The Bone family has a deep history with Festus Post 253 American Legion baseball.

It's hard to count this Hastings Five Points Bank team out of any game, even against some of the best teams in the Midwest.

CJ Remmenga tosses no-hitter

The Fremont bench was ready to explode. Players were perched on the railing, waiting for the moment where they could rush the field.

Down to its final strike, Fremont First State Bank was in an unfamiliar position: behind the opponent on the scoreboard.

In Wednesday’s first-round loss in the Mid-South Regional tournament, Hastings Five Points Bank stranded 12 baserunners in a 3-2 loss. And after stranding the bases loaded in the second during Thursday’s elimination game, it started to feel like deja vu.

Okla. state champion beats Texas champ in pitcher’s duel

Coming into the Mid-South Regional tournament, Hastings Five Points Bank felt like an underdog. The Chiefs got the host bid, and they didn’t necessarily earn their way into the regional, which made them feel like they had something to prove.

Starting pitching has dominated the three games of the Sodbusters’ five-game series with the Casper Horseheads so far.

Just because Tuesday’s loss officially eliminated the Hastings Sodbusters from the playoff race, it doesn’t mean the season is over.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY — The 20th season of the Great Plains Athletic Conference kicked off Tuesday in South Sioux City at the GPAC Media Day. And with that came the preseason football polls for the conference.

Trevan Lowtharp typically wears a smile across his face, and is the happy-go-lucky type.

OMAHA — Coming off of a heart-wrenching extra-inning loss to Fremont First State Sunday evening, Five Points Bank head coach Kevin Asher wasn’t sure where his group’s heads were at.

OMAHA — Fans from both sides of Sunday’s second round state tournament game constantly raised the intensity of the atmosphere as each inning passed at Creighton Prep, as Hastings Five Points Bank and Fremont First State Bank were locked in perhaps the best game of the tourney.

LINCOLN — Johnson Imperial Homes’ summer ended with a short appearance in the American Legion juniors state baseball tournament at Sherman Field.

Matt Hess has been a workhorse for the Sodbusters.

Too many times Johnson Imperial Homes teams have been in the position where they needed to win just one of two games to reach the state tournament, only to see their opponent celebrating at the end of both games.

As the season winds down, it’s looking less and less likely that the Hastings Sodbusters will make the playoffs for the second straight season.

Delay in game doesn’t bother pitchers, as both starters toss gems

Johnson Imperial Homes left too many men on base Sunday in its 3-1 loss to Kearney in the Class A, Area 7 juniors tournament to win, head coach Blake Marquardt noted after the game. And for the first four innings at Duncan Field Monday, the Braves looked destined for the same result.

After a hard-fought 1-0 win over North Platte on Saturday, Johnson Imperial Homes found itself one victory shy of clinching a spot in the junior American Legion Class A, Area 7 finals.

The Johnson Imperial Homes junior American Legion baseball team got off to a hot start in the Class A, Area 7 tournament on Friday. Patience at the plate and timely hits jolted the Hastings offense, while Pierce McVicker and Trevor Sullivan shut down the opponent from the mound.

Duncan Field was a hot, muggy, swamp full of sweat, water, and, of course, some beer Thursday night.

The Expedition League all-star break has arrived, but it’s well past the midpoint of the season.

The box score of Tuesday’s Johnson Imperial Homes game may look a little more like one from an all-star event than a typical seven-inning contest. The Braves sent six hurlers to the mound, each tossing about an inning’s worth of work.

The Johnson Imperial Homes junior American Legion baseball team experience two very different styles of walk-off wins on Wednesday night. In the nightcap, it was Beau Dreher delivering the game-winning hit to seal an 8-0 victory over Lincoln Southeast in five innings, due to the run-rule. Bu…

Duncan Field played host to the Cornhusker League All-Star Game on Tuesday, featuring some of the best players in the state. The American All-Stars blew the game open in the third inning with a six-run frame and their pitching held the National All-Stars in check en route to a 13-4 victory.

There were more fireworks outside of Duncan Field’s brick walls than inside them this July 4th.

Seven years ago, Sara Knaub — then Sara Wissing — won the women’s division of the Five Points Bank Open with a score of 144. That was her second consecutive championship in the event, and the score still to this day marks the lowest the tournament has seen in the Ladies Flight. That year als…

Coming off of a tough extra inning loss at Kearney, the Johnson Imperial Homes junior American Legion baseball team took out any leftover frustration on Lincoln North Star Friday.

There will be a new first-place finisher in the Championship Flight of this year’s Hastings Open, which was renamed from the Tribland Open after the tournament expanded the eligibility area from which golfers can compete.

Hastings Five Points Bank had 13 hits, all singles, in game one of Thursday’s doubleheader with Norfolk. The Chiefs won 8-0.

The College World Series is officially over after Vanderbilt defeated Michigan to win the title at TD Ameritrade in Omaha Wednesday.

Many times, tough opponents or big games will make a coach sleep deprived. But for Johnson Imperial Homes head coach Blake Marquardt, it wasn’t Tuesday’s scheduled doubleheader that kept him awake, it was his newborn.