ELK HORN (Feb.

 ELK HORN (Feb.

 AVOCA -- The AHSTW girls basketball team will host Tri-Center in a Class 2A, Region 8 first round game Saturday (Feb. 9) at 7:00 p.m. The Lady Vikes (14-6) beat the Trojans twice during the regular season in a pair of competitive games. Saturday’s winner will play at Sidney Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.

 DUNLAP (Feb. 5) -- The IKM-Manning girls improved to 16-4 Tuesday night with a 64-36 non-conference win at Boyer Valley. The Wolves drained eight 3-pointers in the game, including six by Alexa Ahrenholtz in 12 attempts. Ahrenholtz led the team with 21 points, Gabby Cadwell had 13 points, eight rebounds and eight steals and Lexi Branning totaled 10 points, seven boards and four assists.IKM-M 83, MVAOCOU 45 MANNING (Feb.

 HARLAN (Feb. 5) -- Continuing a busy final stretch to the regular season - six games in nine days - the Harlan Community girls basketball team lost three in a row vs. Glenwood, Sioux City East and St. Albert since last Friday, falling to 4-15 overall and 2-8 in the Hawkeye Ten. HCHS hosted Atlantic on Thursday and will close out the regular season Friday night at 10th-ranked (4A) Lewis Central.

 AVOCA (Feb. 1) -- Making his first career start on Senior Night, AHSTW’s Matt Sauvain hit 3-of-4 three-pointers and scored a team-high 13 points last Friday as the Vikings defeated Riverside 61-46. Sauvain and fellow senior Matthew Herrera (7 points) were both inserted into the starting lineup and totaled 20 points on 7-of-9 shooting after combining for just four points all season in limited playing time.

 AVOCA (Feb.

    NEW YORK, NY -- Anthony Lee Haney, 37, died at his home in New York City, on February 4.      He is survived by his mother, Sandra Haney of Harlan, father, Stewart (Tony) Haney of Irwin, sister, Amanda Haney of Louisville, KY, grandmother Lois Haney of Apache Junction, AZ, uncle Steven Haney of Apache Junction, cousins Carol Oltman, Anna Wohnoutka, and Mary Doten of Minneapolis, MN, and his faithful companion cat, Twenty-one.

    WESTPHALIA -- Jane Clara Goetzinger, 73, Westphalia, died February 7 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services were held Monday, Feb. 11 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Westphalia with burial in the St.