MISSOURI VALLEY -- Following a scoreless first half, Haley Arkfeld’s penalty kick in the 51st minute sparked the Harlan Community girls soccer team to a 4-2 victory at Missouri Valley on Monday, April 17. Arkfeld finished with a hat trick on Mo. Valley’s brand new regulation-width turf field, scoring her second goal in the 54th minute (assisted by Kylee Hinz) and adding a third goal in the 76th minute.

 DENISON -- The Harlan Community boys soccer team’s impressive shutout streak came to an end Thursday night when the Cyclones were blanked by Denison-Schleswig, 4-0. Sophomore Cesar Rodriguez scored a three-goal hat trick for the Monarchs and assisted their other goal as Denison became the first team all year to score on the 14th-ranked (2-A) Cyclones, who had outscored their first four opponents by a combined 11-0. The Monarchs’ combination o

 DENISON -- The Denison-Schleswig girls scored five goals in the final 26 minutes Thursday night to pull away from Harlan Community, 8-4, in a high-scoring Hawkeye Ten Conference soccer match. HCHS, which trailed 3-0 late in the first half, rallied to tie the score (3-3) with 28:34 remaining but couldn’t put the brakes on Denison’s capable offense the rest of the way. Monarch sophomore Alex Mohr scored five goals for the second straight game a

 WAUKEE -- Nick Foss earned a spot in the Drake Relays’ long jump Thursday night (April 20), placing second at the Waukee Boys Invitational for Harlan Community’s top performance of the meet. On the final night to improve times and distances for Drake, Foss went two and a half inches farther than his previous best in the long jump, topping out at 21-9 to secure his ticket to “America’s Athletic Classic” later this week.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Harlan Community won four events and scored 69 points to place fifth at Thursday’s Council Bluffs Girls Track Invitational at the Gale Wickersham Athletic Complex. HCHS coach Doug Renkly scaled back the workload for many of his top runners and left some events unentered as the Cyclones looked to rest up for Monday’s Swede Johnson Cyclone Relays in Harlan. Led by a four-gold night from sophomore standout Darby Thomas, Council

 HARLAN -- Harlan Community senior Jessica Phipps has signed a letter of intent to join the Morningside College women’s bowling team in the fall of 2017. Jessica is the daughter of Donald and Nancy Phipps, Harlan. Phipps becomes the fourth Cyclone bowler in the last two years to sign with Morningside, joining Bailey Portwood, Elizabeth Stroud and Joshua Grote from the class of 2016.

 HARLAN -- Harlan Community won two out of three doubles matches to outlast Shenandoah, 5-4, in boys tennis action here Thursday, improving its dual record to 5-4 with three regular-season meets remaining. Two days after losing a 5-4 heartbreaker to Glenwood, the Cyclones split their six varsity singles matches with the Mustangs before taking care of business in doubles play. The combo of Isaac Stitz and Alec Plagman dominated their No.

2017 HCHS Girls Tennis ScheduleThurs., April 6    at Denison-Schleswig (Lost 9-0)Tues., April 11    vs. Lewis Central (Lost 8-1)Thurs., April 13    at Audubon (Won 9-0)Mon., April 17    vs. Kuemper Catholic (Lost 9-0)Tues., April 18    at Glenwood (Lost 9-0)Thurs., April 20    at Shenandoah (Lost 9-0)Sat., April 22    Atlantic Trojan Tournament (4th Place)Mon., April 24    vs. Atlantic (V/JV), 4:30Tues., April 25    vs. St.

2017 HCHS Boys Tennis ScheduleTues., March 28    vs. CB Abraham Lincoln (Lost 5-4)Tues., April 4    at CB Thomas Jefferson (Won 9-0)Thurs., April 6    vs. Denison-Schleswig (Lost 7-2)Fri., April 7    vs. St. Albert (Won 9-0)Tues., April 11    at Lewis Central (Won 8-1)Thurs., April 13    vs. Audubon (Won 9-0)Mon., April 17    at Kuemper Catholic (Lost 8-1)Tues., April 18    vs. Glenwood (Lost 5-4)Thurs., April 20    vs.

 DES MOINES -- Area track and field athletes have qualified five events - four individual and one relay - for the 2017 Drake Relays in Des Moines later this week. The list of local qualifiers includes three entries for the Harlan Community girls team and one each for the HCHS and AHSTW boys.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- An off day in the shot put only served as motivation when it came time for Gillian Streit to throw the discus at Tuesday’s Lewis Central Co-Ed Track Meet. Three spins later, the Harlan Community senior had all but locked up a coveted spot in next week’s Drake Relays. With absolutely zero help from the wind, Streit launched her three best discus throws of the season in succession - all more than 120 feet - during the second f

 AUDUBON -- The Harlan Community girls tennis team picked up their first meet win of the season on Thursday, April 13, scoring a 9-0 victory at Audubon. All nine varsity matches were decided by scores of 8-0, 8-1, 8-2 or 8-3. The 8-0 decisions were recorded by Nicole Lange in singles play as well as the doubles team of Lexie Bruns and Taylor Andersen. HCHS also won two out of three junior varsity matches.

 AVOCA -- The AHSTW boys soccer team picked up a pair of hard-fought home wins earlier this week, improving to 4-0 overall with victories of 3-1 over St. Albert Monday and 2-1 over Treynor on Tuesday. AHSTW 3, St. Albert 1 - Senior Preslyn Grobe scored a pair of goals and sophomore Kyle Branan added another as the Vikings notched an impressive non-conference win on Monday.

 SPENCER -- All six of Harlan Community’s golfers shot under 90 and finished in the top half of the field as the Cyclones placed fourth out of 13 teams at Monday’s Spencer Boys Golf Invitational. HCHS junior Kevin Campbell scored a 37 on the back nine and finished with a 5-over-par round of 77 to tie for eighth place out of 74 players in the field and earn a medal.

 HARLAN -- Glenwood and Kuemper Catholic posted the top five rounds of the day and both outscored Harlan Community in a boys golf triangular Tuesday (April 18) at the Harlan Golf and Country Club. Paced by three scores of 39, Glenwood won the meet with a team score of 159, followed by Kuemper’s 162 and the Cyclones’ 167.