OAKLAND -- Cloey Case scored two goals while Chloe Falkena and Jordyn Holtz added one apiece last Monday (May 21) as the AHSTW girls soccer team capped the regular season with a 4-1 win at Riverside. Holtz, who led the Lady Vikes with eight total shots and five shots on goal, also distributed the team’s only two assists of the game while senior goalie Morgan Eckmann captured 10 saves. AHSTW (7-7 overall) will now travel to Urbandale to face 1

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community softball team opened the season with a 2-1 home stand during the first half of last week, winning close games against Underwood and Kuemper Catholic before losing to Sioux City Heelan in eight innings.HCHS 4, Underwood 2 Trailing 2-1 after five and a half innings, the Cyclones put together a three-run rally in the bottom of the sixth to beat the Eagles 4-2 in the May 21 season opener. Morgan Schaben pitched a th

 LE MARS -- Harlan Community senior golfer Ellen Keast saved the best round of her career for the perfect time last Monday (May 21), qualifying for state with a sixth-place round of 93 in the Class 3A Regional Final Tournament held at Le Mars’ Willow Creek Golf Course.

 ATLANTIC -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton sophomore Jacey Anthofer qualified for the Class 1A Girls State Golf Tournament last Monday (May 21) by placing sixth in the regional final meet held at the Atlantic Country Club. Anthofer scored a 92 on the 18-hole course and will now compete at the 1A state meet May 29-30 at Marshalltown’s American Legion Golf Course. Griswold (387) and Woodbury Central (424) were the team state qualifiers from the Atla

    HARLAN – Colonel Justin Wagner was the Officer in Charge of a 53-person Iowa National Guard team and 35-member Military Police active duty Army Team from European Command in a two-week training exercise in Kosovo, geared toward building relationships and improving long-term security in the region.    Wagner, who also serves as superintendent of the Harlan Community Schools, served as the lead evaluator of the Kosovo Security Forces for the

 HARLAN (May 23) -- Just one win removed from clinching the second state tournament berth in program history, the Harlan Community boys soccer team is 100 percent focused on a trip to Cownie Park in Des Moines next Thursday. “We just (keep) getting better throughout the season.

 AVOCA (May 23) -- Brayton Tuma scored a hat trick and Kyle Branan and Gabe Madsen added one goal apiece here Wednesday night as AHSTW pulled away in the final 14 minutes to beat Clarke, Osceola 5-0 in a Class 1A, Substate 7 boys soccer semifinal. The 14th-ranked Vikings (14-2) will now face Des Moines Christian (14-1) in Saturday’s substate final at Des Moines. Des Moines Christian has rolled past its first two postseason opponents, beating N

 STUART (May 21) -- The AHSTW boys soccer team built a 3-1 halftime lead and made it stand on Monday, beating Panorama by that same score in a Class 1A substate quarterfinal game at Stuart. Blake Osbahr and Brayton Tuma both scored Viking goals in the first 19 minutes for a 2-0 lead and both sides scored off corner kicks before halftime.

 HARLAN (May 22) -- Connor Bruck pitched three stellar innings of relief and Harlan Community plated two insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth to hold off the Kuemper Catholic baseball team, 5-2, Tuesday night at Jim Goeser Field. HCHS, ranked second in Class 3A by the Iowa Baseball Coaches Association to start the season, built a 3-0 lead after two innings against Kuemper ace Cole Halbur and overcame an injury to slugging first baseman Ry