DES MOINES (April 21) -- Local athletes from Harlan Community and IKM-Manning have qualified five events for the 2019 Drake Relays in Des Moines. This year’s area qualifiers - three individual events and two relays - will compete Friday and Saturday (April 26-27) at Drake Stadium. IKM-Manning freshman Amos Rasmussen will lead things off Friday at 8:40 a.m. in the 100-meter dash prelims.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (April 18) -- Harlan Community won two events, scored 122.5 points and placed second to Abraham Lincoln at Thursday’s Council Bluffs AL/TJ Girls Track Invitational. The Lynx showed up big for their home meet, led by senior standout Darby Thomas winning four gold medals in the long jump, 100-meter dash, 200 dash and 100 hurdles.

 WAUKEE (April 18) -- Harlan Community placed at least once in all 14 events it entered Thursday night, scoring 84 points and finishing fifth out of eight teams in the “Class A” division of the Waukee Boys Track Invitational. Pella led the Class A standings with 124.5 points, followed by Carlisle (119), Norwalk (110) and Dallas Center-Grimes (103).

 SHENANDOAH (April 16) -- Haley Manz was the third-place medalist with a round of 98 and Kayla Powers placed 12th with a 105 last Tuesday, leading Harlan Community to sixth out of nine teams in the Shenandoah Fillie Girls Golf Invitational held at the American Legion Country Club. Creston, paced by Rylie Driskell’s first-place round of 80 and Maria Groumoutis’ runner-up 96, won the team championship by 25 strokes over Glenwood, 403 to 428, fol

 SPENCER -- The Harlan Community boys shot an 18-hole score of 374 and finished 10th out of 12 teams at the Spencer Golf Invitational held April 15. Spencer won the meet by nine strokes over Clear Lake - 315 to 324 - while Webster City (334), Carroll (338) and Estherville-Lincoln Central (340) rounded out the top five.

Co-Ed Golf • April 15 • at Avoca Golf CourseGirls: Missouri Valley 203, AHSTW 245Medalist: Madison Lease, MV, 42. Runner-Up: Emma Jorgensen, AHSTW, 51.AHSTW Scorecard -- Emma Jorgensen 51, Darian Hansen 61, Hope Constable 65, Grace Luna 68.Boys: Missouri Valley 202, AHSTW 218Medalist: Nick Tennis, MV, 40.

 GRAND JUNCTION (April 15) -- Harlan Community was blanked 3-0 in boys soccer action at Greene County last Monday night, dropping the Cyclones to 4-5 overall and capping a very challenging stretch to start the season. Including a pair of weekend tournaments, HCHS played nine matches in a 19-day span between March 28 and April 15 - many against bigger schools and/or state-ranked foes.

 DENISON (April 15) -- Even with six contributors out of the lineup Monday night, the IKM-Manning boys track team had enough depth to place 25 entries in all 19 events and outscore host Denison-Schleswig 139-129 for a team title at the Ace Nelson Co-Ed Relays. The AHSTW and IKM-M girls also surpassed 100 points, placing second and third, respectively, behind Denison’s winning total of 176.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (April 16) -- Gold medals were hard to come by Tuesday night, but season-bests and PR’s were plentiful for the Harlan Community track teams at the Lewis Central Co-Ed Invitational. The Cyclone boys placed 14 times in just 12 of 19 events but still managed to finish second in the team standings with 80 points, trailing only Sergeant Bluff-Luton’s 128.5.

 HARLAN (April 16) -- Glenwood shot a team score of 166 at the Harlan Golf and Country Club on Tuesday, handing the Harlan Community boys a 16-stroke defeat (166-182) behind Ryan Leath’s two-over-par medalist round of 38 and 42’s from Eli Bales and Pierce Harrington. HCHS, now 1-2 in dual meets, was led by rounds of 44 from Mason Peters and Jacob Dotzler.

 NEOLA (April 16) -- AHSTW busted open a 1-1 tie with five goals in the last 22 minutes of the first half and went on to beat Tri-Center 8-1 in Western Iowa Conference boys soccer action here Tuesday night. Brayton Tuma scored a hat trick and Blake Osbahr had two goals for the Vikings (3-0), who return 15 seniors from last year’s Class 1A substate finalist. The match was tied 1-1 until the 19th minute following Tuma’s early goal for AHSTW and

 NEOLA (April 16) -- The AHSTW girls soccer team scored an early goal but was blanked by Tri-Center the rest of the way Tuesday in a 6-1 defeat. The Vikings dropped to 1-2 on the season while the Trojans improved to 4-3. Tri-Center took a 3-1 lead into halftime and quickly made it 4-1 on Miranda Ring’s header goal in the first 40 seconds of the second half.

 EARLHAM (April 13) -- The Harlan Community boys soccer team played two more matches that went to a penalty kick shootout last Saturday, going 1-1 and placing third at the Winterset Tournament held in Earlham. Both HCHS matches were scoreless through regulation. The Cyclones fell to 12th-ranked (2A) Gilbert 1-0 in the first round after losing the shootout 4-2. In the third-place match vs.

 HARLAN (April 8) -- The Harlan Community girls soccer team lost its season opener to Kuemper Catholic 3-1 last Monday at Merrill Field.

 HARLAN (April 9) -- The Harlan Community girls golfers improved their team score by 24 strokes from meet one to meet two, defeating Lewis Central 210-242 last Tuesday on a pleasant late afternoon at Harlan Golf and Country Club. Junior Haley Manz paced the Cyclones (1-1) with a medalist round of 49 vs. the Titans, highlighted by a par-birdie combo on the par-3 fifth hole and the par-5 sixth.