CARROLL -- Harlan Community opened defense of its Class 3-A state baseball title with an 11-run first inning on Monday night (May 22), eventually finishing off a young Carroll team 14-0 in five innings. Connor Bruck went 3-for-3 at the plate for HCHS while Dillon Sears, Brett Sears and Kyle...
HARLAN -- On a wild opening night featuring five lead changes, 25 runs and 24 hits, the Harlan Community softball team struck last to outslug Underwood 13-12 Monday (May 22) at H. Jack Field. Trailing 12-8 after the visiting Eagles plated five runs in the top of the sixth, HCHS responded with a...
HARLAN -- Perhaps it was only fitting that the Harlan Community boys soccer team’s 15th and final win of the season came on home turf. Improving to 9-0 at Merrill Field, the Cyclones handled an outmatched West Central Valley squad 5-1 Monday night (May 22) in the opening round of the Class 2-A,...
ANITA -- The Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton boys golf team finished one spot shy of a state tournament berth last Friday (May 19) after placing third in the Class 1-A District Tournament at Anita’s Crestwood Hills Golf Course. The Spartans tallied a team score of 343 in cool and wet conditions,...
DES MOINES -- In the days leading up to last weekend’s co-ed state track meet, the practice workload lessened for Harlan Community senior Gillian Streit. The hay is in the barn, HCHS girls assistant coach Todd Bladt told his standout thrower. The only thing left to do is go out there and perform...
DES MOINES -- As Gage Clay prepared to win a Class 2-A state championship on Saturday afternoon, AHSTW’s junior sprinter couldn’t help but think about one of his favorite people. Clay’s grandmother, Linda Best, was one of his biggest fans before she passed away in July of 2015. Clay describes Best...
DES MOINES -- Making her third career state track meet appearance on Friday (May 19), AHSTW senior Jaycie Schueman saved the best for last. Starting out of lane one in the third section of the Class 2-A 400-meter hurdles, Schueman gracefully handled the tight inside turns around Drake Stadium’s...
DES MOINES -- Nick Foss and Caleb Bieker combined for three personal bests and one state medal at the State Track and Field Championships last weekend as the Harlan Community boys scored six points to tie for 26th place in Class 3-A. Foss, competing in his first track season since the seventh...
DES MOINES -- Shut out of the state medals for the first time in many years last May, the Harlan Community girls track team responded last weekend with a state champion thrower, a sixth-place hurdler and a top-20 team finish at the 2017 state meet. HCHS senior Gillian Streit set the tone Thursday...
DES MOINES -- The IKM-Manning track teams didn’t take home any medals from the 2017 state meet last weekend, but improvement was made in two out of three events, including one school record broken for the second time in a week. On Thursday afternoon (May 18), the IKM-M girls 4x800 relay team...