Friday night, the HCHS Cyclones baseball team will begin their postseason journey at home against the Atlantic Trojans.
“I think the guys are very anxious,” said Cyclones Head Coach Heath Stein. “We like our draw and we’re going to go in and compete as best we can.”
With Atlantic being a rival school, Stein hopes to see a large crowd in attendance.

Spartan eighth grader Riley Miller was the star of the game pitching seven innings, striking out nine batters, and allowing just two runs in a 4-2 victory over the Audubon Wheelers.
Miller also knocked in two runs at the plate, including one in the bottom of the 3rd inning and one in the bottom of the 5th.

In the top of the 9th inning with no outs, Senior Hawkeye Mason King launched a 3-run home run over the left field fence making it a 6-3 game en route to a 8-3 victory for the Hawkeyes, their 21st of the season.
For King, it was his second home run of the game as he hit one out in the top of the 5th with his team trailing 3-2.

In the bottom of the 2nd inning with one out and her team trailing by one, Junior Viking Graycen Partlow dumped a ball into right field clearing the bases and making it a 3-1 game en route to an eventual 9-2 Vikings victory.
Partlow stepped up again in the bottom of the 3rd inning when she connected at the plate for a two out, 2-run double with the bases loaded, putting her team up 7-1.

In the top of the 4th inning Friday afternoon at Jim Goeser Field, Cyclones head coach Heath Stein removed Braydon Ernst from the game after he loaded the bases with no outs, forcing in the tying run on a walk and then allowing another two runs to score.

Thursday night, the HCHS Cyclone baseball team was hoping to extend its 10-game winning streak against the Clarinda Cardinals on the road, but were unable to do so, dropping game one, 8-5, but bouncing back to win game two, 7-6.

Exira-EHK’s Bella Muller took home a national award Monday night in the snatch category competing against more than 20 other girls and finishing fourth overall in the national weight lifting competition in Colorado Springs.

Cyclone Senior Jenna Gessert likely entered the pitching circle for the final time at H. Jack Field Tuesday night at home against the Sioux City East Black Raiders. Gessert went the distance, only walking two batters in her outing, but the Cyclones lost 24-12.
“Jenna did a great job,” said Cyclones Head Coach Brandi Eckles. “She hit her spots and she wants to go out with a bang, so we’re going to keep going.”

In the bottom of the 1st inning at Jim Goeser Field, Sophomore Cyclone Hayden Soma connected at the plate for a 2-run double off Tigers starter Linkin Weitl, followed by an RBI single by Junior Cyclone Matthew Sorfonden and a sacrifice fly by Weston Reisz that put them up 4-0, and set the tone for the night en route to a 10-2 victory.

The Cyclones continue to stay hot winning both games of a doubleheader Monday night on the road, outscoring the Shenandoah Mustangs 20-0.
In game one, Franz Reisz got the ball for the Cyclones pitching five innings, striking out seven batters and allowing just four hits on 76 pitches.

HCHS Head Track and Field Coach Sam Brummer has won the 3A At Large Coach of the Year award.
“It’s a super good accomplishment,” Brummer said. “It’s a total team award is how I view it, but it’s just as much an attribute to coach [James] Cairney and coach [Steve] Wilwerding and the rest of the team on our success with how the season went. I’m just super honored and humbled to have received the award.”

In the top of the 5th inning, Junior Viking Graycen Partlow managed to reach 3rd base on a fielding error by the IKM-Manning Wolves, allowing Partlow to score on the next play, making it 4-1 Vikings en route to an eventual 5-3 victory.
For the Vikings, it was their second victory in their previous nine games.

After the Atlantic Trojans offense scored four runs in the bottom of the 7th to tie the ballgame, the Cyclones came right back and scored three runs in the top of the 8th, en route to a 15-12 victory and their seventh consecutive victory.

Eighth grader Riley Miller pitched three innings, striking out five batters in Wednesday’s victory over the Glidden-Ralston Wildcats helping lead the Spartans to a 13-1 mercy rule victory.
“She did good,” said Spartans Head Coach Andrea Schwery. “We wanted to challenge their hitters tonight. We saw they had pretty good averages, but she did a good job keeping them off the basepaths.”

In the top of the 7th inning in a scoreless ballgame, Council Bluffs eighth grader Hanna Ferguson connected for an RBI double off of Cyclone Senior Jenna Gessert, putting her team up 1-0 en route to a 2-0 victory.
“She [Gessert] really hit her spots hard,” said Cyclones Head Coach Brandi Eckles. “She was doing a fantastic job and they just ended up getting some hits in the gaps that we didn’t get.”