HARLAN (April 19) -- The Harlan Community girls tennis team lost to unbeaten Shenandoah 9-0 in dual play Thursday at the Harlan high school courts. HCHS dropped to 1-4 on the season. The Fillies (5-0) only dropped a game in the number-one singles and number-one doubles matches. The closest score of the meet came at No. 1 singles, where Cyclone senior Nicole Lange lost 3-8 to Shenandoah’s Nichole Gilbert.

 HARLAN (April 16) -- The Greene County boys soccer team entered Monday night’s game at Harlan Community with a 4-0 record, a number 14-ranking in Class 1A and a leading scorer with 11 early-season goals. A tough challenge was expected from the upstart Rams - in their first year as a varsity program - but the Cyclones sent them away with a resounding 6-0 defeat on another chilly night at Merrill Field. Six different players put in a goal for H

 HARLAN (April 16) -- The end result wasn’t a victory, but the Harlan Community girls soccer team will look to take some positives away from Monday night’s 2-1 home loss to Missouri Valley. After being outscored 18-1 in their first three games against Sioux City West, Tri-Center and Glenwood, the Cyclones outshot the Lady Reds by a modest 8-6 count on goal and tied the match with 13:51 remaining on a well-struck cross by Kylee Hinz. Missouri V

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (April 17) -- Nick Foss and Chloe Hansen both won their signature events Tuesday night as the Harlan Community boys placed fourth and the girls placed fifth at the Lewis Central Co-Ed Track Meet. Season-best times were hard to come by on a cool, windy night and the meet lasted more than six hours, finishing at 10:10 p.m. The Cyclone boys placed 18 times in 15 events and scored 88 points to finish behind Atlantic (117), Lewis Ce

 ATLANTIC (April 17) -- Shelbi Wilson won the girls 3,000-meter run and Evan Wilson won the boys 3,200 Tuesday night as the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton track teams finished near the middle of the pack at the CAM Co-Ed Classic held in Atlantic. The Spartan boys placed fifth out of 11 teams with 49 points, scoring in nine total events, while the girls placed in seven events and took sixth in the team standings with 42 points. Shelbi Wilson won gol

 GLENWOOD (April 17) -- The Harlan Community boys golf team lost by 14 strokes in dual play at Glenwood Tuesday, falling 155 to 169 at the Glenwood Golf Course. HCHS is now 2-1 on the season. The Cyclone bright spot at Glenwood was HCHS junior Jay Swanson chipping in for birdie on his last hole to secure first-place medalist honors with a 37.

 HARLAN (April 17) -- The Harlan Community girls tennis team split a pair of home meets in the last week, beating Audubon 6-3 on April 12 and losing to an undefeated Glenwood squad 9-0 on April 17. The Cyclones’ top four seeds all won twice against the Wheelers, including one-sided singles wins by Nicole Lange (8-1), Taylor Andersen (8-0), Amelia Juhl (8-4) and Elise Juhl (8-3).

 GLENWOOD (April 17) -- The Harlan Community boys tennis team took a 3-2 dual record into Thursday’s meet at Shenandoah following a 9-0 defeat at Glenwood Tuesday. HCHS also notched an 8-1 dual win at Audubon on April 12 before its meets at St. Albert (April 13) and vs. Kuemper (April 16) were postponed. All six Cyclone varsity players earned at least one win against the Wheelers as they were just a tiebreaker loss away from a 9-0 sweep.

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 OMAHA, NEB. (April 12) -- Avery Blasdel and Mia McCorkle scored two goals apiece and Blasdel also had two assists to lead 14th-ranked (2A) Glenwood past Harlan Community 6-0 in girls soccer action Thursday at Creighton University’s Morrison Stadium. The Cyclones, now 0-3 overall and 0-1 in the Hawkeye Ten Conference, were held without a shot attempt in the game while the Rams took 35 total shots and 28 shots on goal (11 by Blasdel).

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (April 12) -- AHSTW’s Gage Clay and Harlan Community’s Nick Foss combined to win three gold medals Thursday night at the C.B. Boys Invitational track meet held at the Gale Wickersham Athletic Complex. HCHS scored 11 times in 10 events and tied Treynor for fifth place in the team standings with 54 points. AHSTW placed in seven events and finished 10th out of 14 teams with 43 points. The meet’s top four teams included St.

 NEOLA (April 12) -- Impressive wins by Ryann Portch in the 800-meter run and Heidi Hall in the 1,500 pushed the AHSTW girls to third place out of 13 teams at Thursday night’s breezy Tri-Center Invitational. Portch, who also anchored two second-place relays - the sprint medley and the 4x400 - ran an aggressive 64-second opening lap in the 800 and buried the rest of the field with a personal-best time of 2:22.06 that is just shy of a school rec

 GLENWOOD (April 12) -- Chloe Hansen’s gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles marked Harlan Community’s only top-three finish Thursday night as the Cyclones placed 10th at the Glenwood Girls Ram Relays with just 41 points. Glenwood, despite winning only two events, easily paced the 11-team field with 135 points, followed by Sioux City Bishop Heelan (87.5), Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln (79.5), Lewis Central (77) and Sioux City East (75). Hansen

 AVOCA (April 12) -- In a matchup of undefeated, state-ranked boys soccer teams, AHSTW scored late in the first half and early in the second to shut out Tri-Center 2-0 here Thursday. The game remained scoreless until 1:49 left in the first half when Kyle Branan’s indirect free kick led to a goal by Viking junior Matthew Herrera.

 HARLAN (April 9) -- It was one of the easier goals, but perhaps the most exciting, that Dylan Eshelman will ever score. Less than two minutes into the first of two possible overtime periods Monday night, Eshelman made Kuemper Catholic pay for a mistake in front of the net, scoring the game-winning goal in sudden death to lift the Harlan Community boys soccer team past the Knights, 3-2, in a chilly 82-minute thriller at Merrill Field. The game