AUDUBON -- Gage Clay and Spencer Symanowicz both earned gold medals for AHSTW to lead the area charge at Tuesday’s Audubon Boys Early Bird Track Meet. No team scores were kept on the day. Clay easily bested a field of 40 sprinters to win the 200-meter dash in 23.75 seconds after placing second in the 100 - just .01 behind Audubon’s Jake Mulford.

 HARLAN -- Three members of the Harlan Community bowling team achieved a program first on Monday, March 21, when Bailey Portwood, Elizabeth Stroud and Josh Grote signed letters of intent to join the bowling squad at Morningside College in Sioux City. All three Cyclone bowlers have been varsity contributors since the program came into existence during their freshmen year in 2012-2013.

 HARLAN -- Seven members of the Harlan Community bowling teams received All-State, All-District and/or Academic All-State recognition from the Iowa Girls Coaches Association following the season.All-State: The Cyclones’ All-State bowlers include seniors Bailey Portwood (Class 1-A girls Second Team) and Max Langenfeld (1-A boys Second Team), who were both ranked first out of six individuals on the Second-Team lists.

 GRIMES -- Kyle Juhl took MVP honors for the winning boys team, Kyle Wagner was a 3-point contest champion and Jordyn Moser made the all-tournament team as part of the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Games held Friday, March 25 at Dallas Center-Grimes. Juhl and Moser (Harlan Community) and Wagner (IKM-Manning) played in two games each at the annual event featuring many of the state’s top senior basketball players.

 STATE -- The Iowa Girls Coaches Association selected four area players to its 2015-2016 All-State Basketball teams announced earlier this month. The list includes: Harlan Community seniors Taylor Frederick (First Team) and Jordyn Moser (Second Team) in Class 4-A; IKM-Manning sophomore Kia Rasmussen (Third Team) in Class 2-A; and Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton sophomore Sophia Peppers (Third Team) in Class 1-A.

 STATE -- Three area coaches have been honored by the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association as regional or substate coaches of the year after guiding their teams to the state tournament during the 2015-2016 season. Exira-EHK head coach Tom Petersen (Class 1-A, Region 7) and Harlan Community head coach Zach Klaassen (Class 4-A, Region 1) repeated as girls’ regional coaches of the year while IKM-Manning head coach Keith Wagner (Class 1-A, Substate

    SHELBY -- Donald Bladt, 95, Shelby, died Sunday, April 10 at the Avoca Specialty Care Center in Avoca.    Services are pending at Pauley Jones Funeral Home.    For more information contact the funeral home at 1-800-831-6805 or visit www.pauleyjones.com.

    HARLAN -- Irma White, 97, Harlan, died Sunday, April 10 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services are pending at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.    She is survived by daughter Sharon (John) Davenport of Victoria, MN and son John (Lynne) White of Jacksonville.    For more information contact the funeral home at 1-800-831-6805 or visit www.pauleyjones.com. 

    NEVADA -- Services are pending for Dorothy Volkens, 85, Nevada, formerly of Shelby, at the Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Shelby.    Volkens died Sunday, April 10 in Nevada.  She is survived by daughter Jean (Glee) Goodner of Cambridge and son David (Sharon) Volkens of Williamsburg.