LOGAN -- Cody Chapman allowed two unearned runs in the first inning before putting up zeros the rest of the way Tuesday night as the IKM-Manning baseball team rallied past Logan-Magnolia for a 4-2 win. Chapman (1-0) finished with a two-hitter, walking four and striking out six in a complete game effort.

 MONDAMIN -- Alex Amaral, Cole Burmeister and Drew Buckholdt combined on a solid pitching performance Wednesday night as the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton baseball team improved to 7-0 on the season with 4-1 win at West Harrison. Amaral pitched the first four innings of the contest, Burmeister pitched two innings and Buckholdt finished up in the seventh. The Spartans scored two runs in the first inning and added single tallies in the third and the

Lewis Central 5, HCHS 1 HARLAN -- Held hitless for four innings and scoreless for five, Lewis Central tied the game with a run in the sixth and scored four in the top of the seventh to beat the Harlan Community softball team 5-1 Monday night for its eighth consecutive win. HCHS squandered a golden opportunity to take the lead in the bottom of the sixth when it loaded the bases with nobody out but failed to score against LC ace Ashtyn Miller, w

 HUTCHINSON, KAN. -- Marcus Klein capped a banner freshman season for the Iowa Western Community College track team by placing sixth in the men’s decathlon at the 2017 NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, held May 18-20 at Gowans Stadium in Hutchinson, Kansas.

 PORTSMOUTH -- Jean Marie Schechinger, 90, Portsmouth, died June 3 at Montclair Nursing and Rehabilitation.    Services will be held Saturday, June 10 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary Our Lady of Fatima Church in Portsmouth with burial in the St. Mary’s Cemetery at Portsmouth.  A rosary will be held Friday, June 9 at 7 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.  Family viewing is Friday from 5-6 p.m.

ELK HORN -- Alice Elizabeth Martinez, 73, Elk Horn, died June 4 at the Salem Lutheran Home.    No services are planned.    Martinez is survived by her son, Richard Straw, of Irwin; daughters Susan (Marc) Holm of Defiance, Vicki (Sher Olson) Straw of Minnesota, and Denise Arnold of Council Bluffs; 10 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.    Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan is in charge of arrangements. 

    HARLAN -- Christian J. Blum, 83, Harlan, died June 5 at Myrtue Medical Center.    Services will be held Saturday, June 10 at 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s of the Assumption Church in Panama with burial in the St. Mary’s Cemetery at Panama.  A rosary will be held Friday, June 9 at 7 p.m. at St. Mary’s Parish Center in Panama.  Visitation is Friday from 4-8 p.m.

    REGIONAL -- A shed and garage on 7th and Broadway Streets caught flame at roughly 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, June 6.    The shed and garage both belonged to Paula Koester. Koester, her nine-month-old baby and her brother were home at the time. No one was injured.    The garage and shed were both engulfed and reduced to rubble. The fire melted siding on the house, closest to the room where Koester and her baby sleep.

HARLAN -- The farmer’s market will sprout up in the northwest corner of the Shopko parking lot on June 10 from 8:30 a.m.