HARLAN -- Hosting one of the top girls soccer teams in the state on Monday, Harlan Community fell behind 4-0 in the opening three minutes and never recovered, losing to Lewis Central 10-0 in a match that ended via the mercy rule with 18 minutes remaining. The 2nd-ranked (Class 2-A) Titans reached 10 goals for the fifth time on the year, improving to 9-3 overall and 6-0 in the Hawkeye Ten.

 CARROLL -- Junior Isaac Stitz earned two of Harlan Community’s three wins and placed third in the singles bracket last Thursday (May 12) as the Cyclones finished their season by placing sixth in the Class 1-A Boys District Tennis Tournament at Carroll. Just two days after finishing second in the Hawkeye Ten Conference Meet, HCHS was unable to repeat the same level of success at districts and scored only six points. “Today was not our day,” st

 COUNTY -- The Harlan Community Trap Team held their second home meet of the year at Shelby County Trap Range on April 16. The meet included 236 shooters from 12 different schools. Once again, the wind was a major factor with gusts of 25 mph making the targets very sporty.    Harlan Community High School’s Team Red placed 2nd in the team event. Team members were Jack Gubbels, Alex Assmann, Jamie Schechinger, Marshall Tucker and Lucas Schmitz.

 COUNTY -- The Harlan Community Trap Team held its first meet of the year April 2 at the Shelby County Trap Range. Two hundred shooters from nine different schools participated, with wind gusts up to 30 mph making the targets very challenging. Thirty middle and high school students shot this event. Harlan Community Middle Schooler Michael Heithoff placed first over the field of 83 shooters, hitting 41x50.

 MAPLETON -- IKM-Manning’s Brooke Waterbury shot identical nine-hole rounds of 50 on Monday, scoring an even 100 to place fourth in the Class 2-A, Region 2A Girls Golf Tournament at Mapleton’s Willow Vale Golf Club. By placing in the top five with her career-best 18-hole score, Waterbury qualified to play in the Region 2 Final tournament Monday, May 23, at Neola’s Quail Run Country Club.

 GLENWOOD -- For the second straight year, Harlan Community has qualified a combined 17 boys and girls entries for the 2016 Co-Ed State Track and Field Championships in Des Moines. Both Cyclone squads placed fifth at Thursday night’s Class 3-A State Qualifying Meet in Glenwood. More importantly, they each qualified eight events for the state meet, set for Thursday through Saturday (May 19-21) at Drake Stadium.

 TREYNOR -- AHSTW sophomore Gage Clay qualified two events for state while Lady Vike junior Jaycie Schueman advanced in one event at Thursday’s Class 2-A Co-Ed State Qualifying Track Meet in Treynor. Clay, who placed 12th in the Drake Relays’ 100-meter dash last month, won both the 100 and 200-meter sprints on Thursday, including a new personal-best time of 22.48 seconds in the 200. His winning time in the 100 was 11.23.

 GRISWOLD -- Three Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton athletes combined to qualify for state in four events with their efforts at Thursday’s Class 1-A Co-Ed State Qualifying Meet in Griswold. Spartan junior Emily Copic earned state bids with second-place finishes in both the 3,000 and 1,500-meter runs. Her season-best times of 11:45.16 and 5:22.62 rank 11th and 15th, respectively among 1-A qualifiers.

 MANSON -- The IKM-Manning track teams both placed in the top three of Thursday’s Class 1-A State Qualifying Meet at Manson, combining to qualify four relays and one individual event for this week’s Co-Ed State Track and Field Championships in Des Moines (May 19-21). The Wolves placed second in the boys team standings with 85 points, trailing only Manson Northwest Webster’s 125.

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community girls tennis team picked up its second dual win of the year on Thursday with a 9-0 victory over Audubon. The Cyclones competed at their conference tournament Monday and will go to the regional tourney at Red Oak Thursday.

 RED OAK -- On April 19, the Harlan Community boys tennis team lost a 9-0 dual meet decision at Glenwood that dropped its season record to 3-4 overall. Three weeks and five dual wins later, the Cyclones are a much stronger team in May and the results bore that out at Tuesday’s Hawkeye Ten Conference Boys Tennis Tournament in Red Oak. Highlighted by Josh Cheek and Kaleb Kaster placing first in the number two doubles bracket, HCHS finished sixth

 GLENWOOD -- On a day when 23 golfers broke 80, Harlan Community notched its best 18-hole team score of the season to place sixth out of 11 teams at Tuesday’s Hawkeye Ten Conference Boys Golf Tournament in Glenwood. Junior Matthew Bjoin’s career-best 76 was good enough for 11th place and a second-team all-conference medal, leading the Cyclones to an overall score of 322.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Maggie Langenfeld and Amber Gross both earned second-team all-conference status on Tuesday, leading Harlan Community to a fourth-place finish at the Hawkeye Ten Conference Girls Golf Tournament held at Council Bluffs’ Fox Run Golf Club. Langenfeld placed ninth out of 12 medalists with an 18-hole score of 92 that feature a 42 on the back nine.

 AVOCA -- The losing streak is over for the Harlan Community girls soccer team. Getting a career-high four goals from junior forward Haley Arkfeld, the Cyclones took an early 2-0 lead and never trailed in Tuesday’s non-conference game at AHSTW, posting a 4-2 win that stopped a nine-game, five-week slide. HCHS improved to 2-9 on the year while AHSTW fell to 3-4 overall.

 AVOCA -- The AHSTW boys soccer team improved to 6-4 overall here Tuesday night with a 7-2 victory over Clarinda Academy. Viking senior Chase Jacobsen completed a three-goal hat trick with 15:10 left in the match while Rudy Herrera, Preslyn Grobe, Dawson Martin and Gabe Madsen scored one goal apiece.