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Senior Mitchell Leinen led the HCHS boys with a two-game series of 393 against Denison.
 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community bowling teams were both defeated by Denison-Schleswig on Thursday at Cyclone Lanes. Denison won the girls dual by 388 pins (2,324 to 1,936) and edged the Cyclone boys by just 27 pins (2,666 to 2,639). In the boys half of the meet, HCHS led by 26 pins following the...
 CLARINDA -- Harlan Community picked up two Hawkeye Ten Conference wrestling wins Thursday night, defeating Shenandoah 37-27 before rallying past Clarinda 46-31. Shenandoah also beat the host Cardinals, 39-35. HCHS improved its dual record to 3-1 - both overall and in the conference - as six...
Cyclone senior Allison Bruck (13) is fouled on a breakaway attempt by Creston’s Breanna Wallace. Bruck scored a career-high 29 points as HCHS evened its record at 2-2. (Photos by Mike Oeffner)
 CRESTON -- All three starting guards executed their roles to perfection Tuesday night as Harlan Community rolled to 58-43 girls basketball win at Creston. Senior Bailey Hansen, with an assist from younger sister Chloe at times, took on the responsibility of playing lock-down defense on Creston’s...
HCHS senior Jacob Croghan grabs one of his six rebounds at Creston Tuesday night. (Photo by Mike Oeffner)
 CRESTON – For a minute, the Harlan Community boys basketball team was again on the verge of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat on Tuesday night at Creston. Panther sophomore Kylan Smallwood had other ideas. Smallwood’s step-back three-pointer from the top of the key – his first long-range...
 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Lucas Schmitz provided the highlight with a school record game score of 276 on Tuesday as the Harlan Community boys bowling team improved to 2-0 with a 213-pin victory over Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, 2,745 to 2,532, at Thunderbowl. The HCHS girls (1-1) also secured a win,...
Exira-EHK’s Leslie Caniglia looks to drive on Coon Rapids-Bayard’s Jacey Hoffman (25).
 ELK HORN -- Dominating both early and late, the 3rd-ranked (1-A) Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton girls basketball team cruised to 7-0 here Tuesday night with a 73-31 win over Coon Rapids-Bayard. The Spartans raced out to a 21-3 lead after one quarter and outscored the Crusaders 19-0 in the fourth. The...
Cole Madsen of Exira-EHK (22) tries to steal the ball from Coon Rapids-Bayard senior Brandon Riley on Tuesday. (Photo by Kim Wegener)
 ELK HORN -- The Coon Rapids-Bayard boys handed Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton its first loss of the basketball season Tuesday night, winning a tightly-contested Rolling Valley Conference game, 61-54. Final statistics were nearly even across the board as both teams shot 53 percent from the field and 63...
AHSTW 145-pounder Joel Becerra lifts up Southwest Iowa’s Cory Myers during their match Tuesday night. Becerra, ranked ninth in Class 1-A by The Predicament, pinned Myers in the second period.
 AVOCA -- Nine AHSTW wrestlers picked up two wins on the night as the Vikings swept a home double dual vs. St. Albert and Southwest Iowa (Sidney) on Tuesday. AHSTW (4-4 overall) beat the Falcons 54-9 before handling the Cowboys 54-30. Southwest Iowa secured second place with a 57-18 win over St....
Front row, L-R: B. Hedstrom, R. Noeth, L. Carter, B. Trevino, C. Hunk, O. Olmos, A. Knowles, N. Henry. Middle row, L-R: Asst. Coach D. Schwenke, J. Wingert, T. Eaves, J. Arkfeld, A. Andersen, W. Obrecht, M. Miller, E. Lemon, F. Knowles, C. Nelson, C. Bendorf. Back row, L-R: Head Coach Murtaugh, B. Trevino, N. Foss, J. Owens, A. Johannsen, D. Soll, J. Erlbacher, D. Weyer, C. Brouse, D. Chapman, S. Bedingfield, Asst. Coach J. Bevins. Not pictured: N. Culp, J. Devine, T. Frederick.
 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community wrestling team hit the ground running at the start of the 2016-2017 season, competing in two tournaments and hosting a double dual within an eight-day stretch of early December. So far, the results have been positive. Compared to a year ago, HCHS increased its point...
HCHS junior Lexie Holloway defends Denison-Schleswig’s Alex Mohr (24) as Maggie Langenfeld looks on during Friday night’s 60-55 Cyclone victory.
 HARLAN -- With each shot that found the bottom of the net Friday night, the Harlan Community girls basketball team gained confidence and started to have some fun. Opening the season with back-to-back lopsided defeats at the hands of state-ranked Treynor and Shenandoah had been rough on the...

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