Category: sports
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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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2014-15 Cardinal Basketball Anniversary – Part 3
April 15, 2025 We talked recently with a few members of the 2014-15 Cardinal basketball team—Alan Schmidt, Dan Schmidt, Andy Algreen, A.J. Leporte, and head coach Kevin Williamson—and reminisced about their state tournament run. Enjoy the final installment of our three-part story. At the Well After storming through district play,…
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2014-15 Cardinal Basketball Anniversary – Part 2
April 8, 2025 We talked recently with a few members of the 2014-15 Cardinal basketball team—Alan Schmidt, Dan Schmidt, Andy Algreen, A.J. Leporte, and head coach Kevin Williamson—and reminisced about their state tournament run. Part 1 of that story was in the March 25 issue of The Echo, and we…
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2025 Spring Sports Preview
April 1, 2025 Track and Field On any given day, track practice at Earlham functions like a well-choreographed ballet. Kids on all four teams—high school boys and girls and middle school boys and girls—all work through their drills at the same time, one group never getting in the way of…
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Happy Anniversary!
2014-15 Cardinals finished 3rd at the state basketball tournament March 25, 2025 For young adults, the ten years right after high school are action packed. When you’re busy getting your career rolling, starting a family, and just generally finding your way in the world, things are happening so fast that…
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