HARLAN -- Harlan Community senior defensive end Jake McLaughlin recently made his verbal commitment to play football at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls starting in the fall of 2019.

 PORTSMOUTH (July 29) -- Top-seeded Council Bluffs plated three runs in the bottom of the first and cruised to an 11-1, seven-inning win over Portsmouth in Sunday’s championship game of the Iowa Western Baseball League Tournament. Council Bluffs outhit Portsmouth 13-6 and capped the scoring with a five-run fifth inning. Matt Brown led C.B. with three hits, including a home run.

 IOWA CITY -- Harlan Community seniors Jared Moser and Ryan Doran will play for head coach Steve Daeges one last time this weekend as part of the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association All-Star Series at Duane Banks Field in Iowa City. Moser, a catcher, and Doran, a first baseman, have been selected to play for the Small Schools West Squad, with Daeges serving as the head coach.

 DES MOINES (July 31) -- Class 3A state runner-up Harlan Community had three players recognized on the 2018 All-State Baseball teams released Tuesday by the Iowa Print Sports Writers Association. HCHS junior pitcher Brett Sears and senior first baseman Ryan Doran were both named to the 3A first team while senior outfielder Nick Foss was a second-teamer. All three players have contributed to the Cyclones’ four-year run of state title game appea

 DES MOINES (July 28) -- With its top two pitchers unavailable, a lot of things had to go right for Harlan Community to have a shot in Saturday’s Class 3A state title game vs.

 The 2018 Harlan Community baseball team added to a growing trophy case last week, making the program’s eighth consecutive state tournament appearance and reaching the championship game for the fourth year in a row, ending with an 11-1 loss to Davenport Assumption on Saturday.

 DES MOINES (July 27) -- Over the years, Harlan Community has dealt with its fair, or unfair, share of tough breaks while playing in the State Baseball Tournament at Principal Park. On Friday afternoon, the Cyclones may have got one back. Clinging to a one-run lead in the top of the seventh - the tying and lead runs on base for Waverly-Shell Rock - HCHS finished the game with a unique and fortunate double play to hold off the Go-Hawks 7-6 in a

 DES MOINES (July 24) -- Some might argue that Harlan Community was darn lucky to win Tuesday night’s Class 3A state baseball tourney quarterfinal vs.

 DES MOINES (July 27) -- The Class 3A state baseball semifinals will include three of the same teams from a year ago when action commences late Friday morning at Principal Park. At 11:00 a.m., top-ranked and second-seeded Harlan Community (32-3) will face this year’s newcomer, seventh-ranked and sixth-seeded Waverly-Shell Rock (34-7).

 DES MOINES (July 24) -- You know you’ve got a deep state tournament field when teams with the recent baseball tradition of Solon and Waverly-Shell Rock aren’t even seeded in the top four. That’s the type of competition Harlan Community will be up against this week when the Class 3A State Baseball Tournament gets underway at Principal Park in Des Moines. Of the eight teams in 3A, seven have combined to win 21 state championships, led by Davenp

Assumption, Davenport (31-10, #1 seed)State Appearance: 16th.State Tournament Record: 34-5.Last Appearance: 2017 (1st).State Titles: 10 (1982, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2004, ‘06, ‘08, ‘14, ‘17).State Runner-Up: 3 (2002, ‘07, ‘13).Final IBCA Ranking: 3rd.2018 Tourney Trail to Des Moines:-- Assumption 10, Maquoketa 0 (6)-- Assumption 1, Dubuque Wahlert 0-- Assumption 4, Central DeWitt 2Coach: Billy Argo (537-201).

 CEDAR FALLS (July 21) -- It was a remarkable eight-day stretch for recent Harlan Community graduate Nick Foss. But then again, Foss has been a remarkable Cyclone student-athlete for some time now. Doing his best Bo Jackson impersonation, Foss split time between baseball and football - Harlan and Cedar Falls - last week and capped it off with an impressive performance in the 2018 Iowa Shrine Bowl All-Star Football Classic. Foss, who finished h

 DES MOINES -- Harlan Community seniors Keaton Jones and Drew Voge were both named to at least one all-state boys soccer team in June after leading the Cyclones to a 16-3 season and an appearance in the Class 2A substate finals. Jones was named to the Des Moines Register’s All-Iowa Boys Soccer Team (Class 2A) as the goal keeper and was invited to attend the Des Moines Register Sports Awards on June 23 at Wells Fargo Arena.

 HARLAN (July 18) -- Not so long ago, Brett Sears and the words pitch efficiency didn’t always belong in the same sentence. It’s hard to argue with Sears’ 27-3 career record for the Harlan Community baseball team, but sometimes striking out a lot of hitters requires throwing a lot of pitches. Not on Wednesday. Putting together one of the best outings of his four-year varsity career, the Cyclone junior ace outdueled Winterset sophomore Casey Yo

 HARLAN (July 16) -- On a night when Harlan Community committed three throwing errors and four all told, the biggest defensive play of the game involved two perfect relays that stifled Denison-Schleswig’s rapidly-gaining momentum. Three-run home runs by seniors Jared Moser and Nick Foss also proved pivotal as the top-ranked Cyclones held off a late-game Monarch charge to win 10-5 in Monday’s Class 3A, District 15 baseball final at Jim Goeser F