LOGAN (June 27) -- In a wild Western Iowa Conference Softball Tournament semifinal, Riverside rallied three times in the last four innings - capped by a three-run bottom of the eighth - to beat IKM-Manning 8-7 Thursday at Logan. The Bulldogs (16-8) advanced to Thursday night’s tournament championship game and lost 8-0 to sixth-ranked (3A) Treynor.

 HARLAN -- Longtime Harlan Community assistant baseball coach Mark Vande Berg was recognized on the field prior to the Cyclones’ June 24 home game vs. Atlantic and received a plaque for his 29 years of service to the program. Vande Berg, who retired from teaching in the Harlan Community School District this past May, is in his 29th and final season as an assistant coach for HCHS.

 AREA (June 24) -- The AHSTW and IKM-Manning baseball teams both bowed out in the quarterfinal round of last Monday’s Western Iowa Conference Tournament. The seventh-seeded Vikings lost their quarterfinal game 4-0 at second-seeded Underwood, managing just two hits - singles by Clayton Akers and Blake Holst - off Eagle pitchers Landon Nelson (five innings) and Nick Ravlin.

 HARLAN (June 24) -- It’s a Senior Night that Morgan Schaben won’t soon forget. Harlan Community’s lone senior (or junior) on the softball roster, Schaben pitched a three-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts and drove in all three of her team’s runs here Monday night as the Cyclones topped Atlantic 3-0 to take a firm grip on first place in the Hawkeye Ten and halt a dry spell against one of their chief conference rivals. HCHS had lost six straight m

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (June 25) -- Morgan Schaben’s fifth-inning two-run homer helped put the finishing touches on Harlan Community’s 7-0 softball win at Lewis Central Tuesday afternoon. The game actually reached the bottom of the sixth before being halted by rain, so the score and statistics reverted back to the last full inning, which was the fifth. HCHS (21-5 overall, 14-1 Hawkeye Ten) pulled away with three runs each in the fourth and fifth inni

 HARLAN (June 24) -- The Harlan Community baseball team fell victim to a big upset Monday night at Jim Goeser Field, losing to Atlantic 3-2. The Trojans (3-12 overall, 2-12 Hawkeye Ten) scored the go-ahead run on Nile Petersen’s bases-loaded slow roller past the mound in the top of the seventh, then escaped a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the inning to pick up just their third win of the season.

 UNDERWOOD (June 25) -- It’s not an official Western Iowa Conference Softball Tournament unless IKM-Manning is playing on Thursday. Despite a season with more downs than ups so far, the seventh-seeded Wolves rose to the occasion for Tuesday’s WIC quarterfinal game at No.

 UNDERWOOD (June 25) -- Logan-Magnolia built an early 4-0 lead and continued to pull away from AHSTW for a 9-1 victory in Tuesday’s Western Iowa Conference Softball Tournament quarterfinal at Underwood. The fifth-seeded Panthers improved to 10-11 and advanced to Thursday’s semifinal and championship rounds in Logan.

    COUNTY -- Nine young women are in the running to be crowned Shelby County Fair Queen this week.    Coronation will take place Thursday evening, July 11 in the show ring at the fairgrounds at 8 p.m. The new queen will reign over the Shelby County Fair as well as represent the county at the state fair in August.