ATLANTIC -- Parity is the name of the game this season in the Class 3-A, Substate 8 boys basketball bracket. While top seeds Atlantic and Glenwood both stood at 15-5 going into Thursday night’s final games of the regular season, four other squads - Harlan Community, A-D-M, Carroll and Creston - all had identical win totals of 11. Postseason tournament play begins Monday night as the substate is split into two district sites.

 LOGAN -- In a game that looked and felt much more like a regional final than the quarterfinal round that it was, IKM-Manning and Logan-Magnolia needed four extra minutes to decide Tuesday’s win-or-go-home rubber match between Western Iowa Conference rivals. In the end - following six ties, three lead changes and a wild finish to regulation - Lo-Ma scored first and led throughout overtime despite the lack of a made field goal, hitting 9-of-15

 ELK HORN -- Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton cruised into the Class 1-A regional semifinals here Tuesday night, blowing out Woodbine 73-15 in a Region 1 girls’ quarterfinal. The third-ranked Spartans led 25-11 after one quarter and allowed just four points the rest of the way. They outscored the Tigers 22-1 in the second quarter and played the entire second half with a running clock. 

 GREENFIELD -- The AHSTW girls battled gamely but came out on the short end of a 41-36 score in Tuesday’s Class 2-A regional quarterfinal game at Nodaway Valley.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- The Harlan Community girls bowling team saved its best team score of the season for the final dual meet last Tuesday (February 7), knocking down 2,192 total pins to beat both Lewis Central (1,910) and St. Albert (1,664) at Thunderbowl. HCHS finished with a dual record of 5-6. The Cyclone boys, meanwhile, went 1-1 on the day to finish 8-3 for the season.

    HARLAN -- Marlene Elsie Buthmann, 77, Harlan, died February 21 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services will be held Friday, Feb. 24 at 10 a.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan with burial in the Oak Hill Cemetery at Irwin at 1:30 p.m.  Visitation was held Thursday, Feb. 23 from 3-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 5-8 p.m.

    HARLAN -- Elmer Wageman, 92, Harlan, died February 3 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services will be held Saturday, Feb. 25 at 11 a.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Defiance with burial in the Sts. Peter and Paul Cemetery at Defiance.  A wake service will be held Friday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.  Visitation is Friday from 5-8 p.m.

    SHELBY -- William and Katherine Barrett of Shelby will mark their 50th wedding anniversary on February 25. They plan to celebrate with their family.    Their family includes Galen and Wendy Barrett, Crescent; Traci Miner and Shannon Bladt, Gilbert, IA; and four grandchildren.

    HARLAN -- The Harlan FFA Chapter will celebrate National FFA Week, Feb. 18-25. This year’s theme is Transform and it embraces more than 85 years of FFA traditions while looking forward to the organization’s future. More than half a million members participated in National FFA Week activities at local, state and national levels.