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Volleyball: Cardinals Outlast Wildcats
October 8, 2024 It may not have been their best volleyball of the season, but the Cardinals toughed out a 5-set match on October 1 on the road against West Central, winning 3-2 (25-16, 18-25, 25-14, 23-25, 15-2). Perhaps a 3-set win over a 4-win team would have been preferable,…
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Football: Cards Topple Tigers
October 1, 2024 High school football—and sports in general—are a big deal. If anyone doubted that, they should have been in Earlham last Friday for the Cardinals 21-14 win over Madrid on Homecoming. From the pre-game intros featuring 15-foot-high flames, fireworks after touchdowns, tons of TV cameras, and the Cardinal…
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Football: Cardinals Whip the Wolves
September 17, 2024 Earlham is a ‘run-first’ team, to be sure. But that’s a little misleading. They’re also a ‘run-second’ and ‘run-third’ team. But in their 40-18 win over IKM-Manning last Friday, the Cardinals sent a message loud and clear that their passing game cannot be ignored. The Cardinals only…
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Earlham Cardinals Fall Sports Preview
August 27, 2024 Football Head coach Chris Caskey has coached a long time. He’s had good offensive and defensive schemes that work, and his teams have won a lot of games. He doesn’t waver much from those schemes, but he’s not afraid to tweak things, either. A recent trend in…
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Local celebrity heads for greener pastures
August 6, 2024 Warner Glenn, a 17-year-old longhorn steer owned by Radakovich Cattle Company, passed away on July 25. If there’s a bovine heaven, Warner Glenn has taken a seat there in the tall grass. Of course, no steer could have enjoyed a more heavenly life on earth than Warner…
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Chicks With Checks Celebrates 10 Years
July 30, 2024 All great things come from small beginnings. For Connie Terry, founder of Chicks With Checks, the beginning of that organization couldn’t have been much smaller. “My husband and I were talking one day and we kind of cooked up just an initial bug of an idea,” said…
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Baseball: Cards win semifinal, lose in district final
July 16, 2024 Cards vs. Grandview Christian, July 9 The district semifinal in Earlham between the Cardinals and Grandview Christian on July 9 was already filled with enough excitement, but a surprise ending added even more drama, as the Cards hung on for a 4-3 win. In the bottom of…
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Cardinal Softball Post-Season Preview
July 9, 2024 With a starting lineup that consists of 5 seniors and 3 juniors, the Cardinals will have an experienced team taking the field in the post-season in 2024. And when July hits, that experience comes in handy. Playoff games are not the same as regular season games. “They’re…
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Cards Top Collins-Maxwell to Advance to District Semifinal
July 9, 2024 The Cardinals will need everybody to contribute if they want to make a deep playoff run this season. In a 12-2 win over Collins-Maxwell at home on July 6, all 11 Cardinals that played ended up notching something good in the scorebook. Eight of the 9 Earlham…
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Wrestling Roundup
February 6, 2024 Cardinal Boys Win 1 of 2 at Regional Duals There were plenty of white-knuckle moments for the Cardinals in their match against Pleasantville at regional duals in Alburnett on January 30, but the tension reached a peak at the very end. With the Cards leading, 36-35, the…
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