Category: sports
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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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Football: Cards Demolish South Central Calhoun
October 17, 2023 Earlham football has been good for a long time. In most seasons, it isn’t uncommon for the Cards to blow out an opponent or two, so fans—and even the players and coaches—kind of expect it to happen occasionally. But the way the Cards dismantled South Central Calhoun—an…
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Football: Cards Beat Riverside
October 10, 2023 Last Friday’s game against Oakland Riverside wasn’t the best defensive performance that the Cardinal defense has had this season. The Bulldogs scored 5 touchdowns and gained 188 yards through air and 213 on the ground. But in this exciting, back-and-forth battle that the Cards won, 49-35, one…
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Volleyball: Cardinals Hold Off Wildcats
October 3, 2023 For the second match in a row, the Cardinals played a team at or near the bottom of the conference standings. Two weeks ago, the Cards didn’t play their best match ever against Panorama, but still won in straight sets. On September 26 at home against West…
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Football: Cards Crush Southwest Valley
September 19, 2023 by Quinn Weber Thirty-five points is a lot for a whole game, but the Cards did that in one quarter last Friday against Southwest Valley. The Cardinals came out firing on all cylinders in their homecoming game with 5 touchdowns in the opening frame—and only slowed down…
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Football: Cards Win Shootout with IKM-Manning
September 12, 2023 Less than a minute into the 2nd quarter last Friday, IKM-Manning had had three possessions, scoring touchdowns on two of them. The Earlham offense didn’t even have a first down yet. That might have been an indication that it just wasn’t going to be their night—but the…
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Cardinal Volleyball Gets Two Wins
September 5, 2023 Cardinals Edge I-35 The Earlham Cardinals got an exciting conference win on August 29 when they beat I-35 at home, 3-2 (25-19, 18-25, 25-11, 25-27, 15-8). Despite dropping two sets, the Cardinals clearly looked like the better team for most of the night. Perhaps winning in straight…
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