HARLAN (Aug.

 ROCKWELL CITY -- Harlan Community Activities Director Mitch Osborn announced the following changes to the Cyclone volleyball schedule, which will effectively swap out one Saturday tournament for another. The HCHS volleyball team will no longer be playing in the Newton Tournament that was originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 29. Newton moved up the tournament to Thursday, Sept.

 HARLAN (Aug.

 AVOCA (Aug.

 UNDERWOOD (Aug. 24) -- Drake Partridge caught four touchdown passes from Blake Osbahr and also returned a punt 57 yards to paydirt last Friday night, leading the AHSTW football team past Underwood 47-14 in the non-district season opener for both teams. Partridge hauled in four receptions for 121 yards in the game, each going for a touchdown with a long of 43.

 GUTHRIE CENTER (Aug. 24) -- IKM-Manning scored four touchdowns in the opening 16 minutes and cruised past ACGC 35-0 in last Friday’s season-opening football game. The Wolves’ five touchdown drives averaged just four plays and covered 53 yards or less, including a one-play, two-yard series in the second quarter. Stephen Grimm opened the scoring by catching a 48-yard pass from Kyler Rasmussen and later added a 13-yard TD run.

 HARLAN (Aug.

 HARLAN (Aug. 25) -- The Harlan Community volleyball team started off strong but struggled to the finish line of Saturday’s eight-hour Cyclone Tournament, opening the season with a 3-3 record and a sixth-place finish. HCHS won its first three matches of the day, including a hard-fought 21-19, 21-19 decision over eventual champion Tri-Center, before losing 2-0 decisions vs.

 GLENWOOD (Aug.

 SHENANDOAH -- Chloe Falkena and Julia Kock both placed in the top six last Tuesday (Aug. 21) as the AHSTW cross country teams opened the season at the Shenandoah Early Bird Invite. No team scores were kept, but the AHSTW girls unofficially finished second to Shenandoah (39) with a point total of 61. Falkena placed fifth out of 62 girls with a five-kilometer time of 22:28 while Kock was close behind with a sixth-place time of 22:32.

 EXIRA (Aug.

 HARLAN (Aug. 24) -- Twenty-five days after starting football camp in late July, Harlan Community is set to open the 2018 season Friday night against the Denison-Schleswig Monarchs. The varsity game will kick off at 7:00 p.m. at Merrill Field (note the new start time), preceded by a freshmen game at 4:15.

 MANNING (Aug. 24) -- The IKM-Manning football team will become quite familiar with state highways 71 and 20 during the next two years as it joins the newly-aligned Class A, District 2 starting this fall. IKM-M is by far the southern-most school in the six-team league, which also includes Sioux Central (7-3 last year, Class A playoff qualifier), Ridge View (6-3), Manson-Northwest Webster (4-5), St.

 AVOCA (Aug.

 HARLAN -- Glancing at the preseason depth chart for the 2018 Harlan Community football team, it’s difficult to find a position group that doesn’t feature at least some level of returning talent. In all, the Cyclones bring back nine players on offense and seven on defense who started at least part-time for last year’s 10-2 Class 3A state semifinalist - a team that nearly pulled off an incredible comeback from down 35-0 in a 41-39 UNI-Dome loss