Honors keep pouring in for Nebraska City ace pitcher Logan Ehlers, who helped lead the Nebraska City baseball team to the Class B state tournament this spring.

The state track and field meet begins today at Omaha. Follow the performances of local athletes on Twitter.

The Nebraska City baseball team won on Saturday and are already back in action as of Monday morning.

Logan Ehlers and the Nebraska City Pioneers were seeded No. 4 for the Class B state baseball tournament, which begins Saturday in Lincoln.

John Russell of the Pioneer baseball team talks to the News-Press after pitching his team past Yutan in the district tournament Saturday afternoon.
 

The Nebraska City baseball team lost its regular season finale to Blair Thursday, but came back to win its district game against Yutan Saturday afternoon.

Sports fans should take note of Friday’s action in Nebraska City. Track and field, tennis and baseball are all on tap for the weekend.

It came down to the last match, but when the dust cleared, the Pioneer girls’ team found itself one match short with Ralston taking a 5-4 decision in Saturday dual action.

Early shots narrowly missed the mark and No. 1 seed Gretna posted three first half goals on the way to a 5-0 win over the Pioneer boys’ soccer team in first round Eastern Midlands Conference tourney action Tuesday night.

The Nebraska City track and field teams were in action at the Platteview Invite last Thursday.

Greg Stevens, Andy Fedoris and Erin Stukenholtz all had multiple medal efforts for the Knight track teams at the Falls City Sacred Heart Invite on the Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca High School track Tuesday.

Rocket golfer Tim Jensen posted the top varsity scores in a pair of meets at Wildwood Golf Course in Nebraska City last week.

Nebraska City responded to a prior loss to Lincoln Lutheran at the Pius X Invite by winning a rematch at the Pioneers’ home invite on the Wildwood Golf Course last Thursday.

Dylan Heng posted one of the lowest nine-hole rounds ever at Wildwood Golf Course and Clayton Rakes nailed down par as the Pioneer boys’ golf team shot past Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca at home Tuesday night.

The Nebraska City boys' track team endured wet and cold conditions to pick up five medals at the Clarinda Relays last Thursday.