SIOUX CITY (March 13) -- Senior football players Nick Foss of Harlan Community, AJ Sieh of AHSTW and Ben Sorenson of Tri-Center have been selected to play for the South Squad in the 2018 Iowa Shrine Bowl All-Star Game on Saturday, July 21, at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. Foss, Sieh and Sorenson attended Tuesday night’s Abu Bekr Shriners media day along with their parents at the MTA/Shrine Centre in Sioux City.

 VERMILLION, S.D. (March 13) -- Kara Rueschenberg and Greichaly Kaster both won individual races on Tuesday to highlight Harlan Community’s performances at the season-opening Bob Prince Early Bird Indoor Track Invite, hosted by the University of South Dakota at the Dakota Dome. Rueschenberg won the girls 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:58.85 while Kaster won the 3,000 in 12:05.47.

 HARLAN -- For the second straight year, a group of Harlan Community Middle School students attended a bowling camp at Cyclones Lanes which was hosted by the high school bowling teams. The five-session camp allows the middle school students to get an inside look at what the high school team does in preparation for competition while also teaching some of the fundamentals of the sport.

Hawkeye Ten Conf. Girls Basketball

 GRINNELL -- The Harlan Swim Club capped a successful 2017-18 winter season at the Greater Iowa Swim League State Meet in Grinnell on Saturday, March 10.

 DES MOINES -- Representing the community of Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton, Lisa Burmeister received the Iowa Farm Bureau Sportsmanship Award at the Girls State Basketball Tournament on February 28. A fan from each school participating in the tournament was presented a sportsmanship award prior to the team’s first-round game.

 DES MOINES (March 9) -- The Glenwood boys basketball team represented southwest Iowa and the Hawkeye Ten Conference in fine fashion last week, winning three straight thrillers at Wells Fargo Arena to claim the program’s first-ever state championship. This year’s Class 3A title winner, which beat Harlan Community 82-69 in a substate final on February 26, features plenty of local ties. Rams head coach Curt Schulte graduated from HCHS in 1989 an

 DES MOINES (March 6) -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton senior Sophia Peppers became a two-time, first-team all-state selection this week, recognized among the top eight girls basketball players in Class 1A by the Iowa Print Sports Writers Association. The newly-formed IPSWA announced its first-ever girls basketball All-State teams on Tuesday, also citing area seniors Kealey Nelson of Exira-EHK (1A) and Kia Rasmussen of IKM-Manning (2A) as third-te

 AVOCA -- AHSTW senior AJ Sieh signed a national letter of intent on February 7 to play football at NCAA Division II powerhouse Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville.

 ROCKPORT, TEX. -- This 41-inch black drum was caught by Brad Campbell and released off of Rockport Beach in Texas. Brad lives near Polk City, Iowa and is formerly from Irwin. Rockport, Texas, located along the Gulf of Mexico near Corpus Christi, was devastated by Hurricane Harvey last summer but is coming back strong, according to Campbell.

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community Athletic Booster Club Hall of Fame added four new inductees on Friday, February 2, as longtime booster club members Brian and Pam Gubbels and Chris and Joni Larsen were recognized during the HCHS girls and boys basketball games vs. Glenwood.

 HARLAN -- Nine youth wrestlers from the Harlan Community Wrestling Club recently competed at the Iowa AAU State Tournament in Des Moines and/or the Iowa Super Pee Wee State Wrestling Championship meet in Waterloo. Results from the AAU State Tournament, held Feb.

 DES MOINES (March 2) -- The Springville girls basketball team is already a formidable outfit when seniors Mikayla Nachazel and Rylee Menster shoulder the scoring load and everyone else contributes to a great defense. When the role players and subs start knocking down shots as well, the top-ranked Orioles are downright unbeatable. It was that kind of afternoon for Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton Friday as the seventh-ranked and fourth-seeded Spartan

 DES MOINES (March 2) -- The final numbers are nothing short of fantastic for Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton seniors Sophia Peppers and Kealey Nelson. Peppers and Nelson played their final high school game on Friday as the Spartans lost to Springville in the 1A state tournament semifinals.

 DES MOINES (March 3) -- For the second straight year, Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton’s Sophia Peppers was one of six girls named to the Class 1A All-Tournament Team at the Girls State Basketball Tournament in Des Moines.