AVOCA (July 13) -- A five-run first inning provided more than enough support for junior pitcher Clayton Akers here Saturday night as AHSTW opened the Class 1A district baseball tournament with an 8-0 quarterfinal victory over Fremont-Mills. Akers (4-3) pitched six scoreless innings in just 63 pitches, allowing five hits, walking none and striking out four.

 COON RAPIDS (July 13) -- Trailing 5-1 early on, the IKM-Manning baseball team rallied to keep its season alive here Saturday with a 7-6 win over Ar-We-Va in a Class 1A district quarterfinal. The game ended in bizarre fashion in the bottom of the seventh as the Rockets threatened to tie the score or win.

 HARLAN (July 12) -- Brett Sears homered and pitched five strong innings on Friday as the Harlan Community baseball team snapped a quick two-game losing skid with a 10-2 home win over Le Mars. Sears (7-1) allowed three hits and two runs (one earned) in his five-inning stint against the Bulldogs (12-15), striking out eight, walking one and hitting a batter.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (July 11) -- The Harlan Community baseball team was unable to rally back from an early 7-1 deficit at St. Albert Thursday night and lost an 11-6 decision in both teams’ Hawkeye Ten Conference finale. HCHS finished 15-5 inside the conference, tying Glenwood for second place behind Lewis Central. St.

 HARLAN (July 9) -- Dallas Center-Grimes broke open a tie game with four runs in the top of the sixth and held off Harlan Community 7-5 in non-conference baseball action last Tuesday night. Trailing 7-2, HCHS rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh before the game ended on Derec Weyer’s hard line drive to shortstop with a runner on base. DC-G (21-10) was led by six-hole hitter Bryce Jermier, who belted a pair of home runs and finis

    HARLAN -- Robert Rold, 85, Harlan, died Wednesday, July 17 at the Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn.    Services are pending at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.
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    MANILLA -- Funeral services for Bernice Barrett, 98, Manilla, formerly of Irwin, will be Saturday, Aug. 17 at 11 a.m. at United Methodist Church in Irwin with burial at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Irwin.    Friends may call after 10 a.m. on Aug. 17 at the church until the time of the funeral.    Barrett died Friday, July 12 at the Manilla Manor Nursing Home.    Ohde Funeral Home in Manning is in charge of arrangements.
 

    PAPILLION, NE -- Delores Mary Monahan, 80, Papillion, NE, died July 13 at Midlands Hospital.    Services were held Thursday, July 18 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary Our Lady of Fatima Church in Portsmouth with burial in the St.

    Photo highlights from the 2019 Shelby County Fair.