program’s 11 state championships earned during that time.

 HARLAN -- With 22.5 seconds remaining, there was likely just one thing that would have prevented Friday night’s Harlan Community vs.

 HARLAN -- All good winning streaks - no matter how dominant - will eventually come to an end. Such was the case for the Harlan Community volleyball team here Tuesday night as the Kuemper Catholic Knights snapped the Cyclones’ string of 28 straight Hawkeye Ten match victories with an impressive 3-1 decision. Following a lopsided opening set in which HCHS looked completely out of sync, the Knights survived hard-fought battles in two of the next

 HARLAN -- During an impressive 3-0 start to the season, Harlan Community has already exorcised some painful memories from a downtrodden 2014 campaign. Losses of 42-7 to Carroll and 24-7 to Lewis Central last year have been replaced by road wins of 36-0 and 38-21, respectively, the past two weekends.