HARLAN -- Sioux City East was in a giving mood at Jim Goeser Field Wednesday night, and Harlan Community took full advantage. Aided by six Black Raider errors in the first two innings, HCHS grabbed an early 7-0 lead and added six runs on six hits in the fourth to post a 13-2 five-inning baseball...
COUNCIL BLUFFS -- The Harlan Community softball team saw its Hawkeye Ten record fall to 5-8 earlier this week following a pair of five-inning conference losses to Denison-Schleswig and Lewis Central. HCHS (8-14 overall) lost a home game vs. the Monarchs, 15-4, on Monday before dropping a 12-2...
NEOLA -- The hits and runs just kept on piling up Tuesday night for the AHSTW softball team. Tied 1-1 after an inning, the Lady Vikes would score three or four runs in each frame the rest of the way, totaling 24 hits in a 21-8 road win over Tri-Center. The Trojans scored seven runs during the...
NEOLA -- In a back-and-forth Western Iowa Conference baseball game Tuesday night, Tri-Center answered every AHSTW challenge to post a 10-7 home win over the Vikings. After AHSTW took a 2-0 lead in the top of the second, T-C scored three runs in the bottom half of the inning. When the Vikings...
OMAHA, NEB. -- Ruby Martin, the great-granddaughter of former Shelby County residents, will swim in the 2016 U.S. Olympic Swim Team Trials held June 26-July 3 at Omaha’s CenturyLink Center. Ruby, a 16-year-old from Coralville, is the daughter of Jeff and Lisa Martin. She is the granddaughter of...
GLENWOOD -- After letting a two-run seventh-inning lead slip away in game one of Thursday’s doubleheader at Glenwood, Harlan Community played much better baseball in the night cap to earn a Hawkeye Ten split with the Rams. Glenwood won the first game, 7-6, on Drake Harrington’s two-out, walk-off...
HARLAN -- Add another name to the short list of Harlan Community baseball players who have hit three home runs in a single game. Derek Schwartz, a 2011 HCHS graduate, hit three home runs at Council Bluffs St. Albert during a July, 2010 game his junior year. Current Cyclone senior Kyle Juhl homered...
GLENWOOD -- Harlan Community split a varsity softball doubleheader at Glenwood on Thursday, winning the first game 2-1 before dropping the night cap 15-8. The game-one victory snapped a three-game slide for the Cyclones, who finished the night at 7-9 overall and 5-6 in the Hawkeye Ten. The Rams...
FORT DODGE -- The Harlan Community softball team placed 14th at the Fort Dodge Invitational over the weekend, finishing 1-3 in games played Friday and Saturday. There were 16 teams in the field. The Cyclones were shut out in back-to-back games Friday, losing to third-ranked (3-A) Solon 12-0 in...
UNDERWOOD -- Abbey Youngren smacked her fifth home run of the year and Peyton Gross pitched a five-hit shutout Friday night as the IKM-Manning softball team completed a season sweep of Underwood, 7-0, for its fourth consecutive win. Youngren’s three-run bomb in the top of the first was all the...