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 ATLANTIC -- Eleven wins, no losses and eight instances of the 10-run mercy rule. Victory won’t come this easy all summer long for the Harlan Community baseball team, but the top-ranked Cyclones are certainly enjoying their current ride to start the 2017 season. HCHS improved to 8-0 in the Hawkeye...
 HARLAN -- A third Hawkeye Ten loss in as many nights dropped the Harlan Community softball team to 1-4 in conference play and 4-8 overall on Wednesday, but the Cyclones are truly not far away from sporting the inverse of those win-loss records. In Monday’s home game vs. Lewis Central, the score...
 IKM-Manning pitcher Peyton Gross (27) tags out Logan-Magnolia’s Reanna Rife at home plate for the third out of the fifth inning with the Wolves clinging to a 4-3 lead. Rife attempted to score on a pitch that got past catcher Zoey Melton, but Melton was able to get the ball to Gross for the tag. The Wolves won the game 8-7. (Photos by Mike Oeffner)
 LOGAN -- It wasn’t easy, but the IKM-Manning softball team snapped Logan-Magnolia’s 13-game winning streak Tuesday night with an 8-7 road victory over the 9th-ranked (2-A) Panthers. Trailing 3-2 after three, the Wolves scored two runs each in the fourth, sixth and seventh innings before holding...
 IKM-Manning shortstop Sam Gross (25) catches the final out of Tuesday’s win at Logan-Magnolia as center fielder Alex Heiman looks on.
 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...
 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...
 HCHS catcher Madison Schumacher attempts to tag out Lewis Central’s Shelby Hatcher at the plate as Cyclone pitcher Emily Brouse (left) looks on. Hatcher was safe on the play during the Titans’ four-run seventh inning at H. Jack Field Monday.
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...
 Harlan Community graduate Marcus Klein competes in the pole vault as part of his sixth-place finish in the decathlon at the NJCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in May. (Photos contributed)
 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. Marcus is the son...
 HCHS eighth-grader Kaylie Briggs slides safely into third base following a Creston wild pitch during game two of Thursday’s doubleheader at H. Jack Field. Briggs went 3-for-4 with two RBI and had three of the Cyclones’ 10 stolen bases in a 10-0 win.
 HARLAN -- Following a rocky performance in game one of Thursday’s twin bill vs. Creston, the youthful Harlan Community softball team put together its most complete effort of the season in game two, beating the Panthers 10-0 in five innings to salvage a split. Starting six eighth-graders in the...
 SERGEANT BLUFF -- Slugging two home runs and 10 total hits off Harlan Community pitcher Emily Brouse, the Sergeant Bluff-Luton softball team also took advantage of four HCHS errors to beat the Cyclones 13-3 in five innings last Wednesday. The Warriors, who moved up to eighth in Thursday’s Class 4-...
 HCHS freshman Connor Bruck pitched two scoreless innings of relief in Thursday’s game one victory against Creston, earning his first win of the year.
 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community baseball team extended one of its best starts in school history on Wednesday and Thursday nights, sweeping Hawkeye Ten doubleheaders against Shenandoah and Creston to improve to 9-0 overall and 6-0 in the conference. All four games were decided by the mercy rule. ...

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