MANNING (Jan. 16) -- Senior Lexi Branning scored a career-high 31 points in less than 17 minutes of action and junior Alexa Ahrenholtz tallied 21 points and 10 assists here Thursday night as the IKM-Manning girls raced past Riverside 96-29 to sweep the season series. The Wolves led 35-8 after one quarter and 59-19 at the half before outscoring the Bulldogs 25-5 in the third with a running clock.

 MANNING (Jan. 16) -- The IKM-Manning boys basketball team won its fourth straight game since the holiday break on Thursday night, easily defeating Riverside 62-32. The Wolves improved to 6-5 overall and 6-3 inside the Western Iowa Conference, good for fourth place in the standings. A dozen IKM-M players scored vs. the Bulldogs, led by Kyler Rasmussen with 10 points and Connor Keller with eight. Both hit a pair of three-pointers.

 GLIDDEN (Jan.

 GLIDDEN (Jan. 14) -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton outscored Glidden-Ralston 16-6 in the fourth quarter to rally past the Wildcats 49-43 last Tuesday and improve to 6-4. Creighton Nelson led the Spartans with 18 points and 12 rebounds while Tyler Petersen had 12 points and five assists.

 UNDERWOOD (Jan.

 CLARINDA (Jan. 16) -- Andrew Andersen bowled a 264 high game and William Funke had a 257 on Thursday, but it wasn’t enough as the Harlan Community boys bowling team lost a dual at Clarinda by the final of 2,788 to 2,663. The Cyclone girls also came up short, falling 2,257 to 2,133. Both HCHS squads are now 1-3 against Hawkeye 10 competition.

 RED OAK -- The Harlan Community girls placed first and the boys took second at the Red Oak Bowling Tournament held last Tuesday (January 14). The Cyclone girls finished with a total team score of 2,394, closely followed by Red Oak (2,362), Lewis Central (2,325) and Shenandoah (2,306). Creston came in last with 2,068 pins. Shenandoah won the boys’ half of the meet with a team score of 2,919 total pins.

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 SHENANDOAH (Jan. 14) -- The Harlan Community wrestlers picked up two more dual wins Tuesday night at Shenandoah, defeating a strong Underwood squad 42-31 and topping Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln 65-12.

    AVOCA (Jan. 13) – The AHSTW Vikings scored a key conference win Monday as they took down the Tri-Center Trojans 57-54 in WIC boys basketball action.    The Vikes’ Joey Cunningham nailed four three-pointers in the game and led the way with 13 points for AHSTW, which saw four players score in double figures. Sam Porter contributed 11 points, four assists and five steals while Clayton Akers and Michael Mantell each added 10 points.

 AVOCA (Jan. 13) -- The AHSTW girls surged ahead 30-6 after one quarter and defeated Tri-Center 68-21 here Monday night, led by Kailey Jones’ 29 points, 13 rebounds and five steals. Jones hit 12-of-17 field goals.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Thirty Harlan Community Schools Special Olympics athletes participated Tuesday, January 7, at Iowa Western Community College in regional competition for basketball skills and cheerleading. The event was held at the IWCC Reiver Arena. All three cheerleading teams from Harlan Community have advanced to state March 13-14 in Iowa City.

 NEOLA (Jan. 11) -- Despite not having an individual champion, Harlan Community won Saturday’s Tri-Center Wrestling Invitational by placing in 12 out of 14 weight classes and outscoring 17 other teams. Led by a pair of runner-up wrestlers in freshman Zane Bendorf (160) and junior Jesse Schwery (220), HCHS scored 182 points to record its first tournament title of the season.