Category: sports
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Happy Anniversary to the 2014 State Champion Earlham Cardinal Softball Team!
August 27, 2024 Ten years ago, an experienced, talented, well-coached Earlham Cardinal team capped an amazing season by winning the Class 2A state softball championship in Fort Dodge. In commemoration of that achievement, we recently talked to Coach Caskey and a few members of the team about their remembrances and…
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Earlham Cardinals Summer Sports Preview
May 21, 2024 Softball Expectations are always high with Earlham softball. When a program is a perennial powerhouse with a slew of state tournament appearances and a couple of state championship trophies, that just comes with the territory. With eight high-level returning starters—five seniors and three juniors—from a team that…
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Spring Sports Preview
March 26, 2024 Track Earlham track and field is just one big happy family. Technically, there are four teams: high school boys and girls, and junior high boys and girls. But on most spring days after school, they’re all out on the track or on the roads at the same…
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Boys’ Wrestling: Cardinals Fly High at State
February 20, 2024 With two wrestlers that placed and two that advanced to the 3rd round of the consolation bracket, the Earlham Cardinals finished 16th in Class 1A at the state wrestling tournament last week. That’s not bad for anybody. For a school that didn’t even have its own program…
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Celebrating the Seniors
February 13, 2024 Basketball, wrestling, and band seniors were honored on February 6 between the girls’ and boys’ basketball games with Des Moines Christian. We spoke with the basketball seniors about their years playing for the Cardinals. For those of you that played high school sports, when you think back…
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Cardinal Girls Wrestling
January 30, 2024 Glade Wins Super Regional There is no easy path in wrestling, but Haley Glade made her run to the super regional title at 145 ‘look’ easy. She won her first three matches by fall in an average time of just over 2 minutes. She won the 1st…
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Basketball: Cardinals Split With Van Meter
January 23, 2024 The Cardinals split a conference doubleheader with Van Meter at home on January 19. The girls won, 54-40, while the boys lost, 59-37. Girls The term ‘must-win’ is a bit of a cliché, but the Cardinals certainly ‘needed’ to win against Van Meter. The Cards had lost…
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Cards/Hawks Split
January 9, 2024 The Cards entertained the Woodward-Granger Hawks on January 2 for a conference double header in the first games of 2024. The Cardinal boys won, 49-33, while the girls lost, 48-40. Boys The Earlham Cardinals had their backs against the wall late in the game, but like they…
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Tales from the Golf Course: The Botched Shotgun
January 2, 2024 Golf and beer are two of my favorite things, but I rarely partake in both at the same time. I’m not opposed to having a cold one during a round—I just generally don’t do it. Maybe that’s because I play most of my rounds by myself during…
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Cards Edge Van Meter
December 19, 2023 Sometimes when you’re watching your favorite team play and the game isn’t going well, you think, ‘Well, it’s just not their night,’ and you resign yourself to the inevitable. But occasionally, the inevitable becomes the improbable. When Earlham trailed by 12 points to Van Meter at the…
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