WESTPHALIA -- Terry and LaVonne Schulte of Westphalia will celebarate their 50th wedding anniversary on Sunday, July 28 beginning with an 11 a.m. Mass in their honor at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Westphalia. A reception and luncheon will follow at the parish center. Friends and relatives are invited to attend.

 RED OAK (June 27) -- Riley Kohles pitched four innings of shutout ball in game one and Derec Weyer hit his first varsity home run with six RBI in the night cap Thursday as Harlan Community swept Red Oak 14-3 and 17-9 in a Hawkeye Ten baseball doubleheader. The first game lasted just five innings as the Cyclones put together a five-run third and a six-run fifth to take a 14-0 lead.

 SIOUX CITY (June 26) -- It wasn’t the best outing of his career, but Brett Sears will take the ‘W.’ Sears labored through four innings to tie the school record for pitching wins last Wednesday night as the Harlan Community baseball team rallied for a 10-7 victory at Sioux City West. HCHS erased an early 5-0 deficit with six runs in the top of the second inning and broke a 6-6 tie with three runs in the fourth, hitting six doubles among 14 tot

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (June 29) -- Just two years removed from a 12-22 season, the Harlan Community softball team clinched a Hawkeye Ten Conference championship on Saturday morning with a 14-0, four-inning win at St. Albert. HCHS blew the game open with seven runs in the third and five more in the fourth, improving to 24-6 overall and 17-1 in the Hawkeye Ten with two league games to go (July 8 at Denison).

 RED OAK (June 27) -- The Harlan Community softball team swept a doubleheader at Red Oak Thursday night by scores of 8-0 and 8-4. Morgan Schaben belted a pair of home runs in game one and also pitched a four-hit shutout with one walk and 13 strikeouts, improving her record to 18-6. Tianna Kasperbauer (5-0) pitched game two, allowing eight hits and three earned runs with seven strikeouts and one walk.HCHS 8, Red Oak 0 Aurora Miller, Schaben, Ka

 HARLAN (June 26) -- Sioux City East snapped the Harlan Community softball team’s five-game winning streak last Wednesday night with a hard-fought 2-1 win over the Cyclones at H.

 LOGAN (June 27) -- In a wild Western Iowa Conference Softball Tournament semifinal, Riverside rallied three times in the last four innings - capped by a three-run bottom of the eighth - to beat IKM-Manning 8-7 Thursday at Logan. The Bulldogs (16-8) advanced to Thursday night’s tournament championship game and lost 8-0 to sixth-ranked (3A) Treynor.

 HARLAN -- Longtime Harlan Community assistant baseball coach Mark Vande Berg was recognized on the field prior to the Cyclones’ June 24 home game vs. Atlantic and received a plaque for his 29 years of service to the program. Vande Berg, who retired from teaching in the Harlan Community School District this past May, is in his 29th and final season as an assistant coach for HCHS.

 AREA (June 24) -- The AHSTW and IKM-Manning baseball teams both bowed out in the quarterfinal round of last Monday’s Western Iowa Conference Tournament. The seventh-seeded Vikings lost their quarterfinal game 4-0 at second-seeded Underwood, managing just two hits - singles by Clayton Akers and Blake Holst - off Eagle pitchers Landon Nelson (five innings) and Nick Ravlin.