MANILLA -- It won’t be easy in a rugged Western Iowa Conference, but the IKM-Manning baseball team is hoping to sneak up on some teams this summer and improve on last year’s 7-17 overall record. Despite graduating seven senior contributors from last season’s eighth-place WIC squad, the Wolves...
HARLAN (June 4) -- Toshia Kasperbauer last coached the Harlan Community High School softball team in 2012, but she’s no stranger to the personnel of the 2020 Cyclones. The five juniors and three sophomores on this year’s HCHS roster, including her daugher Tianna, all played travel ball for...
HARLAN (June 4) -- The goal for the Harlan Community baseball team - finish the season in Des Moines - is a constant from year to year. And for eight consecutive seasons prior to last July, it was a reality. Longtime Cyclone head coach Steve Daeges and his staff have a proven system in place of...
HARLAN -- Seniors Abby Alberti and Lucy Borkowski of Harlan Community have been named to the 2020 Iowa Association of Track Coaches’ Academic All-State Team for track and field. The list includes 47 girls and 36 boys from across the state. Academic All-State requirements include being a senior...
HARLAN -- It’s official. The Shelby County Speedway will open its 2020 racing season Saturday night (June 6) following five weeks of cancellations due to COVID-19. The track season includes 10 Saturdays this summer with the exception of July 4 and July 25, concluding with the season championships...
PORTSMOUTH (May 31) -- Portsmouth rallied for six runs in the bottom of the eighth but left the bases loaded in a scoreless ninth inning on Sunday, falling to Walnut 11-9 in the Iowa Western League opener for both sides. Portsmouth trailed 11-2 at the seventh-inning stretch before mounting a...
AREA -- Three student-athletes from the Harlan Community Schools Delegation have been selected by Special Olympics Iowa as honorees for the 2020 Des Moines Register’s All-Iowa Sports Awards program. Seniors Gracie Assmann and Chloe Hays of HCSD are both among three finalists for the Special...
MARYVILLE, MO. (May 26) -- Harlan native Marcus Klein was one of 20 Northwest Missouri State University student-athletes to receive 2020 NCAA Division II All-American honors Tuesday for the indoor track season. The All-Americans were selected by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches...
HARLAN -- Abigail Alberti, a 2020 graduate of Harlan Community High School, was one of just seven seniors in the state awarded the 2020 Track Guy Foundation Scholarship on May 20. Abigail is the daughter of Todd and Jacqueline Alberti of Harlan. The Iowa Track Guy Foundation’s Board of Directors...
HCHS Baseball: 2020 ScheduleJune 15 at St. Albert (9-JV-V), 3:30June 16 at Kuemper (JV-V), 5:30June 18 at Glenwood (JV-V), 5:30June 22 Denison (JV-V), 5:30June 23 Lewis Central (JV-V), 5:30June 25 at Shenandoah (JV-V), 5:30June 29 Atlantic (JV-V), 5:30June 30 Clarinda (JV-V...