TRURO (Jan. 23) -- Denver Pauley won a championship at 170 pounds last Saturday to highlight AHSTW’s ninth-place showing at the Rich Gray Wrestling Invitational hosted by Interstate 35. Four Viking place-winners combined to score 80 points in the meet, placing them ninth out of 17 schools. Pauley (25-6) led the way with an impressive 4-0 day at 170.

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 AREA -- Boys basketball district assignments for Class 2A and 1A were released last Friday by the Iowa High School Athletic Association. AHSTW, ranked second in the latest 2A rankings by the Associated Press, will be part of a 12-team Substate 8. IKM-Manning and Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton will be bracketed in separate districts of Class 1A, Substate 8. Postseason competition will begin with Class 1A preliminary round games on Friday, Feb.

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 CARROLL (Jan. 21) -- Eight Harlan Community wrestlers went 3-0 on the night as the Cyclones swept Thursday’s quad at Kuemper Catholic. HCHS picked up Hawkeye Ten wins over Kuemper (60-10) and Red Oak (60-18) while also beating AHSTW (63-12), improving to 14-6 overall and 6-2 in the conference. AHSTW, which had just six wrestlers competing, finished 0-3 in the meet and is now 11-4 in duals.

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 MANNING (Jan. 22) -- AHSTW boys basketball coach G.G. Harris fully expected a tough ball game when his third-ranked (2A) Vikings ventured to IKM-Manning Friday night. What he got was all that and more. Not known for their outside shooting prowess, the Wolves drilled five early threes in taking a 17-4 lead.

 IOWA CITY (Jan. 22-23) -- AHSTW’s Bella Canada earned a fourth-place state medal at 195 pounds over the weekend at the 2021 IWCOA Girls State Wrestling Tournament in Iowa City. Canada went 4-2 during competition Friday and Saturday, earning 20 points for AHSTW and placing fourth out of 19 wrestlers in her bracket. Her only two losses came against Ankeny Centennial’s Grace Gray.

 ATCHISON, KAN. -- Following 16 highly-successful years as part of the powerhouse football program at Northwest Missouri State University, Harlan native Joel Osborn has found a new home. On Tuesday, Osborn was introduced as the new head football coach at Benedictine College, an NAIA Division I school located just off the Missouri River in Atchison, Kansas. Osborn was hired on Thursday, Jan.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (Jan. 19) -- For the second straight year, Harlan Community sophomores Kaiden Milliken and Reilly McMurphy are competing for the Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln boys swim team, also known as the CB Swim Team. The Lynx, who have just six swimmers on the roster, were defeated by a deep and talented Sioux City Spartans team 122-42 on Tuesday.

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 CHURDAN (Jan. 19) -- The Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton girls basketball team improved to 14-0 overall and 10-0 in the Rolling Valley Conference Tuesday night with a 64-47 win at Paton-Churdan. The sixth-ranked Spartan girls trailed 20-13 after the first quarter before outscoring the host Rockets 21-4 in the second.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (Jan. 18) -- The AHSTW girls basketball team picked up a solid non-conference road win Monday night, surging ahead in the third quarter and holding off St.

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