Category: sports
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Earlham Cardinals 2025-26 Winter Sports Preview
December 2, 2025 Boys’ Basketball With a new head coach and four new starters, the 2025-26 Cardinals might be difficult to recognize at first. But Cardinal basketball culture runs deep, so one thing that won’t change is the team’s approach to the game. Hard-working, hard-nosed Earlham basketball will be back…
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Football: Cards Crush Colfax-Mingo
September 30, 2025 After being blanked by one of the top teams in Class A the week prior, the Cardinals had a chance at a ‘get right’ game last Friday. They took advantage by beating Colfax-Mingo, 55-6, in Earlham on Homecoming. The Tigerhawks came into the game ranked 55th out…
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Football: Cardinals Pound Panthers
September 16, 2025 Late in the 4th quarter of the Cardinals’ 42-7 beatdown of Panorama at home late Friday, most of the starters were out of the game. But as the clock wound down, many of them were still grinding, working on something they knew was a weakness. They were…
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Earlham Fall Sports Underway
September 2, 2025 Football As in any first game of any season, the Cardinals had some good moments along with some bad moments against South Central Calhoun on the road last Friday. The good probably outweighed the bad, but against a tough opponent, it wasn’t quite enough—and the Cards lost,…
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2025 Cardinals Fall Sports Preview
August 26, 2025 Football A dozen seniors will lead the Cardinals into action this fall, hoping to improve on the team’s 6-3 record in 2024. In small-school Iowa football, a team needs to be good in the trenches. Ability to control the tempo on both sides of the ball is…
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Softball/Baseball: Cards Playoff Runs End
July 15, 2025 The Earlham Cardinals softball and baseball teams both lost last week, ending their seasons. The bar is set high at Earlham School for all sports, as it should be. On that measure, neither Cardinal team had a winning record, nor will they advance to the state tournaments…
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Baseball: Cards Clobber Southwest Valley; Advance in Districts
July 8, 2025 Most teams that lose twice as many games as they win during the regular season are ready to be done this time of year. Once they get to their playoff game, they go through their motions, lose, pack their stuff up quickly, head to the bus, and…
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Softball/Baseball: Cards Sweep Panthers
June 10, 2025 The Cardinals went to Panora on June 5 and left town with four conference wins. The softball Cards swept the Panthers, 10-2 and 6-5, while the baseball Cards won, 11-4 and 4-0. Softball The game of the evening was the nightcap of the softball doubleheader. The game…
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Earlham Cardinals Summer Sports Preview
May 27, 2025 Softball Coaches of the summer teams have the nearly impossible task of getting their teams ready for the upcoming season while the spring sports are reaching their zenith. As head coach of the boys’ track and softball teams, Coach Caskey always does an impressive Houdini act of…
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