WEST DES MOINES -- Area graduates Drew Voge of Harlan Community and Rudy Herrera of AHSTW both played for the victorious West squad after being selected for the 2018 Iowa High School All-Star Soccer Game on Saturday, June 16. Also known as the East-West All-Star Cup, the game was played at Valley Stadium and hosted by the Des Moines Menace of the Premier Development League, with support from Soccer Master and the Iowa High School Soccer Coach

 HARLAN (July 14) -- It’s not easy racking up 14 strikeouts in five innings, but Harlan Community junior ace Brett Sears just kept on missing bats during Saturday night’s Class 3A, District 15 baseball semifinal at Jim Goeser Field. Sears mowed down 14 of the 19 Carroll batters he faced and the Cyclone hitters eventually got to Tiger lefty Nick Haberl in an 11-1, five-inning win pushed back 24 hours due to rain.

 COON RAPIDS (July 12) -- For four innings on Thursday, pitcher Alex Lingle and IKM-Manning were able to stay away from the big inning defensively and hang with Audubon in a Class 1A district baseball semifinal. Unfortunately for the Wolves, when momentum started to swing the way of the Wheelers, a 1-0 game quickly snowballed into an early finish. Putting 12 of its last 13 batters on base safely, Audubon plated five runs in the fifth and four

 HARLAN (July 11) -- The Harlan Community baseball team closed the books on another outstanding regular season here Wednesday night, beating Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson 8-3 as Brett Sears homered twice and Logan Klaassen pitched a complete game. Now the fun part begins as the number one-ranked Cyclones (28-3) gear up for a potential run to their eighth consecutive State Baseball Tournament as the top seed in Class 3A, Substate 8. Harlan’s

 ANITA (July 10) -- For six and one-third innings Tuesday, the tougher the situation was the better Cole Burmeister pitched for Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton. Locked in a district duel with Coon Rapids-Bayard’s Christian Cook, the Spartan junior scored his team’s only run in the third and blanked the Crusaders for six gutsy innings on the mound. Unfortunately for Exira-EHK, Burmeister’s gem went for naught in the end as a high pitch count, some sh

 MADRID (July 10) -- Grant Stracke hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning to give IKM-Manning a 4-0 lead and Jared Johnson pitched a four-hitter Tuesday night as the eighth-seeded IKM-Manning baseball team knocked off top-seeded Madrid 4-3 in a Class 1A district quarterfinal. The Tigers scored three runs off Johnson (one earned) during the fifth and sixth innings but the senior ace was able to close the deal and send the Wolves (8-14) to t

 CLARINDA (July 7) -- The AHSTW baseball season ended in heartbreaking fashion last Saturday night when a two-out error in the bottom of the seventh allowed Shenandoah to score the winning run and beat the Vikings 3-2 in a Class 2A district quarterfinal held at Clarinda. AHSTW took a 2-0 lead in the first inning when a bases-loaded walk/wild pitch allowed both Joel Sampson and Sam Porter to score.

    HARLAN -- Patricia Ann Frazier, 92, Harlan, died July 7 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    A celebration of life was held Thursday, July 12 at 10 a.m. at C.G. Therkildsen Center in Harlan.    Frazier is survived by son Dan (Deanna) Frazier of Belmond; daughter Diane (Keith) Manlove of Rochester, MN; sister Marilyn Smith of Urbandale; and four grandchildren.    Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan was in charge of arrangements.

    ELK HORN -- Julia Frances Peterson, 94, Elk Horn, died July 8 at the Salem Lutheran Home.    Services were held Thursday, July 12 at 11 a.m.