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 HARLAN -- Registration is open until March 24 for the third annual Color Run for the Cure, a 5K run/walk scheduled for Saturday, April 16, at the Harlan Fairgrounds. The Relay for Life team event will start at 10:00 a.m., with check-in opening at 9 o’clock that morning. All proceeds benefit the...
Vollstedt, pictured with Brett Nanninga (Associate Director of the IHSAA). (Photo by Mike Oeffner)
 DES MOINES -- Janell Vollstedt of Manilla was honored prior to IKM-Manning’s Class 1-A quarterfinal at the Boys State Basketball Tournament as the school’s Iowa High School Athletic Association “Fan of the Game.” Vollstedt, pictured with Brett Nanninga (Associate Director of the IHSAA), received a...
Front row, L-R: Jamie Schechinger, Andrea Ferry, Alicia Dominguez, Addison Ferry. Back row, L-R: Coach Jay Schechinger, Samantha Schmitz, Mercedee Mayberry, Jenny Weisenborn, Coach Jill Ferry.  Not pictured: Jessica DuVal. (Photo contributed)
AREA -- St. Boniface of Westphalia won the 2016 CYO Girls Basketball Tournament championship by defeating Panama in the title game on Sunday, February 28. The St. Boniface girls closed the season with a record of 7-2 with both losses against Panama during the regular season.
 AAU STATE QUALIFIERS -- Front, L-R: Jason McClure, Tyrel Jacobsen. Back, L-R: Luke Musich, Jeremiah Davis, Ethan Lemmon.
 DES MOINES -- Five individuals from the Harlan Community Wrestling Club qualified and competed at the 2016 AAU State Tournament held February 27-28 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Sixth-grader Jeremiah Davis was the lone place-winner among the group, placing eighth with a 3-3 record in his...
 STATE HARDWARE -- IKM-Manning players, including Jared Vollstedt (left), Kyle Wagner, Ridge Muhlbauer and Ben Wegner (right) hold up the team’s state participant trophy.
 DES MOINES -- IKM-Manning faced a small margin for error in the opening game of the Boys State Basketball Tournament Monday morning. Allow West Hancock an open three-pointer and it was likely going to make it. Turn the ball over or hesitate ever so slightly getting back on defense and the Eagles...
Greg Lansing
 DES MOINES -- Former Harlanite Greg Lansing will join his father, Dave, in the Iowa High School Athletic Association Basketball Hall of Fame Saturday night at Wells Fargo Arena. Greg will be inducted into the players’ wing of the Hall while Dave was honored as a coach in 1999. They will become the...
Taylor Frederick, HCHS
DES MOINES -- The Iowa Newspaper Association announced its 2016 All-State Girls Basketball teams on Tuesday, naming Harlan Community seniors Taylor Frederick and Jordyn Moser to the Class 4-A first team and citing Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton sophomore Sophia Peppers on the Class 1-A second team. A...
 AHSTW senior Tim Barr (left) wrestles Bodie Garnier of Sumner-Fredericksburg in a state quarterfinal match at 170 pounds. Barr pinned Garnier in 5:06. (Photos by Mike Oeffner)
February 18-20  •  Wells Fargo Arena  •  Des Moines AREA RESULTSAHSTW: 29 points (19th in Class 1-A)138: Jay Heiny, sr. - Class 1-A Qualifier0-2 record at State; 13-6 on the season.160: Dustin Engel, sr. - Class 1-A Place-Winner3-2 record at State (7th Place); 37-6 on the season; No. 7 state...
Christofferson (left) is shown during a 2008 Exira game. (Photo courtesy of Atlantic News-Telegraph)
 DES MOINES -- Former Exira and Iowa State University standout Hallie Christofferson was one of three women inducted into the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday night at Wells Fargo Arena. Due to the demands of playing professional basketball in Greece,...
Schaben (right) is pictured along with the sportsmanship award recipient from Marion. (Photo by Mike Oeffner)
 DES MOINES -- Ron Schaben of Defiance was Harlan Community’s recipient of the Iowa Farm Bureau Sportsmanship Award at the 2016 Girls State Basketball Tournament held last week at Wells Fargo Arena. Schaben (right) is pictured along with the sportsmanship award recipient from Marion. Also...

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