LOGAN (June 15) -- Wyatt Wohlers laced a game-winning RBI single to the left field fence Friday night, lifting Logan-Magnolia past the IKM-Manning baseball team 5-4 in a back-and-forth Western Iowa Conference game. The Wolves, who led 1-0 early, tied the game at 2-2 in the fifth and 4-4 in the sixth but couldn’t get over the hump in falling to 3-10 overall and 3-8 in the WIC.

 IRWIN (June 14) -- Exactly one week after IKM-Manning’s Joy Gross secured career coaching win number 700, daughter Peyton Gross notched a big milestone of her own Thursday night at the Irwin softball diamond. Pitching 11 quality innings and helping her own cause with five hits at the plate, Gross earned career wins 99 and 100 as the 2nd-ranked Wolves swept Riverside in a doubleheader, 10-0 and 11-1. Gross pitched a six-inning one-hit shutout

 FORT DODGE (June 15-16) -- Close losses and low-scoring games were a common theme for the Harlan Community softball team this past weekend as the Cyclones finished 16th at the Fort Dodge Invitational with an 0-4 record. HCHS lost to 10th-ranked (5A) Fort Dodge 6-1 Friday in a first round game shortened to five innings due to a time limit.

 GLENWOOD (June 14) -- Harlan Community ran its baseball winning streak to 11 games on Thursday night, sweeping a doubleheader at Glenwood by scores of 12-11 and 11-1 (five innings) to improve to 13-2 overall and 12-0 in the Hawkeye Ten Conference. Game one featured an 18-run fifth inning in which HCHS broke a 2-2 tie with 10 runs in the top half and the Rams answered right back with eight.

 GLENWOOD (June 14) -- Harlan Community took one game from 15th-ranked (Class 4A) Glenwood and nearly pulled off a sweep last Thursday night, instead settling for a Hawkeye Ten Conference softball doubleheader split. HCHS dominated the first game 10-1 before losing the night cap 5-4 in nine innings.

HOUSTON, TX – Margaret (Nielsen) Metcalf, 85, died March 22 in Houston.Family and friends are welcome to attend the memorial service at the gravesite on Saturday, June 23 at 2 p.m.

HARLAN -- Daniel Coy Emerson Riley, 25, Harlan, died June 18 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Mass of Christian Burial will be held Saturday, June23 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan. Riley is survived by mother Barbara (Kivland)Riley of Harlan and father Brian Riley of Harlan; and sisters Shannon Riley of St. Petersburg, FL and Abigail Riley of Nashville, TN.

HARLAN -- June E. Schaben, 62, Harlan, died Monday, June 18 in Omaha. A memorial Mass will be held Tuesday, June 26 at 11 a.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Defiance with burial of ashes in the St. Peter’s Catholic Cemetery in Defiance. Family will greet friends Tuesday from 10-11 a.m. at the church.

    AVOCA -- Douglas Keith Hester, 60, Avoca, died May 31 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.    Services will be held Friday, June 22 at 11:30 a.m. at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Walnut.  Visitation is Friday from 9:30-11 a.m. at the church.    Hester is survived by brothers Richard Hester of Walnut and James (Roxanne) Hester of Avoca.    Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Avoca is in charge of arrangements.