Category: sports
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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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Basketball: Cards Sweep Trojans
December 5, 2023 The Cardinals swept Pleasantville at home on November 30, winning the girls’ game, 52-44, and the boys’ game, 63-54. Girls Five Cardinals scored 8 or more points and their swarming team defense forced 24 turnovers in the win. Like in their opening game earlier in the week,…
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Cardinals Winter Sports Preview
November 28, 2023 Wrestling When you walk into the Earlham wrestling room during practice, you’re almost overwhelmed by the heat and humidity. Part of that is certainly the subpar circulation in the room. But after watching the Cardinals work for a while, you realize that the heaviness of the air…
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XC: Cardinal Boys, Girls Win at State Qual Meet
October 24, 2023 The Earlham cross country teams continued an era of dominance when both the girls’ and boys’ teams won their state qualifying races on October 18 in Mount Ayr, punching their tickets to the state meet in Fort Dodge this Friday. The Cardinal girls have now been to…
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