HARLAN -- Six errors and four unearned runs cost the Harlan Community softball team a victory Thursday night (June 15) as Glenwood beat the Cyclones 4-2 in the first game of a doubleheader. Game two was suspended by rain and lightning in the fourth inning with the Rams leading 3-2 and will be completed on Friday, June 23, at 1:00 p.m. HCHS let an opportunity slip away in game one as all four Ram runs were unearned against Cyclone sophomore Mo

 FORT DODGE -- Harlan Community finished in 16th place with an 0-4 record at the Fort Dodge Softball Tournament this past weekend, facing a pair of top-five ranked teams at the Harlan Rogers Sports Complex. On Friday (June 16), HCHS was defeated by Fort Dodge 9-2 in the first round and lost 7-2 vs. top-ranked (Class 2-A) North Union in the consolation bracket.

 ELK HORN -- Always be aggressive and make the other team make plays. That’s been the mantra for Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton baseball so far this season and it paid dividends once again Friday night (June 16) as the 10th-ranked (1-A) Spartans topped Ar-We-Va, 2-1, in a mid-season battle of unbeaten teams. With the game tied 1-1 in the bottom of the sixth, Spartan senior Tyson Partridge led off second base with nobody out and Drew Buckholdt stand

 AVOCA -- Withstanding a nine-run third inning by Riverside, the AHSTW baseball team went ahead with two runs in the bottom of the fifth and held off the Bulldogs 11-10 Thursday night (June 15), improving to 10-5 overall and 8-5 in the Western Iowa Conference. The Vikings held an early 8-0 lead when Riverside erupted for nine runs against a combination of Blaine Lees and Joey Cunningham in the top of the third. AHSTW was able to tie the game i

 IRWIN -- IKM-Manning stayed right in the hunt for a Western Iowa Conference regular season softball title Thursday night (June 15), defeating 14th-ranked (2-A) Treynor 7-2 to avenge its only WIC loss of the year. Wolves’ junior Peyton Gross pitched a two-hitter with eight strikeouts and also scored three runs as IKM-M improved to 15-4 overall and 12-1 in league play, tied for first place with Logan-Magnolia (13-1) in the loss column. Treynor,

 HARLAN -- Win or lose, the Harlan Community baseball team needed a battle like the one it got from Kuemper Catholic Tuesday night at Jim Goeser Field. Falling behind three separate times during the first six innings, HCHS erased deficits of 2-0, 3-2 and 4-3 against Knights ace Tyler Laing, then took its first lead on a pop-up that landed about 40 feet from home plate. Three outs later, the top-ranked (3-A) Cyclones were 15-0 - the result of a

 HARLAN -- Allowing runs in eight straight innings during one stretch, Harlan Community was swept by Kuemper Catholic 7-3 and 11-7 in a Hawkeye 10 Conference softball doubleheader Tuesday night (June 13) at windy H.

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community softball team scored nine runs in the first and cruised past St.

 HARLAN -- Brett Sears hit his first varsity home run and pitched six strong innings on the mound here Monday night (June 12) as the Harlan Community baseball team defeated St. Albert 8-1. Sears finished 2-for-4 with a double, a homer, two runs and two RBI - the home run coming against hard-throwing left-hander Garret Reisz.

 AUDUBON -- Keyed by a seven-run fourth inning, the AHSTW baseball team earned a season split vs.

 AUDUBON -- Interrupted only by a one-hour lightning delay, the AHSTW softball team followed a seven-run first inning with eight runs in the top of the second and blitzed Audubon 15-1 in a three-inning Western Iowa Conference game Monday night (June 12). The Lady Vikes (8-6 overall, 5-6 in the Western Iowa Conference) put together 10 hits and were the beneficiary of eight walks in sweeping the season series.

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Swim Team opened its 2017 season with a decisive win over Woodbine and Logan on June 7 at the Stamp Aquatic Center. Harlan scored 629 points on the night, followed by Woodbine (204) and Logan (97), and set nine facility or school records in the process. This year’s Harlan swim team is 87 members strong, the highest enrollment on record going back to at least 2009.

 ANKENY – Harlan Community Middle School’s Justine Buman brought home two medals from the Mike Henderson Junior High State Track Meet held May 6 at Ankeny Stadium. Justine was an eighth grader at HCMS during the 2016-17 school year and is the daughter of Jeff and Janet Buman, Harlan. Buman ran a time of 16.97 in the 100-meter hurdles, earning second place among all participants in the large-schools division, which includes Iowa classes 3A and

 ELK HORN -- Taking over for a local legend isn’t easy, but the process has certainly been a smooth one so far for new Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton baseball coach Trevor Miller. Miller’s Spartans stayed undefeated Friday night with an 11-1, five-inning rout of Earlham, then improved to 10-0 Saturday by beating a pair of 3-A teams (Atlantic and Perry) in the Atlantic Tournament.

 CLARINDA -- The unbeaten streak reached 13 games for the Harlan Community baseball team Thursday night as the top-ranked Cyclones swept a doubleheader at Clarinda, 15-1 and 13-1, and have now outscored the opposition 150-27 on the season. HCHS, which has won nine straight games by the 10-run rule, utilized a seven-run third inning in game one and a six-run fourth in game two, finishing off the Cardinals in five and six innings, respectively.